I have rediscovered knitting, and it seems to have replaced my Facebook addiction! It started as a small project to knit baby scarves for triplets in my mothers' group, and I enjoyed it so much that I've continued. Spotlight has become my new favourite store as I source wool and craft supplies to create different pieces for friends and their children.
I learnt how to knit when I was was six, as it was one of the electives we could choose in primary school. We were supposed to knit a pot holder, but I couldn't be bothered (read: I didn't have the patience for reading the pattern) and just knitted a scarf. Ever since I've only been able to knit garter stitch scarves, so when I started looking at different patterns so I could branch out to other projects I couldn't understand them. There are so many abbreviations - P1, K1, M1, YO, St St.... It's a whole other language!!
Thankfully we live in the age of the internet. A quick google search and I can find hundreds of instructional pages and videos - if I want to learn a new stitch or work out how to knit in the round or how to change colours there is inevitably a YouTube video for it!
Here is a sample of what I've made so far:
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| Scarf for 2 Year Old |
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| Matching Bracelet |
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| Scarf for 1 year old |
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| Scarf for 1 year old |
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| Headband |
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| Baby Leg Warmers |
The buttons on the scarves are not actually sewn in place - they are attached to a brooch. This is so that as the child grows the scarf can grow too by simply moving the brooch.
Of all the above projects I am most proud of the leg warmers - it involved learning how to rib, how to purl, what stockinette stitch is, how to do a yarn over for a picot row and how to complete the leg warmers by stitching up the seam with mattress stitch (see what I mean about the other language?!)
I'm looking forward to making more as the year goes on.
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