I’ve learned to knit!
Before Thanksgiving my very patient friend, Melissa started teaching me to knit. I figured I’d be able to pick up knitting really easy since I already knew how to crochet. Well, truth is, it has been a long battle …which began with teaching me how to make a slip knot. Yeah, it’s true, I had a “knitter’s block”….I just made that up. Basically what happened was I could not for the life of me make a basic slip knot to start my project. It took Jackie and Melissa working with me to get this very basic knot. I felt like a total ditz. Sheesh, talk about embarrassing.
Once I mastered the slipknot I was on my way….I thought. I proceeded to work on my washcloth pattern ..alot. (that I found on a blog). Trouble was, I didn’t know how to fix my mistakes, or what to do if I missed a stitch. So, everytime I made a mistake, I unraveled the entire project! My family was getting pretty frustrated with me and began telling me things like “you are OCD”, “just keep going”, “are you EVER going to finish one?” Then, one day, it happened…I finished a washcloth! HOWEVER…I couldn’t really finish it until I learned how to bind off/cast off whatever they call it. So it sat on the needles waiting for someone to show me. Cara had actually shown me how to do it on a previous (poorly done) cloth, but now I was on my own, and I couldnt’ remember how. So, I checked out YouTube…and there it was…lessons on binding off!
Take a look at my work below..and be sure to read the post at the end…maybe you can win your very own waffle knit dishcloth!
Count them…3! I’m so excited!
The sage green one with white stripe is my favorite
Here’s a close-up of the pattern