Old Style Typing and New Knitting

 I am rummaging through our offices, ordered to throw out any unnecessary equipment that we have  accumulated over the years, which when you work with computers is a lot. Because computer components are always going out of date, being upgraded, and what have you.  To my excitement,  I found two electric typewriters and a whole box of ribbons to go with them!   And even better, I plugged one in and it works!

Now if you are not familiar with electric typewriters, let me send some old history your way!  When I was in high school, during the late 1970's we took something called a typing class.  It was a classroom set up with 25 typewriters, things you typed on to create letters, poems, essays, term papers.  Most of them were NOT electric which means your fingers had to punch hard down on the keys. Much like the old straight stick and clutch on a car without automatic shifting.  Are you still with me? Sorry I am digressing to an ancient age.  Anyway, we students would fight over who got an electric typewriter because it was so much easier to type on.  

Nowadays we, myself included are so used to typing on a little keyboard that doesn't make any noise, unless you want it to and when we make mistakes, all we do is back up or tell the program to correct them.  Not so, in the old days.  Then, if you were lucky again, you could use the correction ribbon that some typewriters came with. It was was a clear ribbon that sucked up the printed letter you mistakenly typed.  Now some of these had white ribbons that just stuck correction fluid over your mistake also. There was a lot of variety to this.

I am going to bring a typewriter home so my granddaughters can try it out.  Meanwhile, I am still trying to get the granddaughters to learn to knit or crochet.  They feign interest for about five minutes then get distracted...must be all the ducks they are hunting for. (another story for another time).

I finally finished their Christmas sweaters and I have begun strictly knitting a sweater, at least one if not two before Christmas again.  I vow to finish a knitted sweater in this lifetime!  It is such slow going and I am only knitting and not even doing fancy stitches!  How in the world does anybody do those fancy stitches without getting lost?

Anyway, here is the front of the sweater, don't you just love the colors? I bought the yarn online from KnitPicks and will have to look up the name, sorry, I am not good at remembering things like that.

But the feel is soft and wonderful although it is a little lightly spun so the twist comes undone at times and is hard to pick up stitches without paying close attention, again, something I am bad about. But so far so good.  I hope to piece together the front and back soon and begin on sleeves...which will take forever!