Here is my current knitting project: fingerless gloves. They are so soft and will be so pretty. The yarn is baby alpaca! If you click on that pic, you can see the extra large blown up version. I am knitting them “in the round” on a four-needle frame, which means they will be seamless. It’s much more complicated than making a scarf, but I want to really learn to knit and not be stuck making potholders and other rectangular items.
Today has been quite slow and gray, but I did get a few things done. We haven’t exercised yet but I think pretty soon we’ll go to the garage and hit the heavy bag and do those hated push ups. Meanwhile I’m watching someone make a banana cream pie on the food network.
I’m off to update my faux LJ again, which is still unfindable using livejournal’s shitty search engine. Maybe it takes them an entire week to update their index?
i really like that yarn! i’ve been making scarves again which is kind of funny considering i live in arizona but hey, it gets kinda chilly here in the winter. i was glad to have mine for about a 3 week period but now it’s getting warm again.
p.s. i crochet as it’s easy and i’m not sure how to knit. too bad i’m still in the square/rectangular arena of making things!
It took me so long to really learn to knit. I couldn’t learn from a book, I had to be around other knitters and have them show me and teach me. And being around other women who are making amazing things kinda makes me feel like hey, I could do that too! And then when they make mistakes, I realize that even if you’ve been doing it for ten or twenty years, you’re still always learning.
That’s a good way to look at it. Yeah, I’m no good at being crafty by looking at a book. My mother-in-law makes all kinds of stuff so she is the one who taught me at least the basics but I learned right before leaving for Alaska and we haven’t lived back in Iowa since so I’m never around long enough to learn anything else. I’ll probably have her teach me something when she visits next…that’ll give my husband a break from her constant questions! ha
Same here — it’s impossible for me to learn from a book. You’re much more adventurous than I am, though, with the fingerless gloves! I spent years just doing a simple knit, and only recently started to try to perl and follow patterns.