Inspired by all you crafty types in the blogosphere, I am intending to knit the sweater on page 9 of this catalogue for Beanie (sorry couldn't find the pattern in English).
It's a very very long time since I knitted anything - in fact I was a young slip of a girl when I last knitted a sweater. I'm going to have to learn some new French vocabulary to do this one. And I just had to remind myself how to cast on by checking some Youtube videos.
The wool is lovely, but expensive. Stupidly I didn't ask the price of the wool before buying it - and the total came to more than I would have spent on an actual readymade sweater for Beanie. Hopefully this will make me more determined to finish it.
In fact that is also why I am admitting to knitting it here. So I will be ashamed not to finish it. Feel free to shame me by asking in.... ummm.... a month's time? And if I do finish it, who knows what I may knit next - maybe something useful for someone else?
Knitting is indeed therapeutic and may help to make me less angry all the time (see last post).
I never learned to crochet in my youth for some reason, so that is still a total mystery to me.
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We must have the same vibes...I just got out my grandmothers sewing machine and sewed a hat for A...it's the first time I have sewed since I was 11.
I hope you enjoy it! Can't wait to see pics.
I hope the knitting is therapeutic for you. And, oh well, if you don't finish it. No shame here.
That is a really cute pattern! And doesn't look too hard...and yeah, most hand-knit stuff costs more than just *buying* one. Even if you buy carefully & buy yarn on sale & etc.....sigh. But there's nothing like the bragging rights of making it yourself!
By the way, you should join Ravelry, I found that it helped my motivation a lot. Of course you spend hours looking on there when you could be knitting, but...also maybe check if your yarn store has a 'knitting circle' or something, some night when you can go there *by yourself* & knit with other people. I really really am going to try to go to mine this week....really.
I hope one day I will learn to knit or crochet... some people have two left feet, I think I have toes for fingers. *roll eyes*
I hope it will be therapeutic AND fun for you... many people ard me knit, and seem to have a whale of a time with it!
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