My knitting Journey.

I am back! Well, I am back knitting. I learnt how to knit when I was about 13. I think. My Grandma taught me how to knit by giving me two giant skeins of yarn. A creamy colour and then a blue which I am not too sure how to describe. And a pair of chunky needles, probably about 8 or 10mm. All she taught me was how to knit. Literally, just knit stitch. This meant I couldn't start or finish my own pieces without help. Naturally this frustrated me, so my mum, who is also a knitter but only knows when she picks up her needles and plays about for awhile... taught me how to cast on, bind off and how to purl.

Purl, to me, at that point was hideous. It didn't make sense, so I forgot I knew it and just carried on with knit and the ability to cast on and off. My mum also helped me learn how to change colour, but only in the case of stripes, because like, probably about 80%+ of all knitters, the first 'major' project is a scarf.

I wanted to make multiple. I had all these ideas! I wanted a red and black striped scarf and then a grey and black striped scarf. I'll just add this here, I never finished either, slight lie, I went back to the grey and black yarn and did make a scarf but not how I'd envisioned, more later. And then! I decided I NEEDED a Doctor Who scarf! I think this is probably another project attempted by the geeky knitter. So I told my nan to get me lots of little balls of lots of different colours. And then I began my scarf. I stopped half why through knitting it and left it for probably about three years to which I then just binded off. It is very unlike Tom Baker's scarf. But it was close enough... At the time.

I wanted to insert a photo of me, a particularly bad photo at that too! But I can't seem to find it. Probably for the best! If I am remembering the photo correctly, I also have this jumper which has two different names from different friends. One is 'sick jumper' and the other is 'Grandad jumper'. It was from a charity shop...

I also had ideas for more complex projects. I wanted to knit a pink bunny bag, which I may do one day... And some other things. But I pretty much put my needles down until I was about 15. I only picked them up briefly. I made a miniature hat that resembled Pucca because I was... I don't fully remember, but I was talking about different dolls and Blythe dolls have cute little accessories! In hindsight I should have taken that much further. 

PUCCA! PuccaClub

After that, I left my knitting needles alone. I occasionally would pick them back up and then just put them back down. And that was a pattern until the end of my first year at uni, the start of my second year of uni. This is when I say I got into knitting properly. This is when I actually started knitting stuff and finished them. I'll do another post of them soon as I don't have access to them right now. But take a look at my ravelry for some photos (here).

But to finish this post! I took close to another year hiatus from knitting because a lot of stuff happened, some were pretty bad, some where okay, but everything was pretty tainted by the bad. I am happy to be knitting again! And improving. I am currently writing two of my own patterns! One I intent to sell the item itself, the other, I'd probably be happy to sell the pattern, assuming it turns out well.

The last thing I want to add is. this is my knitting journey, notice how there are years of gaps but it does not change the fact that I am a knitter and I love it. I have so much yarn it is crazy, but knitting is a release of negative energy, it relaxes you and helps you forget about the bad things. It can be hard to get into, but once you are there, it is great and very much worth it.