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Thursday
Jul152010

Practice, practice...

Soccer--and swim and tennis and karate--practice for the older boys = more practice knitting for me.  More cotton yarn, this time worked in the 'bamboo' stitch for another dish cloth.

And even though I have no business doing this, I've cast on for my first lace project.  It's a free scarf pattern aptly named Branching Out

I have learned it is neither suitable for mindless knitting nor to be done without a pencil and the pattern chart at hand.  But I'm enjoying it nonetheless as I'm determined to learn how to read from a chart.  I've reminded myself how 'smart' I am countless times as I've ripped and restarted many, many times due to mysteriously dropped stitches.

Once it's done, I have set my sights rather high on the very thing that motivated me to relearn and begin knitting again in the first place:  the Shalom cardigan.  My close friend, Jenn, is a very experienced and skilled knitter and she says she'll do a knit-a-long with me.  There are so many blog posts about Shalom that even non-knitters have probably noticed it.  I plan to do the soulemama version which has sleeves and an extra button.  I am so excited! 

Sandra

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Reader Comments (2)

I love your projects! I had so much fun knitting our Christmas stockings - I have the "itch" to start another project. I think I am going to try my hand at crocheting to make the boys some winter hats. We'll see...

July 15, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterLeslie

I so wish I could muster the patience to learn to knit. I learned to crochet, finally, about 3 years ago. But the knitting... it just made me want to curse sometimes. More power to you. (smile) Thanks for visiting me and happy weekend to you!

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