Hello web world!
After a few years of reading knitting blogs like a fiend, I have decided to add my own ramblings to the blog-o-sphere. I am a relatively new knitter, took a knitting class with friends about 4 years ago when we decided to try something new.
Our office had a discount to a place called The Learning Connection which offered various classes and crafts. You could sign up for Yoga or Intro to Italian. I wanted to take knitting and belly dancing. The group wanted to go to see a "Medium" and check it out. We ended up going to see the Medium and also signed up to take a knitting class. (Now that I think about it I still want to take a belly dancing class -- still sounds like fun to me. The Medium wasn't that great. All my relatives who at the time would communicate with a Medium only spoke Greek so I didn't have my hopes up for this guy.)
Anyway, we took the class with a wonderful "Master Knitter" and after four weeks of two hour classes a new knitter was born! I loved it from the first moment I picked up my knitting needles. My good fiends and I would go to dinner after work and then to the class where our teacher taught us how to cast on, the knit stitch, the purl stitch, increasing, decreasing, how to cast off and finally (ta-da!) how to read a knitting pattern. She would serve tea and pastry and help us all with our basics. I learned more than a few good lessons in that class.
1. Do not have too much wine before knitting. My friend Banana almost took out my right eye when she overzealously was trying the increase M1 stitch.
2. Relax and enjoy the knitting!!
At the end of the class I decided to embark on my project of knitting a baby blanket for my niece. My brother and sister-in-law (or as in the Greek my "nifi") were expecting and I wanted to make something for my new little Squirt. I went to the LYS and bought a whole bunch of pink yarn. My favorite color is pink and since I knew the new baby was going to be a girl the blanket was going to be PINK. (To this day, it is still my favorite color yarn to knit with!) I settled on the baby blanket pattern from Stitch N' Bitch and had my trusty Knitting teacher help me with the pattern basics. Of course, as I have discovered in my knitting journey, I try to tweak things, I frog, I re-knit, I re-frog and on and on it goes. In the end, the blanket was lovingly knit for my Squirt. She loved it but not as much as her brother the Tank does now. It is funny to see one and a half year old nephew sleeping with a pink blanket!!
I have knit many things in my knitting journey since then. Every new baby I know gets a baby hat, each a little different but all made with love. I have found that I much prefer knitting a project and giving it away. I still don't have many things I have made that I have kept for myself. (isn't that funny?)
Currently on the needles: a top down roll neck sweater for the Tank. I have had to frog it and start over since I misjudged the size a bit and it was a little too snug around the waist.
Recent FO's:
Page 18 Elefante by Susan B. Anderson for the Squirt who requested a Red Elephant.
http://susanbanderson.blogspot.com/2007/04/page-18-elefante.html
Page 81 Booties by Susan B. Anderson for Banana's baby-to-be
http://www.knitterella.com/SusanBAnderson/Page81BootiesPattern.pdf
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