All rising to great place is by a winding stair...

Day Two: 29th March. Skill + 1UP

Look back over your last year of projects and compare where you are in terms of skill and knowledge of your craft to this time last year. 

The more I knit, the more I realize that nothing in this game is linear. My latest challenge is knitting with two circular needles rather than four dpns to which I've been accustomed. Thanks to the Internet, I can access demonstration videos that amplify and clarify what I've learned by reading Cat Bordhi's Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles (Passing Paws Press, 2001). 

curved learning

I've been teaching myself to knit socks on two circular needles, thanks to Cat Bordhi's renowned treatment of the subject:

Like most things worth learning, it doesn't come quickly. Ultimately we hope the struggle will be worthwhile.

I purchased two different #2 circulars so I wouldn't confuse which needles were in play. Unfortunately the metal needles, by a venerable American company whose name I shan't mention (S**** B****) are completely horrible. I've never done this before, but I'm planning to return them to the store. The points are both rough and sharp, painful to work with. Yikes!

Meanwhile, vegetable seedlings grow apace in the greenhouse. Probably spring will arrive sometime before May.

Probably.  We hope.

Molly enjoys hothouse flowers.  She, like her muvver, is skeptical concerning the approach of warmer weather.