Knitting update #1

Nearly a month ago I wrote a blog post all about how I'd taken up knitting.

I started off with some thin purple wool and just learned how to cast on and do the knit stitch.  After using up the wool and restarting it again and again I decided to try knitting a scarf (not the one pictured).

After knitting about 2ft of it I went out and bought a load of wool!  I had some big size 10 knitting needles so bought some chunky wool to go with them and started on the scarf in the picture.

It's an endless scarf that wraps around 3 times :)  I had no idea how to join the ends together, and sadly that shows as it doesn't look the neatest, but it works :)  It's a super warm scarf and hopefully who ends up having it as a Christmas present will like it, despite it not being perfect :)

In the mean time I'm still working on my first scarf, I'm hoping to have that finished in the next week, then I can start on my next project, learning the purl stitch!!! I need to learn that one for one of the balls of yarn I bought - it's supposedly one ball = one scarf, but before I start on that wool I want to practise the stitch on cheaper wool first.

Wish me luck!  If you have any tips for me learning the purl stitch please leave a comment below :D

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My new hobby

It all begins with a story.

About 3 weeks ago I had a random text from my friend asking if I wanted to take up knitting together, as random as that was, I actually thought that would be good fun and said yes.  Monday I finally got around to buying some knitting needles and wool - this would have happened sooner, but everywhere I went didn't sell them *shrugs*.

I went to John Lewis, picked up a set of needles and a couple of balls of cheap wool, nothing fancy just a plain colour and not too thick.

Then, Monday night I decided I was going to sit down and learn, but where on earth do I start!?  Well, like all good things in modern day life, it began with a search, I googled 'how to knit' and a video popped up.

Maybe this has taught me the wrong way, but it was easy to follow and I'm now knitting my first rectangle :P  If it's long enough, I'll try to turn it into a scarf, or maybe an endless scarf :)

Either way, I thought I'd share this with you as I know quite a few of my readers and fellow bloggers are knitters.

If you have any tips, or links to good websites you know of feel free to leave a comment below :)

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