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March 05, 2008
TGIW
Thank goodness it's Wednesday so I can just stick some random stuff in here. I'm working my butt off lately but somehow I don't have much to show for it yet so there's not even any good knitting to put on here yet. I know it's March and nearly spring for many of you, but for those of us up here, it's still winter, which is why I'm about to knit some mittens. I lost one of my Wintergreen Mittens so I'll be making a new pair. I've also got some socks going, but they're nothing thrilling. I'm just kind of treading water. Trying to sleep. Trying to eat. Trying to mom. Trying to breathe and still get everything done.
How cute is this - Whenever I teach people to knit, I tell them to keep their first knitting and cherish it and place it on an altar and give it offerings of fruit and candy. Nobody does. A lot of people don't even bring their first knitting home with them. But someone finally listened to me. Check out what Myriam did.
It's hanging on her wall. How cute. Myriam's pretty cute too. Plus, she's a pretty great knitter now. it's hard to believe she only learned in the fall.
Can't bear to listen - Ready, Set Knit is doing a knitalong with my Bird in Hand Mittens and to kick it off, they interviewed me for the podcast the other day. The interview is still too fresh in my mind so I can't bear to listen to it yet. You can if you like, just don't tell me if I sound like an idiot. Irene (my friend of 10 years) listened and said it was fine. I'm just going to take her word for it for now because I'm always shocked to hear my own voice when it's not inside my head.
What is one supposed to talk about when one can't talk about what one is working on? I'll have to finish that out or my blog is going to go down the tubes.
Posted by kate at March 5, 2008 02:18 PM
Comments
Kate, you were great! But where are you? We miss you here. Everything ok?
Posted by: Sara in WI at March 21, 2008 02:07 AM
I very much enjoyed the interview! And what a great idea about saving your first knit. I actually gave away the first sweater I made.
Posted by: Jennifer at March 12, 2008 06:10 PM
Hey!!! That's my swatch :)
I didn't even know you had taken a picture of it...
How sweet.
I'm missing our Tuesday nights together.
Posted by: Myriam at March 11, 2008 07:55 PM
You know, I say the same thing when I teach people how to knit. They usually give me very odd looks. I always wish I kept mine, but then I was 8. How was I supposed to know it'd be important?
Posted by: Chelle at March 10, 2008 05:39 PM
Kate,
I too had problems listening to myself. When you hear yourself talking, you are hearing vibrations that come thru the bones in your head as well as the input from outside your head coming in thru your ears. Everybody sounds odd to themselves because of this. Just accept everyone's opinion that you sound fine...because you do. :-))
Posted by: Walk2Sing at March 10, 2008 11:47 AM
You sound great! Lost a mitten? You poor kitten!
Posted by: Manise at March 8, 2008 07:26 PM
I liked your interview on Ready Set Knit. It sounded like you have a knitting and designing style that I can relate to.
Posted by: Janice at March 7, 2008 10:34 PM
I am not sure what my first piece of knitting was...I was approximately 4 when I made it. Probably a rectangle that my mom sewed into a purse, or a coaster, or something.
When I teach people to knit I used to have them make a scarf. Then would ask them to donate it to homeless ministries, where warmth is cherished over beauty. Now, I have learned that the sheer tenacity to finish a scarf is often lacking in first-timers. We make dishcloths instead...so if its funky, who cares? It's just going to de-gunk dirty dishes after all!
Posted by: Megan at March 7, 2008 03:04 PM
Claudia, who just finished a lovely pair of those mittens, and I would like to know when you are going to do the Bird-On-The-Finger Gloves.
'Cause we'd both knit 'em.
Posted by: Lee Ann at March 6, 2008 10:44 PM
I love this idea. I enjoy reading your blog! My 12 year old daughter is getting to be a quite a knitter, I wish I had saved the first things she knit. Maybe, since I am so (not) organized, I will come across something tucked in a drawer some day.
I hope this isn't completely rude to ask on a knitting blog, but I am wondering how I find forums for asking questions to knitters? I am looking at your very appealing Sunrise Jacket, which I downloaded, reading over the instructions, and just wondering if I take it on (I know I can, I know I can) and get stuck somewhere, if there is a place on the internet where I can go and look at comments or something?
Yes, I am over 40, and showing it! Why, when I went to school, we didn't even HAVE PC's! yada, yada, yada.
Posted by: Donna at March 6, 2008 07:04 PM
Take up crochet and talk about that!
Posted by: valentina at March 5, 2008 10:50 PM
I haven't listened yet, but I love the tutorial, and I love the pattern.
Posted by: Cathy at March 5, 2008 09:48 PM
I listened to it today (saw it on my Webs feed before I read this post), and the only complaint I can come up with is that your segment was too short!
Posted by: Sharon at March 5, 2008 09:43 PM
Oh, my - my first knitting was 40 years ago - a varigated acrylic scarf that was at least 8 feet long, and had holes big enough to drive a truck thru.
It was a bad enough experience, that I stopped after that project, and picked up knitting again a year ago - And I love it now, and have wonderful tension - go figure.
Posted by: Jeanne at March 5, 2008 09:36 PM
I love the idea of framing your first piece of knitting... that is an idea I might have to steal for my daughters first knitting as I have just started to teach her to knit.
Sadly I have no idea what happened to my first knitting - I was around 8 or 10 when my mum and Nanna first taught me to knit - definitely less than 11 anyway as I was still in Junior school. I remember making a teddy-bears scarf, and it was all holey where I dropped stitches and sometimes I had fewer or more stitches than I had cast on so it was all wavy and wiggly.
I wonder what happened to it in the end.
Posted by: tajhia at March 5, 2008 06:24 PM
That's a GREAT place to put her first knitting! I don't know whatever happened to mine, since I was about 8 when I learned, but I DID knit a "collar" for a stuffed dog whose neck was wearing out--we always held him by his neck so we could move his head and make him look interested in what was going on--and I still have both the dog and the sewn-on collar. (In an unfortunate, variegated green acrylic, but, well, it was the 70s.)
Posted by: --Deb at March 5, 2008 06:11 PM
I don't think I'll frame my first piece of knitting - it's a well-used dishcloth. Although some might think it art, I think it's just kinda scrungy.
I love the idea of framing the first piece of knitting... I still have my first piece of cross-stitch - a tiny owl in a wee frame. :)
Posted by: Steph VW at March 5, 2008 04:40 PM
You sound absolutely fine. Funny and normal.
Posted by: Amy at March 5, 2008 04:00 PM
