project knit
14/07/2008
I’ve been itching to learn to knit since I was 12. When I was 18, I went to Spotlight down over at (then) Paragon to try to get started with some yarn and maybe a book or something. Turns out I picked out a nifty crochet book and went down that path instead. A large tote bag and many years later, I can’t remember how to crochet, and I still can’t knit.
This weekend while Sharks was over she taught me how to knit and I have to say I think it’s more fun than crocheting. Crocheting is rather time consuming and slow, and it doesn’t allow for multi-tasking, so all you have is a monologue in your head which is kind of boring. Knitting is sort of like driving. You can sing to it.
So when Sharks went yarn shopping all over town this weekend, I went along and bought myself some stuff to start with. I have to admit I did go a little nutty over the yarn as I do beginning with projects (remember the whole bead jewellery phase?) but I think I’m stopping while I’m ahead – with the shopping – and am now researching patterns to work on.
At one of the stores we went to, they gave a free (small) fuzzball of yarn with every purchase and Sharks picked me out a really cute, totally me, blue-grey-magenta-brown one. Very understated chic. Like a good camper, I went ahead and knitted that up with every intention of turning it into a small pouch but ran out of yarn halfway through. It’s now a coaster for my little nookside magazine table. I went back to try and get more of the same colour, but they don’t have the same thing anymore. I couldn’t even find anything vaguely like it that I liked, so no matching coasters for the dining room. I did however, buy a lot more stuff, and took a pink fuzzball this time. It’s part wool part silk, so it’s very soft and a tad shiny. Maybe I’ll leave that for a crochet project.
Am very pleased with my loot, and between the knitting, crocheting and gardening, I think I’ll be plenty tied up till the next corporate adventure.
