I have finally learned how to purl! (You have no idea how excited I am) I can now start knitting my own scarf. Specifically, this upcoming Thursday I will buy my wool and update you further.
Yesterday + Today consisted of purl practice. Thankfully a friend of mine was able to give me some good tips so I now have the purl technique down pat. What I accomplished over the past two days:
Here is a tutorial of the purl stitch that I created:
I will post again once I have my wool picked out! I should probably keep practicing until then though. Ttyl.
This week I have been working on the purl stitch. Unfortunately, it has been driving me crazy! Once again it has taken me four hours to complete a short beginners videos… I know that I will improve the more I practice but continually knitting for four hours straight can make your eyes + mind extremely tired!
On the plus side, I have completely nailed the long tail casting method of stitching (also called the knit stitch). I can do this stitch extremely quickly now. This is a good reminder that with more practice this upcoming week I will eventually be able to nail the purl stitch.
Here is some progress from today’s session: The first two photos are the knit stitch while the last is the purl stitch. Hopefully next week I will be able to upload a better photo of what a purl stitch looks like!
I hope to become an expert at the purl stitch by November 1st so that I can start my scarf. I have a feeling that it will take at-least a month to make.
—– I will be studying with a friend tomorrow night who has a knitting background so with some slight begging I may be able to get some good tips on the purl stitch *fingers crossed*
On a side note: Make sure that your cat is out of the room when you proceed to start knitting. It was a struggle to get the yarn away from him. But can I blame the guy?
Unfortunately I have been putting this class on the back burner. But, not to worry I will be catching up this weekend! Get ready for at-least 2 new blogs this weekend.
Specifically, today in class we were asked to develop a k-5 appropriate inquiry using some of the technologies that we learned in class. The technology that I will be sharing with you is Google Photos, Screencastify, and Jing.
One important thing that I learned today when collecting photos from google is to go to “tools -> usage rights -> labeled for noncommercial reuse with modification. This now allows us to use photos that are copyright safe. (Something that I have never done in the past.. Yikes)
Screencastify is super cool as it is an extension from Google Chrome that allows us to record our screen activity. Jing is also a screencasting computer program but it allows us to take a photo of our screens and edit them (ie. creating arrows or descriptions).
For my Inquiry idea I will be creating a Grade 1 Guided & Controlled Science Inquiry based on foxes! This topic fits into the BC curriculum as some of the content that must be covered includes the names of animals, the structural features of animals in the local environment, and the behavioural adaptions of animals in the local environment.
To start off the class inquiry I will most likely present a fox gif.
Once this is shown to the class I will ask: “What do you see? What do you know? & What do you wonder?” The answers to these questions will be the basis for the inquiry.
If I wish to present more photos to the class I can select some noncommercial rights images from Google and edit them using Google Photos. The process is uploaded below.
Here is the edited photo
Here is the original photo
As you can see I lightened up the photo and cropped it.
Here is a photo of me using the application Jing. As you can see I am using Google Photos to edit this photo. I have added an error to the edit button so that I don’t forget how to use this application once I get home and add it to my own computer.
Michelle Shields 