Thankfulness thing 8
Dec. 30th, 2009 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abendgulesToday I'm thankful for knitting.
For years I felt a bit of a failure because I couldn't knit, especially since a couple of my cousins were brilliant at it - could design their own sweaters, knit Kaffe Fassett patterns (the 70% chocolate gateau of knitting designers).
My early attempts as a kid left me frustrated - I got purling, but not knitting, and so thought I'd failed.
However, after learning several other crafts as an adult, I came back to knitting, after receiving (actually asking for) a pair of sockyarn skeins that I spotted in my mum's stash. They were so perfect: flecked multicoloured self-patterning colours, so beautiful! and instantly I wanted to know how to make socks.
So I went away and started learning, mostly with Elizabeth Zimmermann's help (after consulting HE Sagadis). And I think knowing how other crafts work helped: realising that each craft has arcane language, expressions, and conventions, that are all perfectly clear to the users.
EZ, and the Internet.
Now I knit, and can make really nifty things, which is very satisfying.
For years I felt a bit of a failure because I couldn't knit, especially since a couple of my cousins were brilliant at it - could design their own sweaters, knit Kaffe Fassett patterns (the 70% chocolate gateau of knitting designers).
My early attempts as a kid left me frustrated - I got purling, but not knitting, and so thought I'd failed.
However, after learning several other crafts as an adult, I came back to knitting, after receiving (actually asking for) a pair of sockyarn skeins that I spotted in my mum's stash. They were so perfect: flecked multicoloured self-patterning colours, so beautiful! and instantly I wanted to know how to make socks.
So I went away and started learning, mostly with Elizabeth Zimmermann's help (after consulting HE Sagadis). And I think knowing how other crafts work helped: realising that each craft has arcane language, expressions, and conventions, that are all perfectly clear to the users.
EZ, and the Internet.
Now I knit, and can make really nifty things, which is very satisfying.
