And It's about my knitting efforts. Which so far are mixed, to say the least. Yes, I have finally conquered the knit stitch. . .Maybe I should start at the beginning.
Once upon a time, there was a woman who wanted to knit, really badly. However she couldn't mentally get how to "do it," due to her ADD and let's face it, most likely brain damage from a difficult birth. She even join a knitting guild in order to learn the basics, but while she did produce some stocking stitch, she couldn't figure out how to cast on even although the very nice ladies at the knitting guild showed her over and over. When one of the (really, they were) very nice guild ladies told her stitches were too loose, she gave up and never returned.
The Knitting Fates however kept thrusting examples of to die for knitting in her face. Alice Starmore, anyone? Finally, in a fit of insanity, she spend a great deal of money (she's on unemployment!), on the wondrous book Knitting For Dummies, and she finally grasp how to CAST ON!
She then bought a knitting loom and produced Christmas scarves for her family and friends on it. Go figure. . .
However, Her family gave her the knitting equipment of her sister's late mother in law for Christmas! There were many needles, including circulars. The Wool Pixie attempted to knit a hat on one. She then discovered the need for doubled tipped needles. Never the less, she loved the giant hair band she made with her two little hands and persisted in wearing it to her best friend's disgust. She then bought doubled tipped needles (not realizing there was some in her sister's gift) and went for hat #2. She then found out about decreasing, and various other things such of keeping track of which way the knitting was hanging. Also, point protectors, which she keeps losing, but do make a BIG difference to how many stitches she loses. Mind you, she's still losing some, but she hasn't figured out how yet.
Hat # 3 was suppose to be PERFECT, but wasn't. The Wool Pixie learned about increasing the rate of decreasing. Stupid nipple hat!
Hat #4 was actually a success as to being, well, hat shape. However, she tried the seed stitch and so it was a mix of seed stitch and one by one ribbing. The Wool Pixie is going to work on that.
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