I keep falling asleep.
While I am knitting.
I will be knitting away and suddenly I realize that I have been sitting and sleeping while half way through a stitch. I suppose I should be grateful that I have not dropped the stitch or the knitting. It is very frustrating! I need to get some projects done by tomorrow and because I keep falling asleep it is going very slowly. I suppose it doesn't help that beside me is this little girl!
I don't want to sleep while I am knitting. I used to have the same type of problem when I was in University. During lectures in big lecture halls I would often find myself nodding off while still taking notes. If only I was in Uni now! I would be recording the lectures! But...knitting is another thing. I can't take notes and transcribe immediately afterwards, I can't, somehow, have automatic sleep knitting that keeps the pattern and drops no stitches. I have tried. When I feel myself getting tired I think (erroneously) that I can just close my eyes and carry on knitting. (This works best when knitting in the round.) Eventually I wake up in mid stitch. I try to carry on 2 or 3 times after the first snooze but then I have to lay the knitting aside and have a nap.
I suppose that you are wondering why I don't get up and make a strong coffee and do some other things. I wonder that too! But, at the time sleep just seems the best thing to do!
I need some tricks. Some staying awake tools! I need to learn not to relax while knitting. Oh, ye of wakeful knitting habits! Share some of your secrets! Please!!
Saturday sky...We have sun!!! After 2 or 3 days of dismal rain we have sun!!
I took a few moments to sit in the corner of my couch and bask in it this morning!
Here are a few more of my Santas.
I thought this bowl of ornaments looked so good in the morning sun today! Almost like a bowl of jewels!
Now....I have to clean this house!!! Company tomorrow!
I hope you too are enjoying the sun!
4 comments:
Now I don't feel so bad about starting to drift during Handel's Messiah! It was beautiful, but so relaxing! :0)
I wish I could help you, I would get more knitting done! If I'm too tired to knit, I make huge (but often inscrutable) knitting errors, so now I just put it aside and wait for a better time.
you are not alone my friend. This week, while trying very hard to finish Ariann so that she can make her debut at the staff Christmas party tonight, I have fallen asleep while knitting no less than 4 times. I am just now ready to cast off the collar but still have ends to weave and buttons to sew, not to mention a wet block on the alpaca. No debut tonight for Ariann thanks to sleepy me.
Love all your Santas.
I make a mess out of my patterns when I am really tired and have learned that it is best for me not to knit then. The only things I can think of are making sure you are getting enough complex carbohydrates, water and a bit of nice dark chocolate here and there. I don't get dragged out and tired anywhere near as much since I was diagnosed and had to change my eating habits. (Hypoglycemia)
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