Does anyone have any suggestions on learning the knit stitch? I’ve got casting on down (I think), but the instructions I’ve found for the knit stitch so far are baffling me. Presumably, learning the purl afterwards will be less of a pain.
If it helps at all, I think it involves ‘making a loop’ and then somehow pulling this ‘loop’ through a ‘stitch’. Not sure what these terms mean in context, though.
Viscaria
10 years ago
Ugh, LBT, I’m sorry to hear that there’s trauma coming back up for you guys. Is there anything we can do to support you?
Robert, whenever I’m learning new stitches, I find YouTube is a better choice than written instructions because you can see what the instructor is doing. I found this one, but there are others out there:
Lea
10 years ago
I’m sorry LBT. There are hugs here if you want them. ——>HUGS
Thanks for the kind words, guys. Unfortunately, right now, it’s still the waiting game. Repressed material tends to come up in stages:
1. The memory block is moving into conscious awareness. Nightmares, sleeping a lot, general rundown feelings.
2. The memory block is in conscious awareness, but it’s not doing down. Horrible itchy brain feelings, climbing walls, mental constipation, suppressed screaming and weird creepy thoughts playing on loop for no apparent reason. (Last time, it was “Eden burned down.”)
3. The block finally breaks. Much crying, rocking, and reliving of the memory, and complete mental exhaustion for at least a couple weeks.
Right now, I’m still at stage 1, just barely edging into stage 2. I give it at least a week or two before stage 3 takes place. So I still have a lot of irritating time ahead of me.
On the plus side, after this, it might really actually promise for reals be over this time? Maybe?
@ LBT…did y’all find it easier to get the memories back over time? Just wondering. I got two memories back in my early 20’s-the reason they came back so easily?
Not so much what was done, who was doing it. The betrayal level was much less, you see.
In 2011, for whatever reason, the really bad stuff began arriving, has stopped again now.
(Also was allowed to notice the other people in my head…)
(I mean, really, if the rest of the committee decide it’s a bad idea for me to know something, I’ll forget it. I am not entirely in charge of my own thought process. Derp )
At any rate…It’d be damn nice if this is the last of the crap. *crosses fingers*
Hmmm. Depends on the memories. The thing is, we very rarely have any memory blanks. There are more… distortions. Censorings. Enough to get by. It was only with the most recent memory coming up (back in early July) that it became clear that our brain COULD withhold information, and not just emotions.
The general rule for memories coming up is, we have to be stable enough to handle them. This meant that a lot of memories came up within a couple years, but others take a lot longer. The early July memory was something that had taken place over nine years prior; the one that will eventually come will likely be about eleven years old. As we’ve grown more and more safe and stable, more and more dangerous material has come up.
Often, there’s a lot of intermediate steps we have to take before going around dragging up memories. A lot of memories have been getting jogged by us trying to figure out our history. It’s a lot of weird factors at work!
Unimaginative
10 years ago
Blahlistic, thanks! Those kind of exercises are right up my alley.
Unimaginative
10 years ago
@Cloudiah, according to the many, many, many western novels I read as a ‘tween, plains *Indians called horses “God Dogs”.
*When I was a ‘tween, native north americans were all called Indians. If there was already a movement afoot to correct that, I hadn’t heard about it then.
sparky
10 years ago
Lea: I’m so sorry. That sucks.
I think one of the wort lies that depression tells people is that they are worthless and that their friends, family and loved ones would be better off without them. This is a damned lie. Fuck depression, it sucks so bad.
LBT: :(. I hope these are the last bad memories, too. Hugs, if you want them.
Unimaginative, given the alteration in Plains Indians* way of life that horses brought, that is an entirely reasonable thing to call them. Having dogs drag your travois is all right, but a god dog would clearly be an upgrade. And riding a dog is rarely an option.
(Also, can I just say thank you to all the Mammoths who helped teach me that squealing over cute animals is perfectly acceptable regardless of gender? It helped.)
kittehserf MOD
10 years ago
I just looked at the start of that video, and it’s so clear, even without sound. That seems a good sign.
I learned knit stitch backwards, literally. I did what’s called knitting into the back of the stitch, and only found out that’s what it was when I came upon that term and wondered what it meant. 😛
Kim
10 years ago
I don’t remember who recommended The Knick in a thread here, but thank you! I am horrified and fascinated by it.
