The Cat Ate My Homework

I really have been working on my knitting.  Sometimes.  Renfield and I sat down recently to discuss my lack of progress.  See, he's been very worried that I've been spending too much time knitting with this unforgiving cotton Sugar'N'Cream yarn that I should really save for crocheting.  It's not making me feel very accomplished anyway with how slow going it has been.  I keep telling myself I need the practice that the repetition provides, but honestly I've been scared to get back to my DVD.  I've been afraid that I'm doing something wrong or that I'll have to develop new habits because mine are all screwed up....I just don't want to let Nici down!  Renfield told me I was being a pussy (he'd know), showed me some tricks and smacked me upside the head.  I have photos to prove it.  Before I bombard you with a bunch of kitty photos, I will tell you that I did find out that I apparently do a cable stitch just fine.  Really - I popped in the Nici's DVD and watched the cast on section again, then the knit or cable stitch a few times.  It seems I prefer the English method to the Continental method, but really I'm doing just fine.  I got quite a bit of length on my practice piece out of a little over half of a skein of the cotton yarn, but it's time to set it aside and move on to better yarn, chunkier and a larger guage to both make me feel like I'm making progress and to feel more like a real knitter.  Oh, and Nici says to do this in her instructions.  Commence silly cute photos to distract you from my lack of posts:



The length acheived





Renfield showing technique