Taking up knitting!

December 27, 2007 at 10:38 pm | In Knitting | 1 Comment

Don’t ask me what ever possessed me to take up knitting, but I just felt I had to. I now have all this wonderfully homespun yarn and I guess I want to knit some socks. So I got a pair of knitting needles and started knitting and purling on some old acrylic yarn I had laying around from my pre-spinning, pre-wool-snob days. This is going along pretty good. I had a strange start where I was purling wrong and had every other row with the ridges. But my friend straightened me out and now I’m doing fine.

I actually went to buy some yarn to practice with and ended up finding some bamboo yarn on sale so I picked up 2 skeins and made a scarf. Finished it in three days. I think it ended up looking fairly nice. I still have to block it before posting a picture.

Of course I’m so used to crochet going much quicker. I don’t know if that is because I’ve been crocheting for so long that I’m a lot quicker at it, or I am just a slow beginning knitter.

I want to knit a hoodie now.

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  1. congrads!!!!!!!!

    your speed will pick up as you practice, and I’ve found with (my) knitting, I save more yarn than if (I) crochet the same pattern. Strange huh?

    Best of luck!

    Comment by bruisinraincloud — December 28, 2007 #


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