Comments on: Who Me? Knit?

By: Venus Vaughn

Venus Vaughn — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:57:39 +0000

I crochet, but it steals my creativity.
I need to be creative in some way. Dancing, singing, writing or crocheting – and when I’m focused on one avenue of expression, I don’t need the rest as much.

I have to be careful when I crochet and make sure it doesn’t steal my brainpower and I don’t start plotting the intricacies of making my fabric work more beautiful, instead of spending that brainpower on making my written work more interesting.

By: Margay

Margay — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:31:57 +0000

I absolutely love to knit! In fact, half of the presents I gave for Christmas this year were hand knit by me.
Margay

By: Mariska

Mariska — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:55:54 +0000

I used to knit when I was a kid. you know the School’s work :) but then i just forgot about it till you asked here

one hobby that i discovered for the last one year, is baking !
now i love to bake. i just can’t recall why i’ve never thought about baking when i was a child/teen. ( i admit that i don’t want to go to kitchen to help my mom when i was a teen :) )

now, i can bake about 3 pan of brownies in a week !

By: ev

ev — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:36:44 +0000

I have tried it and it’s amusingly tragic. I am like your daughter- knitting backwards- but I never seem to pick the needles up the same way. Sometimes I knit right, sometimes I knit lefy. It was the same way when I was in karate- I could spar eqally well from either side and never knew which one when I started.

i will stick to my stained glass and cross stitch. LOL

By: julie

julie — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:05:51 +0000

That is really great yarn! Right now I’m cabling a scarf using baby grande alpacha, but I would love to do a project in Malabridgio.

By: Estella

Estella — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:08:22 +0000

I knitted for forty years, but arthritis has sidelined knitting and counted cross stitch as well.

By: Michele L.

Michele L. — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:53:11 +0000

I used to do a lot of crocheting. Haven’t done anything in years! Now I am a die-hard card maker and scrapbooking fan. I have been doing this for 5 years now and belong to a cardmaking club. Absolutely love it! We make 4 different cards every month. There are 12 of us and we eat, win prizes, talk and laught a lot! It is so much fun! You wouldn’t believe my collection of papers, stamps, inks, stickers, embellishemnts, etc! Enough to make cards for the rest of my life!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:49:19 +0000

I have never learned to knit. I always wanted too. Maybe that is something that I need to investigate.

Your story is very inspirational. Thanks for sharing your story. Mmaybe one day as a Friday prize. I would love a PINK scarf by you.

By: Lyn

Lyn — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:30:27 +0000

I knit and I cross-stitch. I prefer the cross-stitching, but did knit a new scarf last winter in the space of a week. I can knit things that are more challenging if I give myself the time, but scarves are more forgiving (I have a tendency to sometimes grow stitches and other time drop stitches).
My grandmother, a right handed person, attempted to teach me, a left handed person, to knit but I just could get the hang of it and ultimately taught myself. We always assumed that I knitted lefthanded (due to someone helping in my girl scout troop saying I knitted differently) but a couple of years ago an experienced knitter told me that I do knit righthanded and even taught me how to purl – which meant there were a lot more patterns that I could try.

By: Linda Rader

Linda Rader — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:25:09 +0000

My problem with knitting is the same as my writing: I always get the tension wrong.