The health of a knitter

As I thumb through my knitting books and magazines looking for the newest yarn and wondering what to knit next.  I am very much aware that I live, for the  most part of the day, in my chair.   I would be content to just exist there never getting up to cook or heaven forbid to clean.  As long as I can order off the Internet at my favorite stores and knit... well I am a happy knitter.  But with the new year and the excessive munching that I have done over the holidays and the fact that no matter how much I love to knit I do have to get into my jeans every morning.....which brings me to the point.  All this knitting and no exercise well....need I say more.  But this is just the tip of the iceberg.  You see no exercise also means that my bones are not doing so well either.  And the 10 minutes a day that you are supposed to spend in the sun for vitamin D well lets just say that is not getting done either.  There is a down side to just sitting and knitting away ones life.  I have made a resolution this year and I am going to keep it.  As soon as the holidays came to an end I threw out the Christmas tree and brought back in the exercise machine.   Now it is not the most flattering piece of equipment in the living room but hay at least I can watch the Today Show and do my work out.   This will improve my tone.  My muscles and my lungs and strength my bones.  The last thing that I want to do is look like I 100 when I am only 46.   

If you do Yoga, run,  or what ever,  just do it it makes for a happier healthier knitter,

Just a quick note the sock is going great!  I have been hard pressed for time today since Jim is returning to Fla. and there are always things to help with like packing and making sure that the cat does not try and smuggle her way into the suitcase.  But during "honey can you print this", and "have you seen my ....." I did manage to get some quick throws in.  This photo does not do the colors justice but know they are truly eye popping.  After all to quote Nathan Lane in "Bird Cage" "one must have a hint of color"  I have encluded a video from You Tube to show the paticular technic that I use for holding the yarn with my left hand.  You get faster results and pay paticular attention to the way she wraps the yarn around her little finger.  This will insure the best tention.  Try this with what ever you knit.  It is ackward at first but once you get it down you won't go back.  

Well it is the finish of the year and the start of a new one. I have started off this year geat, in addition to being thankful for what we as a family have been blessed with this past year I have gotten a fresh bunch of sock yarn from my new favoirt shopping hole. jimmy Beans Wool. I purchased some of the Lorna's laces sock wool. The colors are fantastic. They realy are a delight to feel and look at while you are working. I have also just about finished a pair of socks for a friend of mine. They are looking great. The sock pattern is working out and I believe that I will be able to put some of my own designs on them the next time I knit up a pair. I have two stand by patterns just to give the back bone to the sock and then I add and remove, to make it my own pattern. One of the patterns deals with the fingering weight and the other deals with the sports weight. I will pass those pattern locations on. I have already started my wish list for books that I am needing to increase my knowlage about pattern design. I feel so limited when I knit. I want to be able to call the shots and to be able to fix those shots when they dont come out the way that they did in my head.
Well I am off I have to watch for the post man and finish the other sock. If I set my self by the window then I will be able to do both.



Basic Sock patterns  (for fingering weight)
Basic Sock Patterns (for sports weight)