Are you a knitter?

Big Fat Frog and Froglet - I’ve just parcelled them up for the postman to collect tomorrow.

I am just trying to teach myself to knit. Only squares so far maybe it will turn into a blanket one day. DH died in the spring so it helps me keep busy in the evenings. I must persevere.

Remember that there are only two stitches, Tink - knit and purl. Everything else is about arranging them in different ways.

If you keep that in mind it all gets less daunting.

I'm so sorry to hear about your husband, and hope that having a new hobby helps you. Do sign up to Ravelry, and if you get stuck you can look on YouTube, or post on here for advice.

Fabulous photos Primrose53.
I can crochet but prefer knitting. With 15 grandchildren I've always got something on the go. The older ones don't want handknits but the little ones love them. I've just finished an orange cardigan for my GD who is 3. It's her favourite colour and you would never find one in the shops. We had our first GGD this year so I'm knitting for the next generation now!

I like knitting too, I used to do a lot of sewing - patchwork and embroidery, but have largely changed my allegiance since lockdown.

I'm making pair of very pale grey/lilac knee high socks at the moment in 3/1 with 4 DPNs. I've inherited an addictive gene somehow but at least it's not a destructive type.

Thankyou Doodledog for your encouragement.

Stuffed at the back of a cupboard, I recently found an ongoing back panel of a very intricate patterned cardigan. I'd totally lost where I was at and given up.
This was for GD then aged about 3 years, she's now 15! I cast it off and it's made a lovely Barbie blanket for a younger GD.

Nowadays I've swapped wool for fine wire and knit jewellery instead.

Wishes

Stuffed at the back of a cupboard, I recently found an ongoing back panel of a very intricate patterned cardigan. I'd totally lost where I was at and given up.
This was for GD then aged about 3 years, she's now 15! I cast it off and it's made a lovely Barbie blanket for a younger GD.

Nowadays I've swapped wool for fine wire and knit jewellery instead.

A few years ago I unearthed an unfinished cardigan in multicoloured pastels that was supposed to be for a dd at maybe 7. I unravelled it and turned it into baby doll clothes and a doll’s pram blanket for a little Gdd.
The dd it was originally for was by then about 38! 😂

I have been knitting since I was a child, knit baby garments for my sister when I was ten. I used to knit all my hiking socks ( 4 needles ) and bobble hats and even knit Fairisle sweaters for a ski trip when I was fourteen.
My DC had everything hand knit and all my adult life knit jumpers for family members and friends of family.
When my GC were born hand knits were refused, so my needles went into retirement and I have not made anything since.
I did find it very relaxing and used to knit whilst watching TV.

harrigran

I have been knitting since I was a child, knit baby garments for my sister when I was ten. I used to knit all my hiking socks ( 4 needles ) and bobble hats and even knit Fairisle sweaters for a ski trip when I was fourteen.
My DC had everything hand knit and all my adult life knit jumpers for family members and friends of family.
When my GC were born hand knits were refused, so my needles went into retirement and I have not made anything since.
I did find it very relaxing and used to knit whilst watching TV.

I am very surprised handknits were refused for your grandchildren. A lot of designer baby wear in the shops are designed to look like handknits.

If you knit stuff in modern colours like raspberry, moss green, grey (hate that personally) and mocha shades in a modern style most young Mums love them. The days of lacy stuff in apricot, turquoise and peach are long gone.

You could knit for SANDS who provide tiny blankets and bonnets etc for stillborn babies. A young couple near us lost their first child like this and were deeply touched that people they did not know had made lovely items for their baby.

As others have said, I was taught to knot at school. We were 7, and Friday afternoon was for 'craft', or possibly a time for teachers to decide what to do. Miss Green had a class of 30 children, and decided to teach us all to knit. How she did it I don't know, but as an adult I can see the enormity of her task .

Our knitting was put away at the end of the class, and not returned to until the following Friday, so what progress we'd made is likely to have been forgotten, but by the end of term all the girls had wonky pixie hoods - a folded rectangle with a long thin strap sewn underneath and tied at the chin - and the boys 'pot holders' (not pouches for their recreational substances, but things to slide onto pan handles if they were hot). What I remember most is the long queue at Miss Green's table while she patiently picked up dropped stitches, made encouraging noises and helped numpties like me who couldn't work out how to turn the needles to knit back again.

My mum has never enjoyed knitting, so if not for Miss Green I wouldn't have a cupboard full of sweaters and another full of various yarns. I don't know if she is still with us, or if Miss Green ever realised what she was starting on that Friday afternoon in 1966 . If she's still here she will be getting on, but I raise my needles to her - respect!

I was taught to knit although I'm sure my pixie hat was knotted up at times

Primrose53

Ha ha it worked. That is a Jane Crowfoot design. This is another of her designs and then a Helen Shrimpton design and some socks.

What a lovely design. Are those Tudor Roses?