I created my own knitting tower and then bought a bonafide real one. It was so easy that I thought it might not be a huge leap to real knitting. At the craft store yesterday I partied! It was so fun looking at all the knitting goodies Seven skeins of yarn and three sets of knitting needles came home with me. Oh, and a book about knitting for preteens.
Upon reflection, I probably should have bought the kit made for 6 year olds. That might have been more my level. All I really want to achieve is the ability to make a tidy dish cloth and a muffler.......winter scarf. M mentioned, well, pleaded actually, that he doesn't need any vests or sweaters.
Well, I learned the knitting part pretty quickly. YouTube has some helpful videos. My problem is neatness. I have knitted and unknitted the same length of yarn innumerable times in the last 24 hours. Why I'm not getting even stitches, I am not sure. I don't mind practicing time and time again, but I wish I knew what it was that I needed to correct. I just keep making the same messy mistakes over and over again.
This is my best one so far:
Hehehehe......Does everyone's first day of knitting look like this or am I just special?
I have had fun with it none-the-less. Last night I woke up at 4:00 am to the sound of ice hitting the roof. I contemplated ice for a couple of minutes and then became wide awake as I thought, "I can go downstairs and knit!!!" So I did. I've played around with it most of the day.
3 comments:
My first day knitting looked exactly like that. Actually, my current knitting project looks very similiar to that. We'll have to get together and knit sometime. Welcome to the club :) Even though I'm pretty horrid at it I absolutely love it. It's something about working with the yarn that just calms me.
Oh dear, you are in trouble! Knitting is a slippery slope... And my knitting looked just like that for days and days and days but I didn't care because the knitting bug had bit.
: )
I'm so tickled you're knitting -- welcome to the Dark Side!
Which way are you knitting -- Continental or American? If you don't know, tell me which hand you use to hold the working yarn. Perhaps we just need to get you "positioned" a little different and those stitches will line up.
Keep in mind that knitting with 100% cotton means absolutely no give to the fiber. This may be aggravating, especially if you knit tightly. Once you get a feel for it, there are oodles of freebie patterns on the net. Let me know if I can help -- I learned via the Internet and crafting programs on TV.
Post a Comment