After my last knitting disaster and interactions with the nasty knitting store ladies, I was a tad discouraged about continuing my newfound hobby. I almost followed Steve’s suggestion of taking up butter sculpting as my new hobby. But one day, I was at a business meeting, and overheard two colleagues talking about getting a knitting circle together. A knitting circle, at least to us, really just meant an excuse for a bunch of women to gather together over snacks and some spiked hot cider to chat and knit. So we did — and it was such a success that we’re planning on doing it on a regular basis. None of us are particularly advanced knitters — but, we’re helping each other learn (I learned how to make a stripe on the new scarf I’m knitting), and ultimately we may invite some women who have a bit more knitting experience so we can branch out to something other than scarves. You can see pictures from the knitting circle here.
As for my first project, I haven’t sucessfully done much with it, although it makes a lovely schmatta. I did make a scarf that I actually wear:
(here’s a closeup of the yarn, which I think is really funky, so you can actually see the colors). My next scarf is made of a lime-green mohair yarn, which I purchased at Knit New York (where the folks were very nice to me and not condescending), along with Stitch ‘N Bitch, a great, basic, hip chick’s guide to knitting (because I’m so hip). My friend who taught me to make a stripe had this soft, textured, multicolored yarn that had the exact same shade of lime-green in it, so she donated it to the cause. It looks great so far, and I’m back on the knitting bandwagon again.
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That’s beautiful! I don’t knit but I do crochet so I know how time consuming it is and how exact things have to be. Anyway–beautiful piece of work there!
That’s beautiful! I don’t knit but I do crochet so I know how time consuming it is and how exact things have to be. Anyway–beautiful piece of work there!