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    Loom knitting

    January 18, 2012 - By 
    Over that past month or so while I’ve been working out I’ve gotten some of the regulars there. I’ve heard them talking about their Tuesday knitting group so I asked If I could tag along because I seem to be knitting challenged.
    When I got to the coffee shop I saw most of the gals were using these weird circle things…huh, I thought to myself. So I was borrowed a loom and hook and sat down to learn.
    She said I should start with a dishcloth since they are very basic.

     

    It was so stinking easy I couldn’t believe it!! This it what it looked like this morning before going to workout. The gal who taught me said she’d show me how to bind it off there.
    Look how great it turned out!!

     

     

    I had some other chunkier yarn in my bag today so I had her watch me start a new one to make sure I remembered how.
    This will be a scarf…eventually.
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    Learning a new skill

    December 8, 2010 - By 

    Over the weekend we had guests…my brother-in-law and his girlfriend. I had asked her if she’d show me how to knit some time. She said sure if I’d show her how to crochet.  We both learned something very interesting, I knit like a crocheter and she crochets like a knitter. It was difficult for each of us to break the habits that we used for our previous yarn work.  I’ve been trying again and again but never get any further than this. I’ll keep trying.

    I also made this journal cover  the other day but as I was working on a second one…my sewing machine started acting goofy. I think the timing is off…or maybe the tension. I’m going to have to bring it in for a tune up. It’s about 25 years old and has never been looked at…it’s well over due.