Sorry I’m late to the SOCS, Linda G Hill, I was busy with all my PROJECTS. Yes, all those knitting projects have kept me going all day. I am nearly finished with one or two but they take the kind of concentration one needs as they learn new stitches. YouTube tutoring included. I’ll share again when finished.
Part of the reason I am late to the party was the weather. Yep, we got snow again, but with this system rolling in the bones and fibromyalgia knocked me for a loop and when I get to that stage the only thing I can do is nap and hope to wake with less pain. And that did work. Of course that means I may be up for another hour or so catching up on everything I should have been doing at naptime.
If it helps, I am reading your book: All Good Stories, now and hope to be finished tomorrow some time. It is fun.
Well, that’s all I got for now.
Darswords 
Another knitter! No, not me, my wife. She loves YouTube…
Yay! Is your wife a needle knitter or does she use the loom? I use the loom as the needles hurt my arms and hands. By the way, I know guys who knit. After all, it was invented by sailors as I recall. There is a husband in our Hugger Hats (charity) group that likes working with the loom. My daughter’s boyfriend learned to use the loom and seemed to like it. But high five to your wife and thanks for commenting. Yay! for YouTube! You can learn anything there!
She works with needles. She’s very good, from what I know of it: she’s taught herself brioche stitch and is learning how to do Estonian knitting (her grandparents were all from Lithuania, the next country south). I’m afraid only one of my hands works, so anything requiring two hands is kind of out, including playing guitar and writing with a pen (it was my right hand that was affected).
Wow, that is really impressive. I’d love to see some of her work. I only got as far as making scarves and slippers with my needles before arthritis told me I was crazy. I don’t have a problem with the looms. I am finally graduating to socks and a tiny loom. I hope I can do it.
I am sorry about your right hand. My husband is healing after breaking his left shoulder making it impossible to do much for months. And I watched my grandfather lose his hands to tremors due to Parkinsons. He had been a carpenter. I just find that so hard to think about. What can you do now? Can the right hand hold things steady for the left? One handed piano? Keyboard with programmable bass? Modeling clay? Painting? Having watched my husband these last few weeks I have thought through what I might try. Of course, then there’s the pain issues and how much you can try. I know it is weird that I get involved in this topic but it has always been a something I think about. I have since I was a child and a boy at school broke his right arm and couldn’t writing anymore. I went home and started writing with my left hand. I still don’t write above my second grade level of cursive but it is legible. Can’t do it for any length of time and I think if I were forced it would be quite frustrating. I try drawing with my left and find pictures don’t look like an adult did them. So all this must be quite frustrating for you. I never played guitar. I was always jealous because guitar players could take their instrument with them. Pianos are just too huge! And they don’t have earphones so everyone has to hear you practice. Meh, there is a give and take to it all isn’t there.
If you don’t mind my asking, how did it happen, the loss of your right hand? What have you found you can do and enjoy?
You can see some of her mittens here: https://thesoundofonehandtyping.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/mittens-by-mary-jusjojan/
I had a stroke ten years ago and it left me weak on the right side. My hand feels like it’s asleep all the time, and I’ve lost the fine muscle movements that allow one to hold a pencil, play the guitar, and all the other thousand and one things you do with your dominant hand. I broke my right arm in third grade, and was forced to write with my left hand for the month or so it took to heal. I probably should have kept doing it, but in those days the nuns at school frowned on you writing left handed unless you needed to, I think because they wanted you to be able to write with a fountain pen (a practical impossibility left handed, because your hand drags across the wet ink). I never quite understood the fountain pen thing; the ballpoint had been around for a hundred years by then….
I’m sorry about thee stroke, but you seem to have found your way around things that are inconvenient and finding new ways of expressing yourself. Yeah, fountain pens are the worst for lefties. I was in public school so nobody frowned when I tried being ambidextrous. I think being a piano student since I was five made me feel I could use both hand. It was confusing for softball as my hands didn’t know which one was suppose to catch a ball. Oh, pens–I found some erasable gel pens on Amazon that are really great and don’t smudge or tear paper. Just an aside. I’m glad to meet you and your wife. You seem like cool people!
All the best with your projects.
Well, thank you! Happy Birthday!