~look back and see...
...how far you've come...
...and you'll realize it's been...
...a lot further than you think~
So, I have known how to knit for about a year and a half now and I thought it was time to see how far I've come since I first started.
My first ever project was a garter stitch blanket for my sister, about the size of half of a regular bed pillow. A friend taught me how to cast on (using the e-wrap method) and do your basic knit stitch, but nothing else. I didn't know how to bind off properly... or even at all. I ended up just tying the stitches together. After that, I learned how to bind off properly. My next projects were garter stitch scarves. Just as simple. This time, I learned how to bind off correctly.
For awhile, I stopped knitting. I tried my hand at crocheting, which didn't work all that well. Over the summer, I started knitting again. I made Izzy the yarn snake for my sister. Pretty soon, I made a lined bag for a friend. This bag was mostly stockinette stitch, but it had stripes. On one side, there was a picture embroidered in duplicate stitch and the handle was cabled (just your simple c6f twisting every 8th row cable pattern). But still, I was quite proud of myself for that.
Soon, I moved onto bigger and better things. A few hats with simple colorwork... the first time I made the hat, I didn't mean to do the colors the way I did, but I ended up using Fair Isle technique, though I didn't know what I was doing. Miniature socks, toys, a coffee mug cozy for myself... But the most involved project to date has been the bag I made for my sister. Not only did it involve Fair Isle technique, but also charting a basic motif, assembly and crocheting.
One of the things I have been most pleased about is my ability to write patterns. I'm not good at it yet, but I have come to the point where I am currently working on two patterns of my own (Delaney the Amigurumi Squid and the Veritas Fair Isle bag) and I have finished two patterns (Athena the Owl and Tiger's Little Bag of Oddities) and performed test knits on each, not withstanding the seed stitch dishcloths or the scarf I made for Athena, which is your basic p2k2 ribbed scarf in an appropriate size for a stuffed animal. I was told by a friend who knits that my patterns are logical.
Sometimes it doesn't seem like you've come very far until you take a step back and look at the big picture.
My first ever project was a garter stitch blanket for my sister, about the size of half of a regular bed pillow. A friend taught me how to cast on (using the e-wrap method) and do your basic knit stitch, but nothing else. I didn't know how to bind off properly... or even at all. I ended up just tying the stitches together. After that, I learned how to bind off properly. My next projects were garter stitch scarves. Just as simple. This time, I learned how to bind off correctly.
For awhile, I stopped knitting. I tried my hand at crocheting, which didn't work all that well. Over the summer, I started knitting again. I made Izzy the yarn snake for my sister. Pretty soon, I made a lined bag for a friend. This bag was mostly stockinette stitch, but it had stripes. On one side, there was a picture embroidered in duplicate stitch and the handle was cabled (just your simple c6f twisting every 8th row cable pattern). But still, I was quite proud of myself for that.
Soon, I moved onto bigger and better things. A few hats with simple colorwork... the first time I made the hat, I didn't mean to do the colors the way I did, but I ended up using Fair Isle technique, though I didn't know what I was doing. Miniature socks, toys, a coffee mug cozy for myself... But the most involved project to date has been the bag I made for my sister. Not only did it involve Fair Isle technique, but also charting a basic motif, assembly and crocheting.
One of the things I have been most pleased about is my ability to write patterns. I'm not good at it yet, but I have come to the point where I am currently working on two patterns of my own (Delaney the Amigurumi Squid and the Veritas Fair Isle bag) and I have finished two patterns (Athena the Owl and Tiger's Little Bag of Oddities) and performed test knits on each, not withstanding the seed stitch dishcloths or the scarf I made for Athena, which is your basic p2k2 ribbed scarf in an appropriate size for a stuffed animal. I was told by a friend who knits that my patterns are logical.
Sometimes it doesn't seem like you've come very far until you take a step back and look at the big picture.
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