Almost a Scarf

I had the opportunity this weekend to spend time listening to the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. My plan was to take notes while I listened to help me pay attention. After missing the first 30 minutes because I was packing stuff up to be taken to the post office, I decided to try something else instead, and spent most of the remaining 7.5 hours working on this:

This is the scarf that I’ve mentioned before. I started it back in November 2007 when I decided to teach myself how to knit. Here we are, almost a year later, and it’s still not done. After 7 hours of knitting it is pretty close though. I guess it’s time to pull the book and Knitting Help videos back out and figure out how to cast off. Bugga was especially excited to see me working on it and kept asking me if her tail was finished yet.

Here’s what I’ve learned about knitting over the last two days:

1. I either need lots of practice, or I need to learn a faster way of knitting. If people can finish entire projects in the amount of time it took me to get half a scarf done I must be really slow.
2. Knitting makes your finger-tips sore, specifically the left index finger. Will I eventually build up a callus there if I knit often enough? Or am I doing something wrong?
3. It is not very easy to put knitting down when someone knocks on the door, and you’re probably better off waiting to start until after your company arrives.

Overall, it was an inspirational and productive weekend. What did you craft this weekend?

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