What skills or lessons have you learned recently?
I have been attempting to learn to knit in the last few days. It is quite challenging for me. Have you ever seen that old Hunchback of Notre Dame movie where the old ladies are sitting in the front row excitedly watching people being guillotined? Their knitting needles clack furiously until they pause entranced when the blade drops. Then the furious clacking resumes uninterrupted till they pause for the next head to roll.
I definitely haven’t reached the point that my needles clack. I laboriously labor over every stitch. There is no fluidity in my movements yet. So far, my muscles have no memory. I will keep plugging along but I don’t believe I will be gifting handknit socks, scarves, or sweaters by Christmas.
Nutsrok 
Spoiler alert … The last two Stephanie Plum books I read (way up in the twenties) had her mother knitting when stressed. She was knitting a thing – about the width of a neck muffler, and last I read, approaching thirty feet long. She’d run out of yarn and grab another skein in another color and get right back at it. I think I could get behind a project like that. :)
It’ll get easier. Hang in there!!
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I do that with crocheted basket. I dump all the scrap yarn in a basket and just grab what comes next. I usually make one for fun between challenging projects. I’ll email you a pic.
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I admire you for starting this. I had to learn knitting in school. It was terrible. I was not made for knitting or any other thing that’s made of fabrics,needle and thread. So keep going!
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I will. I never quit a project. Did you ever make anything?
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After I did not have that subject at school anymore, I did not touche anything like that. But years later I started knitting a pullover for my boyfriend… it never got finished… lol. But I did make one or two embroideries. One did make it onto a pillow.
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Those hobbies don’t always fly.
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No, and it was not one I lost myself in passion in it 😄
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I’m hopeless at knitting!
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I really, really want to learn. Crochet is so caming for me.
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It’s amazing how different the two kinds of needlework can be, isn’t it? I’ve crocheted all my life since I was just a little girl ~ knitting turned out to be another whole animal!
But you’re right, once you get going not only does the physical rhythm and the periodic little needle flash help to send you off to meditation land, but also you get the comforting click of the two needles sliding together as well.
I think the key with relaxation in either one is working out a pattern that doesn’t require us to count too many stitches.
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That is absolutely true
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It never helps to have somebody much better at it learning beside you. Send him back to the shop.
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Chk your email associated with this site
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Okay, I will 👌
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Put your perfection goals aside and remember your new and learning. It’s going to be ugly and it won’t meet your standard but it’s your pratice run.
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It certainly isn’t pretty!
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