I hold all you clever knitty bloggers on my blogroll personally responsible for this – how dare you have lots of interesting pictures of your handiwork up there for all to see!
Yes, I have finally succumbed to picking up some knitting needles of my own, spent a small fortune in my local department store on various wools and accessories, purchased the Stitch ‘n Bitch
It’s all part of a grand plan to lure me away from the computer (especially during the day at the weekends) and get me sitting in the same room the boys are playing in order to be an interractive, chatty mother instead of the glazed internet addict locked away in the study.
They play well enough during the day together now that I don’t want to interfere with that (or get dragged into playing Power Rangers or somesuch) but sitting watching them is only interesting for the first ten minutes or so. I may as well do something practical and fun at the same time. Me woman, me multi-task.
I do need to find another source of knitting supplies though. I had a choice of two colours for the type of wool I wanted (worsted/aran – hardly an unpopular weight, surely?) and the whole haberdashery was crammed into a very dark corner of the basement. I’m guessing it’s not something you can easily buy online either? Hard to work out what the wool is going to be like without physically seeing and feeling it.
Now, if you lot can just stop doing ultra-colourful advanced knitting projects while I finish my square and start on a very basic scarf, I’d be grateful. Oh and tell me how to stop doing the stitches so tight I can barely move them on the needles too. Ta.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Paula // 21st Jan 2007 at 8:49 pm
That is why I gave up knitting, stitches so tight if I had made a jumper the poor person would have had his arms stuck in the one position!
So instead I keep myself busy with cross-stitch, but sush, I don’t want to ruin my reputation! It is still seen as a bit grannyish.
Oh and there is a really good shop in Linlithgow “Nifty Needles” and a great fabric shop if you ever feel like sewing something. Thats not going to help you is it….but if you are ever here on holiday!!!
2 Alley Katt // 22nd Jan 2007 at 12:56 pm
My daughter (8) got a knitting set for her birthday last year, and she is still waiting on her nan to help her to learn how to do it.
She also got a sewing machine for christmas.
3 cassie-b // 23rd Jan 2007 at 2:18 pm
relax. If you are more relaxed, the stitches will get less tight.
Don’t hold the yarn quite so tightly. And enjoy.
Cas
4 Elle // 24th Jan 2007 at 1:44 pm
“…get me sitting in the same room the boys are playing in order to be an interractive, chatty mother instead of the glazed internet addict locked away in the study.”
Oh dear, I must warn you that knitting is just as addictive so you’re likely to become a glazed knitting addict instead! We’ll have you talking about yarn weights, circular needles and dpns in no time:)
5 Pewari // 24th Jan 2007 at 2:24 pm
Paula: that’s so cruel – telling me there’s a fab shop near you ;) I’m very jealous now! Mind you, I’ve been told there’s a specialist knitting shop in another part of Worcester, so I’ll have to go check it out. It’s GOT to be better than the department store’s mediocre selection.
Alley Katt: I think there’s some sites on the web that give basic knitting tutorials (although not a good substitute for seeing it done, admittedly) – do you think she could pick it up from them?
Cassie-b: definitely managing to move them more now – but then I finished my square and am on to a scarf and using big chunky plastic needles rather than bamboo ones. Am I just odd for prefering cheepo plastic?!
Elle: oh dear :) Oh well. At least I’ll be in the same room, right? One out of two goals achieved!
6 Alley Katt // 24th Jan 2007 at 4:04 pm
No, unfortunately she is a kinaesthetic learner. (For those without kids in school, that is she has to learn from doing or watching)
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