My boyfriend often watches me knit or crochet.  He says he would never have the patience for that.  I have to laugh at him, because he does model railroads.  But not the usual HO scale.  Oh no, he has to do N scale, and complains that it is still a bit big.  N scale is 1:160.  I can barely see the little details that he puts so much time into.  Yet he doesn't have the patience for needle work?

I guess it takes a different kind of patience.  To me its relaxing, meditative even.  The repetative motion could almost put me in a trance.  Or if I'm not in the mood to meditate or think, I can read or watch a movie. 

Being able to read while I work comes with practice though.  I've been crocheting for 20 years or more.  For a 30 year old thats a long time. 

It also helps with the patience thing that I keep at least two projects going at all times.  That way if I get bored or frustrated with one, I can lay it aside and work on something else for a while.  The only  problem with that is picking the projects up again.  I'm really good at starting projects and not finishing them.  I'm working on that.  I'm finishing two old projects before I start one new one.  It seems to be working too.  I still have a long ways to go.  But over the next year I should finish most of my older projects.  And any new ones that I start, I'm forcing myself to finish.

I just finished my ruana, except for weaving in the ends and blocking it.  I haven't done that because I'm not sure how and I don't want to ruin it.  So I'll ask a friend when I see her this week.  Or if that falls through, I can always go online and find instructions.  Thats what I've always done.  Well, online and books.  Most of what I've learned has been on my own.  I'm trying to change that.  I want to take some classes, and by next month I should be able to. 

Next year I want to start teaching a few classes.  I will be teaching one or two friends between now and then, but I don't know how to structure an actual class.  I've never taken one or even seen one taught.  That makes it kind of hard to teach one.  Its slightly different than teaching in a regular classroom.  That I can and have done.  In fact I've decided that will be my day job as soon as I can finish school.  Or it will be until I can get my organization self supporting enough to justify a salary for myself.