A small victory

OK, so I have a tendency to overreact or make things more difficult when there's something I don't understand. Multiply that by last night's pounding headache from whatever illness I have. My stupidity and lack of patience were in full bloom.

I feel pretty lousy still today, but thanks to Amanda I got an explanation that got me over the hump. Where I was tripping myself up was in not comprehending how putting the yarn in one place or another while slipping a stitch made a difference.

It's the simplest things, which often don't have explanations, that seem to confuse me. The more complicated stuff is usually laid out in painstaking detail whereas yarn forward and yarn back didn't require any more information. Now that it clicks, of course I see that this is about as easy as it gets.

It helped to have a finished ballband dishcloth on hand. I didn't understand how it was made, but I could examine it to try and figure out the idea at work. Until now I haven't worked with two colors at the same time--I admit that it intimidates me--so this small victory feels like a gigantic step forward.

I didn't choose the colors to match the pattern in the book; they're what I had on hand when I decided to tackle this challenge. I look forward to picking up yarns in other color combinations and, umm, impressing myself. I think I've found the right project for knitting while at the film festival in the coming days.