I'm Gonna Tat Today

    I'm gonna tat today. I swear I'm gonna tat. I need the break. Lately I have been busy outdoors and I am tired. It is yard trash pickup today so I have something for them. I just put out the last 8 bags this morning. They can have it.

    I have 32 bags of leaves from the back yard. My front yard is not so bad by far, but parts of my back yard are just full. I have trees everywhere. Remember? They like to fall and cause me expense. And now I have to pick up after them. Yeah, it looks better. I like it, but it is a lot of work.

    Well, I'm gonna tat. I have some things to get done and I want to do the tatting, not the raking. That rake is making my arthritis in my thumbs hurt too. That makes it harder to hold the shuttle. I don't care. I'm gonna tat. Then I can post tatting instead of leaves. Gimme my shuttle!

    Oh,  by the way. I gave my buddy next door the hat. He loved it!

Hat Done

    Now I have the knitting done. My hat is finished. I am not sure if I will keep it or give it to the guy next door. I do have a couple of mistakes in it, but they are not obvious so I let them go.

    To me knitting can be boring, so I like to watch videos while I do it. I can knit by feel pretty well so I don't have to watch it all the time. I cannot say that about crochet. I have to watch crochet. I can tat by feel also.
    Anyway, I found some really nice videos to watch on YouTube. They are train rides from the view of the engineer. There is no sound but the sound of the train on the tracks, but some of the scenery - WOW! So far my favorite has been a train across Montenegro. It is a 3 1/2 hour video. They sure have a lot of tunnels. So I  ride the train and count stitches. You may not like it but I do. Now I would like to visit there.

More Knitted Hat

    I told you I was a slow knitter. I can only do a few rows then stop a bit. I am not in a speed contest and don't really care. I did look at some videos on YouTube about the fastest knitters. They do appear to use the continental method, but, as I said, I just don't seem to be able to get the feel of it.

The question here for the day is, am I knitting correctly? Not the stitches, but I seem to knit inside out. The photo above is the inside of the cap.

    The second photo shows the outside. You can see the cables on it. But which way is correct? I have seen discussions that talk about that issue and it seems that I knit on the "away" side of the piece instead of on the "near" side. I don't know that it makes much difference once it is done.
    Does anyone else do that? Oh, and the camouflage color does it's job. Hard to see the cables.