Finally! Two Beginnings!

Beginning #1:  My Cream Encore is on the needle-for the first time anyway.  I am cynic enough to know that another beginning-or two- may be required.  I have, however, swatched and swatched and am now certain that this will work for me.

Plymouth Encore

Here it is.  I really like this yarn and this will be the fourth one I have knit.  I may add pictures of them later.

On the circular needle-the only way to knit an afghan-240 some stitches-but when you're done, you're done.

The bottom border in Seed Stitch.  I love the way this stitch behaves.

I am now ready to knit in two hour segments while Miss M. has her gymnastics session.  I am ready, but we'll have to see if I can do it with no major mistakes.  If I can't concentrate well enough to do this then I won't as I dislike repairing errors.


Beginning #2: My audio book setup.
In order to aid my concentration in the above mentioned task I wanted to listen to an audio book.  Yes, really!  Listening to a story will drown out the conversations of the observers also watching the gymnastic sessions.  So....... I asked Beth how I could get setup for that since the library has downloadable books.  Looking at me like I just walked in from the Dark Ages, she told me, "You can listen on your I-Phone".  She had given me this more than a year ago and I had never used it for anything but a photo here and there.

So, she got me setup, showed me how to sync and all that good stuff.  I searched on line for a free book and, just browsing for an instant, found a short story I had read many times as a child.  Yes, I remembered the name of it.  You have to understand we didn't have many books in our house, hardly any on an elementary level, and, certainly, no library to go to.  This story, Missing-Page 13, was in a book of my Dad's and was a mystery.  Dad recommended it and I read it many times-no TV in those days-imagining the forbidden room, cemented up door and secret passage.  Oh, it was a favorite and the first of many mysteries I have enjoyed since.  I listened to it and another whole book by the same author and knitted the above.  I am well prepared for gymnastics on Wednesday.  :)

What a pleasure!  It was absolutely wonderful to knit and enjoy wonderfully descriptive language from a time past, an experience that can be repeated as often as I like with other titles.

The only downside is that Miss M. won't be seeing me actually enjoying  r..e..a..d..i..n..g.  As an ex-reading teacher, I feel bad about that because she doesn't read enough and doesn't get herself engrossed in stories.  I would like to see her anxious to finish a book-she doesn't seem to care how stories she starts end.