u/lotheva

Has anyone else stopped being a savant later in life? As a child I was a ferocious reader. I was reading level 2 step up books when my mom put me in a preschool/Mother’s Day out program at 4 because she was worried about my social skills. I literally read The Count of Monte Cristo in third grade and The Lord of the Rings in 4th. I tore through the classics before high school (except little women. It’s like a collection of stories that don’t really follow each other or make a plot. I’ve tried ten times.)

My adult life? Middle school level books, almost exclusively. I hate romance or sex stories which are prevent in adult fiction. Like maybe if there’s one scene and otherwise the story is very compelling. Oh and I hate war books. Even among the books I read there’s no 150 books a year. It’s like I can hardly find books that interest me anymore. I still have a strong vocabulary, I can still identify all the things in a story (and I’m a reading teacher so that’s important lol), and when I find a good book I lock in for days (or hours) until it’s finished. But I just don’t anymore.

The first picture is my best chicken. I haven’t woven or cut some of the ends yet because I think they’re safe, but want to check. This is my first colorwork, and I know I did a few things wrong already, but want some advice too.

- I didn’t do a gauge swatch because I didn’t want to worry about it during my first colorwork. It actually came out ok, except I didn’t have smaller needles for the ribbing, so that’s a bit loose.

- I thought I’d already done the last dark purple row before I started the top ribbing. I also found a yarn over at the very top and tried to weave it in ok. Ig that’s what happens when you’re knitting and seven kittens come in your lap idk.

- I have been reading about inersia and never learned it was different in the round until now. I tried ( very miserably) to do it on the first few chicken feet and it was bad. Going into this I thought yay I can learn two types of colorwork at once! Big fail lol.

- I didn’t catch my yarn very well at first, and working with 3 strands got a little harder to catch the yarn at the top. Some of the 3 strands shows through a bit when stretched. I could use a bit of practice with that and tension with 3 strands.

So when you do a swatch for colorwork, do you do it in the round and in color? So would you even do that in this project?

Is catching the old color multiple times enough to hold the yarn? I did that with the red - caught it every few stitches to weave it in.

All in all, I’m pretty happy with it, though I’m sure it could be better. I used some old acrylic yarn so I’m not worried about that lol.

Lucky ladies ear warmer (it won’t let me link the pattern properly)

https://ravel.me/clucky-ladies-ear-warmer

Has anyone else lost savant level?