Is my ruler growing and shrinking?

Measured today again and, having not done any knitting or ripping, got something a bit under 9". ... so apparently my knitting is being done in an alternate dimension, and also being ripped in an alternate dimension.

Going on a two-day trip to Nantucket with the family tomorrow. Hopefully I can finish the sides and get started on the cable sections on the ferry/in the car/while bumming around various places... hopefully I will also get to visit at least one of the two yarn stores that Google tells me are on the island. (Hopefully I will restrain myself from making major purchases in said stores, being a poor semi-grad student who has plenty of yarn already...)

Also -- remember that scarf from waaaaay back when? The one I was knitting in, like, December? I finally started threading twine (best thing I have) up the sides so that I can block it. I have my own apartment now and my roomate has yet to show up (it's school housing, so I theoretically may not have a roomate), so I should have plenty of space to block it, too. It's kind of boring, though, so it's going relatively slowly.

Yeah, yeah...

Haven't been knitting much (end-of-quarter rush equals both no time and using my hands too much to make knitting a good choice for the breaks I get). I did get two rows done yesterday at Class Day, and somewhere between 2 and 4 (can't remember how many, heh) today at graduation. It's 9" long!!!!! Just another half inch, and then something more interesting to knit...

I've managed a slightly modified technique that seems to take some of the work off of my right wrist, enough to make it more comfortable. Rather than "picking" the yarn with the right-hand needle, I use my left index finger to wrap the yarn around the needle. Of course, this will end up giving me a RSI in my left hand... heh.

Augh.

Knit another couple of rows this week. Am unable to measure at the moment, as I don't have a ruler. But I might have to stop again... arm is really acting up again. So probably no updates for a while, once more. Sigh. Sorry, folks... I know this must be just about the boringest knit blog ever.

My knitting is being done in an alternative dimension!

Two rows since I last posted. It's 7 3/4" long. ...and two rows did NOT add 3/4"... I don't know where all of that length came from, but I'm not going to complain.

One and three-quarter inches left... one and three-quarter inches left... one and three-quarter inches left...

Hand is hurting more. I think it's lack of rest plus tennis plus knitting.

Slow and steady...

I've knit a row or two at each weekly meeting of the writing group in which I participate, but it still hurts me so that's been about it. Right now the sides are 7" long, so I've knit 1/4" in two weeks... just FOUR MONTHS left to go at this rate... argh.

Eeeeensy bit of progress...

Knit about three rows at a writing group meeting. It didn't bother my hand too much at the time, but it was pretty stiff the next day. So, progress.

The work is currently about 6 3/4" long. At some point maybe I'll actually take a picture for you, heh... Anyway, so in 11 weeks I've knit one inch. I guess technically an inch in three weeks, since between January 28 and March 25 I didn't do any knitting. (My God, almost two months... how did I survive? ;) )

Slowly picking it up again...

Knit on Monday when my dad took me to Town Meeting -- probably six rows or so -- and another couple of rows tonight while playing a board game with Jason and his mom. It definitely still aggravates my wrists, and I haven't been icing or even really taking ibuprofen so it's probably going to get worse (although I have DEFINITELY been stretching, and doing my exercises, at least). I'll take it slowly, still -- definitely no in-class knitting this quarter, or anything; probably just a bit snatched here and there when I can. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll have the purse done by midsummer. Sigh.

Back on the horse.

I knit ONE ROW today! :)

Wrist problems have not been fully solved -- it was killing me when I had to do a ton of typing during finals week (worse even though I'd stopped fencing) -- but I'm still working on stretching and am going to try to take it slowly. Maybe a few rows, tops, scattered throughout the day.

Also, there was totally a knitter sitting next to me on one of my planes yesterday! She was making a sweater out of this gorgeous, slightly variegated red yarn. It looked totally edible.