People can't help but ask, How did you hurt your hands? Well, here's the mitigated, heavily varnished truth: I was training for Tour de Fleece*, feeling stronger by the day. I was pushing myself pretty hard when I hit a banana peel slick. Turns out that the local circus had lost containment on its monkeys at the same time a sensitive delivery of extra-slick experimental bananas were being delivered to a nearby biotech firm. Well, there must have been about a hundred peels right in front of me. Completely unavoidable. I spun out out and flew over the handlebars. All I can say is thank God for the raft of cream pies that cushioned my landing. Twenty clowns piled out of a tiny ambulance, but the best they could do is suggest I rest my hands, knit slowly, and avoid washing dishes.
Kaylee-nomah, made from Kaylee yarn in the Multnomah shawl pattern
(pdf), which is slow-knit friendly.
Beaded Slayer Sox--to be avoided until further notice. (
Buffy Anklets pattern in Noro Kureyon Sock.)
1 mm crochet hook. I honestly had no idea these existed. That's what you use to get beads on Slayer Sox.
*a knitting and spinning event that parallels Tour de France and has actually nothing to do with bicycling. Or pie.
1 mm crochet hook. I honestly had no idea these existed. That's what you use to get beads on Slayer Sox.
2 comments:
Oh, noes! At least you didn't land on your keester or you would have had to cycle standing up the entire way.
I hear that the circus is sending over a solar-powered bike so that you can participate as a not-so-handy hand cyclist with your turtle knitting.
Hope you feel better soon!
Hope your hands get better and you're able to participate in Tour de Fleece!
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