Self-teaching

[smarriveurr]

So, there were two Craft Nights in a row in the local shire. Last night, one of the ladies showed ragnvaeig some fingerpuppets she'd wanted to show me, which seemed to be knitted. But I don't knit. ragnvaeig mentioned the universal agreement that learning to knit out of a book is hard. That registered in my brain as a challenge. So somewhere between 2:30 and 3:00 pm

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[firynze]

Yup, looks like you've got the basics!

I taught myself to knit out of a book. Even learned cabling that way. The only thing I had to be shown was casting on, because the way the book did it was WRONG WRONG WRONG.

[smarriveurr]

I got Knit pretty quick... once I had Purl I figured I could claim to have learned knitting. ;)

I looked at about three different ways to cast on, and learned a fourth at craft night. The book I was learning from was really little help for casting on at all - that obviously makes it harder to learn the stitches, since you don't know what you've got is right.

[firynze]

Cabling is fun. Just wait 'til you hit that point.

I don't knit, because it's slow and hurts my wrists, but my first project was a knit, cabled mockneck sweater for my father. When I learn something, I go big. :-D

[smarriveurr]

See, I just tend to go for something vaguely interesting, but usually relatively small. Like fingerpuppets and cat toys. I seem to recall a Hellboy doll pattern that would use up this rather nasty red yarn I picked up ages back...

[firynze]

Ooooh. That could be neat...