I'm Knitting!

[Yaviiniia Loenla Enath]

(so maybe this isn't a crochet project, but I thought it would fit)

 

My sister got a bunch of expensive books on Sunday, and I was looking through the one on cables. And I decided I wanted to make something. My sister has been trying to get me to knit for a long time, but I 1) could not find something to make I liked, 2) did not like poky needles (I knit a crochet hook case on really small dpn's---my fingers did not like it) and 3) did not feel like knitting socks.

 

So now I'm making a cabled scarf on bamboo needles, and I actually think I like knitting! (now to get the Herrschner's afghan book with the cool knitted afghan LOL.)

[2020kitten]

Reader's Digest Knitter's Handbook

 

and

 

Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Without Tears

 

taught me a good bit about various techniques of casting on, holding the needles (in fact, I use a really archaic technique for that, that I picked up in one of the books), and I really like knitting with bamboo needles, especially circular ones.

 

I got interested in knitting for a couple of reasons:

 

1 - there are some things that simply look better when knitted.

 

2 - a few years ago, when I was broke, I learned that I could get more mileage out of a rare or expensive skein of yarn by knitting.

 

And now that I know how to do both, it gives me more latitude in projects, and designs. I can't imagine being graceful enough to manage double pointed needles, especially small ones, but I can see starting a doily or afghan with a crochet center, then transitioning to knit to finish it.

 

Crochet Pattern Central has a link to Knitting Pattern Central, as well as to a section for combination Knitting and Crochet Patterns. You probably already have the link bookmarked, but here it is so you have it handy.

 

http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com

 

But my first & most instinctive art is crochet.

 

Let's see pics of your scarf as you get going on it!

 

Have fun!

[Tracey4610]

Congrats on your new hobby! Knitting is fun as long as you have someone else showing you how (I didn't, and last year discovered that for 2.5 years I'd been knitting backwards! ). I hope you enjoy it!

[2020kitten]

Tracey - I think I remember reading in one of the books I mentioned above that there are, like, a gazillion different ways of knitting that are "right" in different parts of the world, and at different points in history, and for different uses - I think the Handbook illustrates, like, SIXTY-something ways JUST to CAST on!!! YIKES!!!

 

So, your "backwards" just might be right on track, somewhere...hehehe