Still my two favorite hobbies, branching into new forms.

Friday night I put in some hours machine knitting. It takes just as much math and hands-on concentration as hand-knitting does. I’m still learning techniques for this craft. This is my first time doing intarsia on the machine. I’ll tell you more about the project when I finish it. You can see I get a groove going with the basic stockinette. Then when I switch to the colorwork, I get very slow and cautious!

Post-omicron wave, I’m back to once-a-week trips to this great studio in Boulder, Alchemy of Movement. Before last year I’d never take a hip-hop/pop/jazz class. Ever. Crazy! They are so fun. I always loved the Zumba routines that were more hip-hop style.

I usually pick one of Alchemy’s dance fitness classes, Werq or Hyped AF. Like Zumba, they are 60 min of non-stop dancing, each song a basic pattern you learn as you go. But these are hip-hop and jazz instead of latin dance-inspired.

This video is from a different class, Party Hip-Hop, where Ayla teaches a short choreographed routine. While I prefer dance fitness classes, learning choreo can be fun too. Today was the second time I’ve taken this class. After reviewing the video I can see that I am still a stiff ballerina! I thought I doing ok with the style, but man, I could really loosen up. Chalk it up to my formal training and my arthritic joints!