[princessbelle]

Originally Posted by girl_dee

Yay for you! A knitting virgin? Well i can tell you that i tried once to knit something, and i wanted to stab myself in the forehead with the needle by the time i was done.

So i crochet, big easy blankets and scarfs.

THEN my friend came over and showed me how to knit! WOW it's much easier for me with someone showing me.

IMO there is something special about something someone made, like someone once said to me, *it's part of your life*

and when i make something for someone i put much energy and thought into it for them, so when they use it they get all of that good juju along with it.

Corny eh?

Yes!!! That is why i wanted to try. My family is full of artist. My mom paints. My brother was a real artist, i think you've seen his work on fb. I have cousins in symphonies scattered all over the US. Music teachers. Art teachers....on and on.

And then...there is me. lol. I've tried so many crafts. I can make jewelry but it's just not that fun to me. I have enough beads in my closet to make a necklace long enough to stretch to where you live.

Anyway, point is, i DO want something that is from my hands that i can pass on to someone. A part of my life, my love and my work. Corny, maybe. But i want it and i want it bad.

I'm sitting here trying to go by this book and the first stitch to learn is the casting stitch. I look at the pic and i'm not sure if i'm doing it right or not. That is what is so frustrating. What if i'm practicing it wrong?

I'm not to the point of poking my eyes out with the needle yet, but i have sat on them twice now.