Knitting? When we were little we were taught to knit at school starting about year 1 or 2. What we knitted for a starter, practice piece was a cotton dishcloth. My 6 year old sister enthusiastically embarked on this new very grown-up endeavour – but her knitting looked super weird, off, strange. Anyone who watched her couldn’t see what on earth she was doing wrong, every movement of needle, yarn and fingers looked exactly right. As it turned out, it was.
It wasn’t long before our grandmother watched her in a different environment. Being so keen, she was knitting once she was in bed for the night. Leaning on one elbow. And then she finished the row she had been knitting – and promptly knitted back the next row without lifting her elbow or turning the work.
She was ambidextrous. Without even noticing it she was, sometimes, knitting one row right-handed and the next one left-handed.
One key thing to remember with knitting and crochet is handedness. If you’re left handed, watching a right-handed tutorial won’t make any sense to you. 🙂
pallygirl
10 years ago
I have a GP appointment for tomorrow afternoon to address the side effects of treatment. My axilla is now a mess, as the top layer of my skin has come off. While I was out today, I bought some cheap batwing tops – why can’t more tops be batwing? I’m trying to avoid seams. 🙁
The pinetarsol soap replacement is working well, it even lathers like soap.
I’m using this for the itching on areas where I still have an epidermis: http://www.healthy.co.nz/product/1157-anti-itch-ointment.html The chemist said that the sesame extract has been used successfully in the treatment of burns victims in hospitals with its regenerative effects. I haven’t looked up any studies but it is giving me relief from the itching and means I can lay off the hydrocortisone cream – which has its own side effects /sigh
Re: therapeutic use of what are generally considered “recreational” drugs
My understanding of drug-related issues changed completely after I got prescribed Adderall and when I picked up the prescription saw that the bottled was labeled “amphetamine salts”.
I immediately felt like I had somehow “gotten away” with something.
Just heard about the Hugo awards. Vox Day had a short story nominated, and it got ranked below No Award. Could have happened to a nicer guy*. John Scalzi has a good account of it on his Whatever blog; it’s SFF insider baseball, but still entertaining.
We Hunted The Mammoth
Does anyone have any suggestions on learning the knit stitch? I’ve got casting on down (I think), but the instructions I’ve found for the knit stitch so far are baffling me. Presumably, learning the purl afterwards will be less of a pain.
If it helps at all, I think it involves ‘making a loop’ and then somehow pulling this ‘loop’ through a ‘stitch’. Not sure what these terms mean in context, though.
Ugh, LBT, I’m sorry to hear that there’s trauma coming back up for you guys. Is there anything we can do to support you?
Robert, whenever I’m learning new stitches, I find YouTube is a better choice than written instructions because you can see what the instructor is doing. I found this one, but there are others out there:
I’m sorry LBT. There are hugs here if you want them. ——>HUGS
Thanks, Viscaria!
Thanks for the kind words, guys. Unfortunately, right now, it’s still the waiting game. Repressed material tends to come up in stages:
1. The memory block is moving into conscious awareness. Nightmares, sleeping a lot, general rundown feelings.
2. The memory block is in conscious awareness, but it’s not doing down. Horrible itchy brain feelings, climbing walls, mental constipation, suppressed screaming and weird creepy thoughts playing on loop for no apparent reason. (Last time, it was “Eden burned down.”)
3. The block finally breaks. Much crying, rocking, and reliving of the memory, and complete mental exhaustion for at least a couple weeks.
Right now, I’m still at stage 1, just barely edging into stage 2. I give it at least a week or two before stage 3 takes place. So I still have a lot of irritating time ahead of me.
On the plus side, after this, it might really actually promise for reals be over this time? Maybe?
…please?
@ LBT…did y’all find it easier to get the memories back over time? Just wondering. I got two memories back in my early 20’s-the reason they came back so easily?
Not so much what was done, who was doing it. The betrayal level was much less, you see.
In 2011, for whatever reason, the really bad stuff began arriving, has stopped again now.
(Also was allowed to notice the other people in my head…)
(I mean, really, if the rest of the committee decide it’s a bad idea for me to know something, I’ll forget it. I am not entirely in charge of my own thought process. Derp )
At any rate…It’d be damn nice if this is the last of the crap. *crosses fingers*
RE: blahlistic
Hmmm. Depends on the memories. The thing is, we very rarely have any memory blanks. There are more… distortions. Censorings. Enough to get by. It was only with the most recent memory coming up (back in early July) that it became clear that our brain COULD withhold information, and not just emotions.
