I'm really pleased with it I've got to say, although it's more narrow than I was expeciting it will still look lovely (and I couldn't bring myself to increase the width and making it an even longer project!) :) I didn't think it would ever take off as I started making it 5 times before I got past a few rows of pattern without totally losing track and messing up, but once I got into the swing of it I've got the pattern remembered and am sailing through...well, I nearly hit a metaphorical iceberg a few days ago and had to unpick a few rows but managed to get back on track and haven't got one single error or dropped stitch....yet! :)
In fact that's my main focus to start this year, practising how to identify the stitches by paying attention to my knitting and learning how to become more methodical with my corrections and not just unravelling a few whole rows until I can pick up how many stitches I had and just squint my eyes while I re-knit a row hoping it will work out!! I'm confident I can identify which way a stitch should lie on the needle now as I've had to undo a few stitches here and there and learnt from making mistakes, always the best way I find :) Does anyone out there have any tips on how to learn from your knitting mistakes and to not be as much of a 'wing and a prayer' type of gal?
I've always loved all crafts but there's something about knitting that seems to have just got me hooked and I'm hoping, in time, I'll become a pro! I've been looking at new techniques too and have got really excited about trying some of these but am concious I don't want to start loads of separate projects and get none of them finished so I'm in the process of deciding which I'll start alongside this one I'm currently working on - the options at the moment are fairisle (which I had a bit of practice on with the stockings), intarsia (this seems to be a bit more flxeible than fairisle as the yarns aren't attached on the wrong side of the work so I might choose this method for a cardigan/jumper...) and cable knitting!....then of course there is knitting in the round and four needle knitting which I've never had a go at....so many ideas!
I was also thinking of making the site more interactive rather than just being me talking about my projects and boring you all with progress pictures :) All I've come up with so far is to start including patterns, I think I might go back and add links to the patterns I have used on each project so far and maybe add in a section for patterns I collect along the way. I could also have a little section on methods I'm collecting along the way but I feel that I should try these out myself first to see if I can understand the instruction before trying to distribute them to others - there have been so many stitches and techniques along the way which, being a novice, I haven't encountered before and have resorted to the wonders of Google and YouTube to help me out and I've struggled to find good instructions on a few of them so thought it might be useful to save them for future reference and I could pool these together for you.
What do you think and do you have any more ideas for things you'd like to see on here?
All suggestions welcomed!
Until the next time...
Mrs K
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