I'm a knitter now!

I went to the Yarn Garden yesterday, and enjoyed wandering around all the wonderful colors and textures. A whole store of soft things to touch. I loved it. A nice woman pointed me to great yarn that is easy for beginners to work with. I ended up with two rolls of this beautiful, soft baby alpaca yarn in a deep burgundy with gold specks, and a roll of this soft green yarn flecked with orange and yellow.

I started knitting with the burgundy, making a scarf, and it is great to work with. It's silky, so it is easy to move over the knitting needles, and it is so nice to touch I just want to keep working on it. It's much more fun working with yarn I really like. It looks good so far, and actually looks like knitting. I think I'm starting to make fewer mistakes, and it is getting easier to hold the needles and to make the stitches consistent.

:)

hoppy november

BRRRR. It has been so cold here the past two days -- got down to the 30s over night, very chilly for here. And here I am without a fall jacket, without gloves, a scarf, or anything warm other than my fleece running vest. Clearly I need to correct that. I had visions of knitting myself a scarf, but clearly that's going to take awhile lol! (I'm on row three of my practice/learning knitting thing -- after having knitted the end into the pattern and having to start over!)

knit one, bitch two

I went to my friend lisa's house last night for Stitch n bitch -- lisa, her friend franny, me and knitting. Lisa and Franny showed me how to knit (I used to do some knitting in junior high, but I never really knew how to begin or end, so it really didn't count). It was awkward, but I managed to make some progress, and they both said I picked it up pretty fast.

So now I have visions of warm scarves dancing in my head :)

If I get good at knitting, watch out people, you might get homemade gifts!