[Nfb-krafters-korner] Why I'm not taking an August class

[Deborah Armstrong]

It looks like you have some wonderful classes coming up. My thanks to 
all the members who give up time to create the classes!


My issue is that I'm a klutzy beginner. I can knit and purl, but I've 
never used a loom, know only one way to cast on and can't crochet 
either. I do know how to use circulars; made several hats, but don't 
know how to use DPNS either.


I guess I could take a bead class but have trouble picturing what these 
things look like.  And I can already hear my husband reminding me I 
should be using up the yarn I've already bought, before I go buying more 
craft supplies. And I do have tons of yarn and needles.


I'm not on a fixed income, so it's not a real problem for me financially 
to buy some supplies, but I don't really want to argue with him about 
why I need the stuff when I already have a room full of knitting supplies!


I took up knitting because I learned from Davey Hulse's superb "Touch of 
Yarn" (a book for blind knitters) and I needed something I could do on 
my commute which totals 3 hours each week day. That's the only real time 
I have for crafting, because I'm sleeping or working or trying to be a 
homemaker otherwise. But I did manage to make an entire afghan, just on 
my commute, out of 25 squares, each exactly a foot square. It's an 
enormous colorful thing and every square was knitted on a bumpy 
paratransit van!


So I'm feeling a little stuck. Seems like only the beginning crochet, 
which I signed up for already will make a dent in my existing inventory! 
And the other classes require skills I don't yet have. It also looks 
like many of them aren't portable; they won't really fit in to my long 
commute.


Thoughts? Am I misguided?


--Debee