Vicious Rumors
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- Posted: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:49:08 +0000
Short intro about me and why I started knitting.
Ok, it's not a secret that I'm a guy and people on Gaia that know me also know I'm a lot older then most of the people on here. Heck, to most I on here I could be their father seeing I have a 20 year old son.
So, up to last Sunday I was 100% anti knitting. Even the thought of me ever laying my hands on something that was knit for me seriously disgusted me. Reason for that is because at the age of 6 my mother forced me to learn how to knit and I was forced to wear the most uncomfortable knitted clothing.
So last Sunday I was bored out of my mind and turned around to my wife and told her I was going to do something that was going to shock her. Well it did shock her alright.
I said "Darling, give me some of your old needles and some cheap yarn. I'm going to knit."
Her eyes nearly popped out of her head. (Oh, my wife is a really fanatic knitter)
So here I was, 7mm needles and a ball of Aran weight yarn and no clue what to do next.
First thing I told my wife is not to interfere unless I came to her for advice or help me if I messed up the knitting.
So, remembering vaguely how I was taught to cast on stitches I looked up a handy Youtube video about long tail cast on.
With that knowledge "learned" I casted on 50 stitches and started fiddling around. Sure I know the difference between knit stitches and purl stitches. So I fiddled and messed up every single row and kept bugging my wife about that and she patiently undid my mistakes.
After a bit I guess she got a bit fed up that I kept making the same rookie mistake over and over and not being able to figure out why I made them. (ending up with extra stitches)
So, another YouTube video which showed exactly what I kept doing wrong including the way to fix that.
I'm not going to say I didn't make mistakes after that.. heck, the first project is finished and I know there's a lot of mistakes in it. But I'm very proud I finished it.
Anyway.. I casted on a new project (after frogging the previous fiddling) according to a simple pattern on Ravelry.com and started knitting again. As I said, there's plenty mistakes in it but hey.. I don't care smile
So after the first day the scarf I was knitting was already 15 inch long and I really enjoyed working on it so I took my wife to a local yarn shop and we picked out some quality yarns and some really bulky yarn (for my future sweater in earthtone colors) and I spotted some circular needles.
I assume many of you knitters on here would know the brand. Addi Click Lace
I put my scarf on the 60cm cable the next day and continued knitting. And boy oh boy does time fly when you're actually enjoying what you're doing. From 15 inches in 1 day it went to a completed project measuring 55 inches by 5 inches (unblocked, 62 inches by 6 inches blocked).
Currently it's being blocked out and then it's weaving in the ends. The next project is already started and I decided to start something challenging (for a beginner) and picked out a lacy scarf pattern.
Now that's about 2 inches already and I had my wife check it. The knitting is definately more even and it sure isn't knit tight.
So.. I'm proud of myself (and my wife for having the patience to put up with me)
Are there other people around on Gaia that have taught themselves how to knit? And how did that work out for you?
Oh, as I mentioned.. I'm a lot older but I don't care if people age 13 tell their story in here or people age 99. Age is just a number and as long as we all respect each other we'll all be fine.
Ok, it's not a secret that I'm a guy and people on Gaia that know me also know I'm a lot older then most of the people on here. Heck, to most I on here I could be their father seeing I have a 20 year old son.
So, up to last Sunday I was 100% anti knitting. Even the thought of me ever laying my hands on something that was knit for me seriously disgusted me. Reason for that is because at the age of 6 my mother forced me to learn how to knit and I was forced to wear the most uncomfortable knitted clothing.
So last Sunday I was bored out of my mind and turned around to my wife and told her I was going to do something that was going to shock her. Well it did shock her alright.
I said "Darling, give me some of your old needles and some cheap yarn. I'm going to knit."
Her eyes nearly popped out of her head. (Oh, my wife is a really fanatic knitter)
So here I was, 7mm needles and a ball of Aran weight yarn and no clue what to do next.
First thing I told my wife is not to interfere unless I came to her for advice or help me if I messed up the knitting.
So, remembering vaguely how I was taught to cast on stitches I looked up a handy Youtube video about long tail cast on.
With that knowledge "learned" I casted on 50 stitches and started fiddling around. Sure I know the difference between knit stitches and purl stitches. So I fiddled and messed up every single row and kept bugging my wife about that and she patiently undid my mistakes.
After a bit I guess she got a bit fed up that I kept making the same rookie mistake over and over and not being able to figure out why I made them. (ending up with extra stitches)
So, another YouTube video which showed exactly what I kept doing wrong including the way to fix that.
I'm not going to say I didn't make mistakes after that.. heck, the first project is finished and I know there's a lot of mistakes in it. But I'm very proud I finished it.
Anyway.. I casted on a new project (after frogging the previous fiddling) according to a simple pattern on Ravelry.com and started knitting again. As I said, there's plenty mistakes in it but hey.. I don't care smile
So after the first day the scarf I was knitting was already 15 inch long and I really enjoyed working on it so I took my wife to a local yarn shop and we picked out some quality yarns and some really bulky yarn (for my future sweater in earthtone colors) and I spotted some circular needles.
I assume many of you knitters on here would know the brand. Addi Click Lace
I put my scarf on the 60cm cable the next day and continued knitting. And boy oh boy does time fly when you're actually enjoying what you're doing. From 15 inches in 1 day it went to a completed project measuring 55 inches by 5 inches (unblocked, 62 inches by 6 inches blocked).
Currently it's being blocked out and then it's weaving in the ends. The next project is already started and I decided to start something challenging (for a beginner) and picked out a lacy scarf pattern.
Now that's about 2 inches already and I had my wife check it. The knitting is definately more even and it sure isn't knit tight.
So.. I'm proud of myself (and my wife for having the patience to put up with me)
Are there other people around on Gaia that have taught themselves how to knit? And how did that work out for you?
Oh, as I mentioned.. I'm a lot older but I don't care if people age 13 tell their story in here or people age 99. Age is just a number and as long as we all respect each other we'll all be fine.