Knitting

I've picked up my knitting the last couple days. First, I frogged the practice square I was working on. Then I started another practice piece. This piece was going to be a garter stitch scarf. After a while, I decided it was going to be a garter stitch scarf with some stockinette in the middle and garter along the edges. From there, it added some garter stitch sections in the middle of the stockinette for, um, decorative purposes. Then it started some patterns and increasing and decreasing.

The good news is that I can now make knit stitches pretty well -- at least most of the time they no more than twice, nor less than half, the size of the average stitch and they are almost recognizable. My purls -- well -- let's just say my stockinette is usually recognizable as such. I'm having serious tension issues, and they're worse with my purl than with my knit. My stitches at the ends of the row -- particularly the very last stitch -- are very loose. However, by the middle of the row, they're very tight -- the purls almost too tight to work.

I made pasture progress yesterday. The last two posts are cemented and hardening. I won't brace them before tomorrow -- and possibly the next day. I suppose if I get really ambitious, I might hang a gate today.

On the wheel: Pinero -- little or no progress since the last post.
On the needles: Practice piece as described above
On the hook, carder, & skirting board: nothing.

Kim