Starting over...

When my mother-in-law Margaret was visiting us a couple weeks ago, she helped me back up with my itty-bitty mistake (translation: she brilliantly knew where I'd made my mistake, unraveled to the row before the mistake, and picked up the pattern at exactly the right place!), and together we finished my project. We both concluded that the design, from a beginner's knitting book, was most definitely NOT a beginner's design! I bought two buttons to attach (hoping faux pearls on light green yarn will not look too girly for my baby boy), so once someone shows me how to do that (I do have a knitting cousin visiting in a few weeks!), I will finally post pictures! Other than the buttons, I'm done!

As soon as Margaret left, I started another dishcloth all by myself. I felt silly starting a dishcloth after these beautiful booties, but I do really need to practice my beginning skills. I'm almost done this cloth (not getting to it every day...I don't think it would take even ME 2 weeks to knit one dishcloth!), and maybe I'll make a couple more before trying something brave on my own...like a scarf. Kidding. Any suggestions for an easy project that would match newborn booties? I have a lot of yarn left over. OK! Maybe I'll be blogging a bit more often now! :)

Re-learning

Well, it's been so long since I've knitted that my blog is actually quite up to date. April?! Wow. I had brought my itty bitty project to Oregon to have Katrina have a look in May, and somehow it didn't happen. (Hmm--people have lives? You want to actually catch up with your friends when you're visiting? You have a doctoral degree to finish?) I brought the project to Oregon AGAIN when we went for graduation in June, and again, the opportunity never came up to have my mother-in-law help me. I brought it to Calgary in July, and the same thing happened. We were hardly home.

I pretty much decided to start over, since I can't fix it myself (and I'm pretty sure it's unfixable), but I've forgotten how to cast on, knit, purl, decrease and increase, and bind off. Luckily, Katrina sent me her first knitting book: Knitting for Dummies! I'm actually really looking forward to starting over.

And maybe I'll even make an itty bitty thing or two for my own itty bitty one arriving in November! :)