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.

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.

Recovery is progressing...

Was officially released from therapy last week, yay! (never mind that it hurts more this week... heh.) I'm not out of the woods yet, but I have exercises and stuff to do, and once I stop fencing (in a couple of weeks I'll be done, possibly forever) and have less writing so that the irritation goes down, I can maybe start to pick up the needles again. So perhaps you'll be hearing from me again in three or four weeks. We'll see...

Verboten.

So. That forearm/wrist pain? Tendonitis. My athletic trainer has told me not to knit until/unless I hear otherwise from the physical therapist, who I start seeing tomorrow.

Thus, no progress.

If I can't knit it'll be kind of pointless for me to post. So I guess that this is a warning to consider me on an indefinite hiatus (maybe I'll post updates on the hand every now and then...). Hopefully the therapist will tell me that knitting is okay... I'm kind of going crazy right now knowing that I can't do it. Even stockinette is tempting!

Stockinette is boring.

Sorry for no post last week. I was at Notre Dame, fencing. Since it's fencing season, posting may be a little sporadic. I'll tell you now that I probably won't post next week, since I'll be returning from another fencing trip then.

Tasha continues. I'm petrified that my gauge is changing and I'm not noticing, especially since I hadn't knit for like a week and a half before I picked it up again for a few rows last night (no time/energy due to fencing trip, and I was worried about my hand/wrist -- but I'll talk more about that in a moment). The sides are currently about 5 3/4" (OMG I'M PAST THE HALFWAY POINT THANK GOD) -- so in the past two weeks I've actually knit about 3 1/4"... not bad... but I wonder when I got it all done? *sigh* only... lessee... 3 3/4" left. Woooo.

Have I mentioned that stockinette is boring?

In other news, I'm vaguely worried that I'm giving myself a repetitive stress injury, what with fencing plus knitting plus computer plus writing. My wrist/base of thumb/forearm have been kinda sore and stiff or tense for the past two weeks... I got some tension/slight occasional pain in my forearm during knitting starting last fall but it wasn't terrible. This isn't terrible either, but it's more noticeable and much more persistent. Lucky me, I had an appointment with the athletic trainer for tomorrow anyway (bum knee, which funnily enough has been basically fine for the last few months)... I'll ask him about it then (and pray to God that I just pulled something).