Thanks for this. I went and bought a couple of needles, some yarn and I’m working on a scarf with just the beginner stuff. It’s chonky yarn, so I suppose it’s going pretty quickly (even if I’m slow). I looked at the instructions for the cable knit one and I’m confident I’m many many hours and items away from getting to that skill level. Thanks for breaking it to me gently. ;)
That’s amazing! I am so impressed you took it up and are making a scarf already! The first scarf is always special, even if it comes out wonky.
You can also practice by making washcloths, which takes less time than a scarf and can have fun desings made with just knitting and purling. Plenty of free patterns online!
It doesn’t involve purling, just slipping a stitch from left to right needle while holding the yarn in front of the stitch, and it creates a nice ribbed effect.
And if you start to really get into knitting, I recommend getting on Ravelry! You can look up patterns (and filter by free and the kind of pattern you want), and keep track of your projects.
I don’t even know what purling is yet, but I have a couple of inches of a scarf down using the basic slip knot stitch. I’ve had to undo some mistakes as I got lucky figuring out how to do those and I think I got it a bit too tight for some stitches, but it’s going! My first attempts I had to unravel like an inch of stitches already done 3 times because I got careless and lost stitches off the needles or something wasn’t quite right. So I’ve definitely done a few stitch on’s at this point even if it’s my first scarf. :) Now I have a rythm and like 10cm of scarf.
I’ll look at the video - thanks. At this rate it will be a month before I have something visible. Just doing keeping my hands busy while watching other things. Thank you for the generous and thoughtful responses!
Thanks for this. I went and bought a couple of needles, some yarn and I’m working on a scarf with just the beginner stuff. It’s chonky yarn, so I suppose it’s going pretty quickly (even if I’m slow). I looked at the instructions for the cable knit one and I’m confident I’m many many hours and items away from getting to that skill level. Thanks for breaking it to me gently. ;)
That’s amazing! I am so impressed you took it up and are making a scarf already! The first scarf is always special, even if it comes out wonky.
You can also practice by making washcloths, which takes less time than a scarf and can have fun desings made with just knitting and purling. Plenty of free patterns online!
For your second project, you could always try this scarf: https://www.purlsoho.com/create/2014/09/12/no-purl-ribbed-scarf/
It doesn’t involve purling, just slipping a stitch from left to right needle while holding the yarn in front of the stitch, and it creates a nice ribbed effect.
And if you start to really get into knitting, I recommend getting on Ravelry! You can look up patterns (and filter by free and the kind of pattern you want), and keep track of your projects.
I don’t even know what purling is yet, but I have a couple of inches of a scarf down using the basic slip knot stitch. I’ve had to undo some mistakes as I got lucky figuring out how to do those and I think I got it a bit too tight for some stitches, but it’s going! My first attempts I had to unravel like an inch of stitches already done 3 times because I got careless and lost stitches off the needles or something wasn’t quite right. So I’ve definitely done a few stitch on’s at this point even if it’s my first scarf. :) Now I have a rythm and like 10cm of scarf.
I’ll look at the video - thanks. At this rate it will be a month before I have something visible. Just doing keeping my hands busy while watching other things. Thank you for the generous and thoughtful responses!