May 29, 2007

Sock Progress!!!!

Finally! I can report my normal progress in my sock knitting! I am about half way through the heel flap. If my day is slow today, maybe I'll get it done!

Started "home summer school" with my oldest grand daughter. We really want her to be able to read. She's so used to watch TV to fill her hours and I did really good on keeping it off most of the day. Turned it off by 10 am and it didn't come on again till around 4 pm. I think it was rougher on me than her!

We spent a couple hours working on words with the short a sound. Starfire <--click is probably the most fantastic site for teaching a child to read. I personally think phonetics is the way to learn to read. I know there are other different schools of thought, but this makes the most sense to me.

Anyway, she's running into the typical over achiever frustration. "Everyone else can do it without any effort, I should be able to do it, too." "I can't do it and I'm going to make everyone's lives as miserable as mine is cuz I can't do it." (This is actually a photo of her sleeping, not being frustrated!)

I remember going through the same kind of frustration learning to tie my shoes. I just couldn't understand why I couldn't do it. I'd been shown how and I still couldn't do it. Everyone else could do it.... (See why not being able to make fancy socks is such a drain on me? Everyone else can do it! Accepting shortcomings, even if only temporary, is very hard for me. I used to bulldoze my way through ______ and that generally ruined ______ for me. I never found the enjoyment in doing _____ after learning it that way. Learning to sit down, take a deep breath and try again is not my forte!) Knitting has taught me to do it, but I don't have to like it!

Let's see what I found skipping through the computer cable today:

Here's another click---> Cap'n Jack for Amy! Some of the click--> cutest knitted toys I've every seen! These have to be the click--> definitive Dobby socks if there ever were some! And more socks! Rainbow ones! <--click This is one of the most click-->gorgeous shawls I've ever seen. I have a similar crocheted one

I know the style "stays on" due to the way the front drapes. What's nice about this knitted pattern is it has it's own generator, so you can use any yarn, needles, etc. I can't visualize how it's done, so it may be I need to play with it. (Always looking for an excuse to start something new!)