“Knits” a wrap! It’s hard to believe that this semester is finally coming to a close. Throughout the past couple of months, I have been working on a knitting project in order to further develop my knitting skills. Starting out, I had no idea how to knit, mostly a foreign skill to me, but was something I chose as it was something that my Grandma loved to do. I would have to say I was successful in learning the basics…
Overall, my knitting project has just been ok. I am still continuing to work on my dishcloth and it feels as if it is taking forever. I feel like the next thing I need to work on is building my knitting stamina. I have no problems sitting down to knit, but my hands get sore after knitting 1 row so I never really get much done in 1 sitting. However, I recently learned about a different kind of knitting that…
Just when I thought I was done with my project I was slapped with the reality that I thought majorly wrong. I got to the last row of my project after it took me painfully long and wondered, what exactly do I do now? That’s when I consulted trusty Google! One of the first results to pop up was a site called “Just to Sew“. Now, I’ll be honest, I was a bit skeptical about consulting a page for sewers…
I’m finally on the downward swing of my knitting project. This weeks new skill was learning how to decrease the number of stitches on my dishcloth. Decreasing the amount of stitches is important as I have been knitting on a diagonal and at the moment my dishcloth is a triangle shape. Whether or not these sorts of projects are knit on the diagonal most of the time I’m not really sure. I followed the first video I found that was…
This week I finally got back to my knitting adventures. I’m still continuing on with my dishcloth. My current motto is that “slow and steady wins the race”. Though this small dishcloth is taking me forever and a day to complete, I am focusing more on the process of learning the skill itself, discovering new resources, and just trying to enjoy myself rather than focusing on the end project. I ran into another problem with my knitting project that I…
This week my knitting project came to a standstill as I just didn’t have the energy or the drive to work on my project. I’m finding it difficult to come home from a long day at work and want to knit. I can see this going over differently once I get better and don’t have to think so hard about every small move that I make. Instead of knitting this week, I took to the internet in search of a…
So far, my knitting project has had its ups and downs. I think that can be said with any new skill that a person is learning. I never expected this skill to be something that I learned how to do overnight. There has also been plenty of trial and error with the resources I have used so far in my learning journey. This week I finished half of my dish cloth that I was making as a starter project. The…
The task for this week was to get over the metaphorical hill of the absolute struggle that was last week. My knitting project this week did see some successes, however, looking at it currently, I would describe it as being mangled a bit by a raccoon. During the first week of my journey, I did state that I understood that 1. this was going to take time to master, 2. my knitting was not going to look pretty and perfect…
Knitting this past week has turned into a true test of my patience. When I first picked up the needles and yarn from the store, I sat on the couch, extremely eager to get knitting away. I had little to no problems regarding the skills I was attempting to learn: the slip knot, casting on, and the knit stitch. Within a day of learning, I had a small patch that I had knitted just as practice. I set the knitting…
The plan throughout last week was to learn how to “cast on” and learn the basic knit stitch to develop my knitting skills further. This called for a trip to the store to gather all of the supplies I would need. As I am just starting, I kept the shopping to a minimum as I only needed to figure out how to get the yarn on my knitting needles and learn a basic stitch this week. My purchases included a…