Meditative Knitting

Friday morning I decided to do some meditative knitting. Wait...knitting? Yes, I do know how to knit, I just don't do any very often, like once every 5 years or so I make a little swatch.
At the dance studio on Wednesday, one of the students gave knitted scarves to 4 of the teachers. They were made of baby alpaca, so pretty! and so soft. She and her mom were each working on a scarf of the alpaca and I watched them work. Took a scap of the alpaca and tied it around my wrist and wore it home, like a bracelet. I figure if I was allergic to alpaca, as I am to wool, the itching would drive me crazy before the evening was over. Guess what? No reaction at all, so now my mind is considering buying some of that beautiful yarn. Well, I really don't nned any more scarves, I made plenty while exploring yarns and Tunisian stitches and patterns. However, I was asked to teach a Tunisian class at the LYS...buy the alpaca at the yarn shop, use it to work up a sample for the class, write the class proposal...it's all good.
But I digress, I decided to practice knitting and learn a little more about it so that I can adapt some knitting patterns to Tunisian. I thought it would be a good excersize to think about learning a new skill, or practice a fairly new skill and think about the learning process. I thought it would be a good way to experience what some of the students might be going through as they take one of my beginner crochet classes.