Knit (r)elated

Elated - that's how I felt when I saw my friend's completed projects. She, who was proficient with crochet, had never learnt to knit. And now, she has a blanket, 2 teeny sweaters and matching baby caps to her credit. Another friend has now re-caught the knitting bug and has picked up the needles again!

I'm now reading up on how to instruct young children. Anout turned 5 recently and I'm most excited about being able to introduce the craft to her. :)

You know, knitting quite changed my life. It set about a chain of events - first, my shoulders turned sore. The pain ofcourse was a combination of strain of knitting and that which the shoulder bore with daylong 'keyboard-tapping-and-mousing'. This was followed by chiro treatment, which worked very well but did not stop the problem from recurring every so often. This was about the time when I was 'expanding' my knitting horizons, visiting knitting conventions, social knitting groups, wildly studying the online material and generally going berserk with the possibilities of the craft.

To support the chiro's cause, I started working out at the gym 5 times a week. And surprisingly, the shoulder troubles tamed. And how! That just meant that, if I wanted to knit, I had to exercise as well. Really, I didn't mind that. In the end, I was physically more fit and mentally stimulated by the workouts. Who wouldn't love that?

It's funny how things fall into place. Right at this time, the company I work at gifted me an iPod - it was celebration time and every employee got one. A 30GB video iPod at that. I call it 'Gollum'. Installing iTunes opened a new avenue, that of podcasts. Gollum just allowed me to be tuned in to podcasts while I was on the treadmill or the elliptical or pumping (light) weights.

What started as a revisiting of a craft I'd learnt as an eager 12 yr old has taken a life of its own. I'm loving every moment of it! I have about 5 readers to this blog and you know, the number did not decrease while I was on a break; a break that stretched a bit much, I admit! Thanks for sticking around!! :)