The general rule for memories coming up is, we have to be stable enough to handle them. This meant that a lot of memories came up within a couple years, but others take a lot longer. The early July memory was something that had taken place over nine years prior; the one that will eventually come will likely be about eleven years old. As we’ve grown more and more safe and stable, more and more dangerous material has come up.
Often, there’s a lot of intermediate steps we have to take before going around dragging up memories. A lot of memories have been getting jogged by us trying to figure out our history. It’s a lot of weird factors at work!
Blahlistic, thanks! Those kind of exercises are right up my alley.
@Cloudiah, according to the many, many, many western novels I read as a ‘tween, plains *Indians called horses “God Dogs”.
*When I was a ‘tween, native north americans were all called Indians. If there was already a movement afoot to correct that, I hadn’t heard about it then.
Lea: I’m so sorry. That sucks.
I think one of the wort lies that depression tells people is that they are worthless and that their friends, family and loved ones would be better off without them. This is a damned lie. Fuck depression, it sucks so bad.
LBT: :(. I hope these are the last bad memories, too. Hugs, if you want them.
For anyone who needs some cute:
Here’s a teeny-tiny baby chihuahua
And another one.
Unimaginative, given the alteration in Plains Indians* way of life that horses brought, that is an entirely reasonable thing to call them. Having dogs drag your travois is all right, but a god dog would clearly be an upgrade. And riding a dog is rarely an option.
*Native Americans of the Great Plains region.
*high-pitched squealing* TINY PUPPIES.
(Also, can I just say thank you to all the Mammoths who helped teach me that squealing over cute animals is perfectly acceptable regardless of gender? It helped.)
I just looked at the start of that video, and it’s so clear, even without sound. That seems a good sign.
I learned knit stitch backwards, literally. I did what’s called knitting into the back of the stitch, and only found out that’s what it was when I came upon that term and wondered what it meant. 😛
I don’t remember who recommended The Knick in a thread here, but thank you! I am horrified and fascinated by it.
Knitting? When we were little we were taught to knit at school starting about year 1 or 2. What we knitted for a starter, practice piece was a cotton dishcloth. My 6 year old sister enthusiastically embarked on this new very grown-up endeavour – but her knitting looked super weird, off, strange. Anyone who watched her couldn’t see what on earth she was doing wrong, every movement of needle, yarn and fingers looked exactly right. As it turned out, it was.
It wasn’t long before our grandmother watched her in a different environment. Being so keen, she was knitting once she was in bed for the night. Leaning on one elbow. And then she finished the row she had been knitting – and promptly knitted back the next row without lifting her elbow or turning the work.
She was ambidextrous. Without even noticing it she was, sometimes, knitting one row right-handed and the next one left-handed.
mildlymagnificent, that is So. Cool.
What did her knitting look like?
I have no idea. I was only 7 at the time myself.
Curses!
Well, ambidextrous knitting is definitely a thing. There are even tutorials for it.
http://youtu.be/1jhCV4ZTLrA
One key thing to remember with knitting and crochet is handedness. If you’re left handed, watching a right-handed tutorial won’t make any sense to you. 🙂
I have a GP appointment for tomorrow afternoon to address the side effects of treatment. My axilla is now a mess, as the top layer of my skin has come off. While I was out today, I bought some cheap batwing tops – why can’t more tops be batwing? I’m trying to avoid seams. 🙁
The pinetarsol soap replacement is working well, it even lathers like soap.
I’m using this for the itching on areas where I still have an epidermis: http://www.healthy.co.nz/product/1157-anti-itch-ointment.html The chemist said that the sesame extract has been used successfully in the treatment of burns victims in hospitals with its regenerative effects. I haven’t looked up any studies but it is giving me relief from the itching and means I can lay off the hydrocortisone cream – which has its own side effects /sigh
Re: therapeutic use of what are generally considered “recreational” drugs
My understanding of drug-related issues changed completely after I got prescribed Adderall and when I picked up the prescription saw that the bottled was labeled “amphetamine salts”.
I immediately felt like I had somehow “gotten away” with something.
http://www.robot-hugs.com/signs/
I love Robot Hugs.
Just heard about the Hugo awards. Vox Day had a short story nominated, and it got ranked below No Award. Could have happened to a nicer guy*. John Scalzi has a good account of it on his Whatever blog; it’s SFF insider baseball, but still entertaining.
*That is, almost all of them.