November 3rd, 2009 
mio The batteries in my camera died a little while ago. Of course, we had more batteries, my camera takes regular AA batteries, but the question was: where are they?
Those of you playing along at home have probably already guessed that they’re still packed! Though, in our own defence, we have finally started to unpack a bit; we’ve found all sorts of useful things, such as clothes, the power cord for the television, and the dishes. No batteries, though.
After much deep and profound brain things inside my head, I decided that we should probably just go ahead and buy some more. The blog was waiting, after all! And it’s not like there’s any such thing as “too many AA batteries”, right? Charles was going to pick some up on his way home from Union Station, where we parted ways; I was off to Hamilton.
While in Hamilton, my Mom told me that there were a couple of “under the bed” storage boxes, well, under the bed in the guest bedroom that were probably mine. I had no idea they were there. We looked inside, and low and behold:
The good news: Charles forgot to pick up batteries.
The bad news: these were not the batteries I was thinking of when I thought of the ones that were packed away. No idea where those are.
Other interesting things I found in the box:
A crochet page-a-day calendar
… from 2007…
And a knitting book:
… that I don’t remember buying, but clearly got it long before I really learned how to knit. Wishful thinking, or psychic vibe? I’ll leave that to the philosophers…
“What do you mean, you’ve learned how to knit??” you ask? Well, first of all, shame on you for not following me on Twitter; if you did, you’d already know about this! Secondly, I thought it was about time.
Longtime readers know that I’ve tried to learn how to knit a few times before, but with little to moderate success; but I was unhappy with how slow it was. I had heard that there were several different ways to knit, and thought that maybe if I tried a different way I’d be more successful. Off to youtube I went, determined to learn how to knit while holding the yarn in my left hand (just like how I crochet!).
Success! I knit a few uninteresting stitches, tried out DPN’s (and was doing alright until I accidentally started going the wrong way…). I tried two colours; and then cables, and then tried this:
That’s after only a couple of days of confident knitting. Booyah!
Er… except the sides flop over…
… but I think I can fix it with crochet. :D
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The curling happens to all pieces that are knit stockinette (very annoying). It’s the way the stiches are formed, the purl side is tighter and pulls the stitches so the curl. There are a few ways you can fight this. One is with a big enough boarder – since yours is curling, it’s not wide enough. Another way is with blocking. That’s they way I’ve seen it fought most of the time. I mean, even for a hemmed edge, if it’s a little hemmed edge, you’re still going to get curling, or a retarded bend above it. Yes, I’ve had this issue. I just block the hell out of whatever it is, and that helps…
Yeah, when I first notice this happening I went panicking over to the knitting board on Craftster and was told my border probably wasn’t wide enough. I’m not ripping it out, and it’s acrylic, so blocking is iffy…
I tried crocheting chains in the back of a swatch I made (the swatch was the same except with no cable) and I think I can fix it that way…. between that, and attaching it to crocheted motifs, I think it’ll be ok…
You know, I’ve never had this problem with crochet! (er… maybe don’t look at the pictures posted in the Zombie Yarn post… heh) ;)
Congratulations on learning to knit! I just figured it out myself back in April, and my story is identical to yours – lifelong crocheter, feeding yarn with my right hand felt WRONG so I went to UTube…I even just completed a cabled scarf a few weeks ago! You’re ahead of me on colourwork, that’s going to be included in my next project.
I found your blog a couple of months ago and have been following you since then. Nice to meet you!