I've decided to go from the beginning and work from there.
The women in my family have always been knitters, and the skill has been passed down through the family. My Grandma knits, she taught my mum and my sister, and in turn, my sister taught me.
Naturally, my sister started me off with the basics, and persevered through my tantrums to teach me, but I soon took to knitting like a duck to water! Pretty soon, I was trawling the internet for patterns and I became a knitting machine!
The first ever project that I finished was a big old striped baby blanket, knitted all in garter stitch on a pair of plastic size six needles. I didn't knit from a pattern, so I guess I created this piece of knitting! One day I just started knitting. People asked me "What is it?" and for a long time, I really didn't have a clue, I then changed yarn colour, and again and again until I ended up with a blanket!
I knitted this whilst I was in the middle of rehearsals for a musical as well so this passed a lot of the hours when I was sitting around!
I also was looking into crochet at this point, and although it's not something I've touched into again, I am intending to tackle crochet by attempting some of the hats that are in the book from my last post, but more about that later! But anyway, once I had finished the blanket, I decided it didn't look quite right just knitted, so I added a single crochet border around the edge.
This blanket was given to my sister as a baby shower present, and my niece loves it!!
Ta ta,
Ris x
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The women in my family have always been knitters, and the skill has been passed down through the family. My Grandma knits, she taught my mum and my sister, and in turn, my sister taught me.
Naturally, my sister started me off with the basics, and persevered through my tantrums to teach me, but I soon took to knitting like a duck to water! Pretty soon, I was trawling the internet for patterns and I became a knitting machine!
The first ever project that I finished was a big old striped baby blanket, knitted all in garter stitch on a pair of plastic size six needles. I didn't knit from a pattern, so I guess I created this piece of knitting! One day I just started knitting. People asked me "What is it?" and for a long time, I really didn't have a clue, I then changed yarn colour, and again and again until I ended up with a blanket!
I knitted this whilst I was in the middle of rehearsals for a musical as well so this passed a lot of the hours when I was sitting around!
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| The First Project |
This blanket was given to my sister as a baby shower present, and my niece loves it!!
Ta ta,
Ris x
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