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.

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!