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I had my first day of my first class today. The very not-so-intimidating BUS105. Classes are through live chat sessions, and scheduled on central standard time. I’m pacific standard time, so I figured out that a 10 am class would actually be 8 am for me. Woke up an hour early, started the day right, got into the classroom and was really the only one there besides the instructor.

So I know I’ve said it before over other things, but this is a sign the world is ending. When not only am I prompt, but even the instructor was a few minutes late– it’s the apocalypse, clearly an omen of the impending destruction of the planet.

There I am in the virtual classroom, with only the instructor, and he asks me “Do you have any questions?” Of course. I always have questions, but they aren’t always relevant; these questions happened to be relevant and I’m actually really glad I had the time to ask and get the answers (since without those answers it would have made it hard for me to finish my first assignment.)

All in all it was pretty good. About 20 minutes into class a few other students showed up (which probably kept the instructor from going insane with my questions.) He keeps calling us (the class) “TEAM” with capital letters, it’s an acronym, I know that; still doesn’t stop me from wanting to call him “Coach” in return.

I actually knit something, as kind of a practice run. The Sun-Ray Doyly (sic) from Mary Thomas’s Knitting Patterns. This is from a cheap crochet cotton that I normally use to tie up skeins of yarn with before washing them. I’m glad I had it on hand though, because I really did want to see how this pattern knit up. I did not bother with the final seam or blocking, I am bad. (I’m also sorry for the horrible picture, I will retake it when I have fresh batteries for the camera.)

I think when I use my hand spun, I’ll use a provisional cast-on and graft the first and last rows together to minimize the seam, I understand it won’t be completely seamless but I think it would work better. (Yes, I know it’s recommended in the book to do it that way, but I didn’t read that part until after I’d finished knitting the doily.) There’s a couple other vintage patterns I’d like to try before deciding though.