I’ve been knitting again, and the ball of yarn from which I’m knitting (ball, not skein) developed some tangles in its innards (it’s a commercially wound ball; they do this sometimes.)\u00a0 It was necessary to partially eviscerate the ball (reading into the hole and feeling around and then pulling a hunk out) to untangle it.\u00a0\u00a0 This is remarkably like what’s gone on\u00a0 with the story the past few days, and is a clear sign that my sudden urge to start knitting again was connected to more than hand pain–my brain needed the tactile and musculo-skeletal input.<\/p>\n
As of noon today, several (but not all) of the tangles have loosened up enough to see what’s going on, and two have been completely untangled and laid straight.\u00a0\u00a0 One nasty little knot is still resisting coming loose.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m not yet ready to go back to the actual text (I’m writing in another file and that’s going very rapidly)\u00a0 but should be on it within a week, if it’s like other tangles in the past.<\/p>\n
When untangling yarn, the mass of now-loose yarn in your lap can obscure the work and the needles and remaining problems…that’s where the book is right now.\u00a0\u00a0 The stuff I’ve just “found”–the untangled yarn of the story-world–is heaped up around and in front of the story itself.\u00a0 I need to get it all neatly wound onto bobbins or spindles or other ways of keeping it organized so that when I’m back on book, it will flow freely when it needs to enter the pattern.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (The story, unlike this knitting project, has many many strands of varied colors and textures, which form the more complex pattern of the whole.\u00a0 This is a simple blanket, that will have only two stitches to vary it into two patterns, garter and stockinette.\u00a0 The story is…full of cables, honeycomb, diamond, and many other stitch types, plus the varies yarns.)<\/p>\n
But was very glad to get some of the tangles undone…it’s looking more doable now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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