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!
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!