I knit and knit and knit…
I never had much left for knitted things. Still don’t. But Paola inspired me so much this summer when she posted about her knitting adventures that I ran to the store just the day after we came home from our vacation and bought wool and needles. I really want to learn how to knit. Still I don’t plan to knit things to wear except of scarves or MAYBE a winter hat but I’m intrigued by knitting pillow covers or a blanket or a gumdrop pillow.
I searched online for tutorials and patterns and found this amazing site named Drops Design with amazing free patterns and descriptions and was so excited I couldn’t wait to hit the store to buy everything I needed to get started.
Uhm.. I never did this before so I looked for the easiest video tutorial on youtube and found one. Seemed easy! I had wool and needles just like the one that lady has in the video and sat in front of the Mac to try that scarf. The first row took me almost an hour to complete because I couldn’t handle the thick needles and the wool wouldn’t slide as easy as I thought  but I got used to it and just let go of the thought I have to make it perfectly.
After 3 hours it looked like this and I didn’t want to stop anymore. It’s SO much fun!
I will post an update in some days when the scarf is done.
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cute~!! i love the color of the yarn! can’t wait to see the finished product!
Yay, yay, yay! Come and join Ravelry http://www.ravelry.com. I’m ‘mirrormirror’ if you want to come and be my friend. Lots of advice, inspiration and PATTERNS to be found there. I wish we could get together for a knitting session.
And too funny about only knitting scarves – you just wait. Your stitches are lovely and even by the way, I’d never have guessed that you were just a beginner.
And I’m loving that DROPS pattern you found. Their stuff is lovely. Saving it in my Ravelry queue NOW.
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You are so awesome, and such a rock star. You always do what you put your mind to and I admire that. I have so many things I want to do but never seem to do them. Going to try to fix that.
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thank you ladies for the fabulous comments.
paola, i signed up at ravelry and will check it out. seems to be loads of fun.
emily, thank you so much. i always have to try out so many things and i can’t let go until i tried. it’s a good way to stay active :-)
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