Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts

Friday, 28 February 2014

The Creative Maze

Val      

Hello there.  Today Dori and I are launching the ‘Creative Maze’ – you know, that monster I hinted at yesterday that has gobbled up our alternate Friday challenge posts?  This ‘monster’ evolved through one of our many Skype meets, where we were discussing our challenges and the way we deal with and present them to you.  We felt you might get bored if our individual challenges didn’t show any major progress, and that updating every two weeks didn’t allow enough time for either of us to make any great leaps forward.  Now, this isn’t a cop-out and we’re not shutting down our challenges.  We’re just going to extend the time between our challenge posts, and we think it will be better to update you with our piano/knitting progress in a joint post once a month on the last Friday of the month from now on.  You can see we’ve kicked this off today with an update from both of us. 


I’ve uploaded two new videos to our Labyrinthus XXI YouTube channel – one of me playing a simple tune (but one I couldn’t have played before this challenge), and one of my daughter playing ‘Arriety’s song’, a really pretty piece of music.  She’s only been playing for three years, and I hope I can learn to play as well as she does.  You can watch the embedded videos at the end of this post, or view through YouTube, if you like.

Friday, 21 February 2014

Challenge: Learning to Knit #4


First of all let me say, I'm loving learning to knit even though it's still going slow at the moment. I am only able to squeeze in practicing here and there due to other responsibilities, but having to learn like this is teaching me some valuable lessons.

I'm learning:

  1. You can't rush things sometimes...they just have to happen at their own pace
  2. Knitting teaches patience. 
  3. Even if you don't have the luxury of big blocks of time, taking things bit by bit also works when you want to give time to something
I knew the ideas intellectually behind these three lessons, but I'm really seeing all three in action as I learn how to knit. It's been an experience of wonderful reminders.