update...

alrighty... so I haven't said much, but it doesn't mean i haven't still been practicing. decided to do more stitches at a time so I have a slightly longer piece of knitted nothing. and then I did a little one to try casting-off - the last row of a piece. it took me a few tries to figure that out. i've still just been watching videos from the same site and then trying it. i'd typically watch it a few times, then try it, then when it didn't work, watch some more, then try it. i did try to do it along w/ the video once or twice but of course she was going faster than me and i couldn't keep up. what would be handy would be a voice activated player so that i could tell it to pause every few seconds to compare hand placement and such. using both hands to knit made it a tad difficult (tho not impossible actually) to pause it periodically. anyway, i have a few more pics i have to upload. i still have about a month, and i think i'm going to spend that practicing. i think i've gotten enough of a handle on the basic mechanics, but i need to work on making it work smoothly and being consistent w/ the stitches. if i can manage to knit a few rows that look all neat and purdy, that'll be cool. if i can do that in the next couple of weeks, then i'll switch to the purl stitch which just changes the placement of the yarn. Hopefully it's a little easier to get that one. If there's time, i'll try somehing that involves a combination of the two, but i'm not altogether sure that's likely... but we shall see...