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Post by pamvan on Apr 8, 2009 0:07:51 GMT
Boy am I into making the squares.... Not only for this wonderful charity, also for my grandsons afghans, course they are 12 inch and then 8 inch ones for afghans for children that are admitted to the hospital or seen in the ER. Think I'll start dreaming of squares? ?
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kyla
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Post by kyla on Apr 8, 2009 1:52:48 GMT
I nearly already do.
You know that fuzzy stage where you are almost asleep, and the craziest things float through your head seemingly of their own accord? well for weeks now the things that float through my head is knitting.
it goes like this, every single time: I have a square on the needles and its halfway done. I am looking really closely at the needles, looking at the next stitch to be picked up. I pick up a stitch, but instead of wrapping the yarn, I just drop the stitch again. It's still on the first needle - the stitch isn't actually gone, it just didn't move anywhere that would be considered productive. This goes on and on, in slow motion nonetheless, and I gradually become more and more frustrated - why can't I just put that yarn around? I have to concentrate really hard and make that yarn loop around the needle, then guide the needle through. i have to slow everything down in my head to snail pace to mentally see that needle make the next stitch.
then it gos on loop, and I can't make the second stitch.
Sometimes I get so annoyed with this that it disturbs the sleepy, fuzzy state and I wake up again. however, it seems that if I can successfully mentally guide that yarn and needles and see in my mind that i have made a couple stitches, I will fall asleep. Why my brain is so concerned about those last few stitches before unconsciousness hits, I am not sure, but apparently I am not allowed to sleep until I make them.
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Post by pamvan on Apr 10, 2009 10:11:05 GMT
LOL I feel that way too...
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jeanne
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Post by jeanne on Apr 16, 2009 11:12:00 GMT
That's quite amusing but it sounds like a great way to get to sleep too. I think it's heart warming that so many of us are so concerned for those little ones and want so much to help them all. Bless you!
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kyla
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Post by kyla on Apr 16, 2009 21:05:47 GMT
The way I used to get to sleep (if my mind was too busy to fall asleep, which it is most of the time,) was to go over my dances really slowly in my head, because I dance competitively and there is always something that needs to be tweaked or changed in order to get that slight upper hand on the rest of the competition. I would run through each dance really slowly, and mentally fix all the little corrections. And then before long I would be asleep.
Besides this helping me to fall asleep, I have also noticed an improvement in my dancing! however I don't imagine that if I mentally knit myself to sleep, it will improve my knitting. Knitting isn't one of those things that commonly needs better elevation or turnout.
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