Monster Afghan

[elk]

I like to think that make some day I'll break a leg or something and get a few weeks to just knit in bed!

DON"T SAY THAT!!!!! Can you knit in the evening? That's when I do it...I remember films we've watched by what I was knitting at the time....

[mountainchick]

I knit too! I also do it at night when there isn't much else to do, and I want to keep my hands busy and not snacking

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

DON"T SAY THAT!!!!! Can you knit in the evening?

No, I usually work in the afternoons and evenings just so that I can bike or walk in the morning. Just not enough hours in my life. It's ok....everything goes in cycles (pun intended).

[Tuckervill]

I started crocheting when I was 7. Made several afghans and other stuff, but in my 20s I got into cotton thread and doilies. I made hundreds and hundreds of doilies and snowflake type things. Then I stopped.

I had a group in friends in Memphis that I referred to as the Knitting Cult. I'd never knitted before. They were always always knitting wherever we went. I have some great wool socks that some of them made for me over the years. I LOVE each and every pair. But I resisted learning because of my carpal tunnel syndrome and just because I don't want to be in the Cult.

However, my DIL knits woolen pants for her baby to go over cloth diapers, infuses them with lanolin and they don't leak. They're great. When she was visiting a couple of weeks ago she dragged me to a yarn store. Long story short, I am now learning to knit socks! I should have picked another project to actually learn how to knit, but now that that learning curve is over, I'm looking forward to having my own wool socks that I knit myself! As soon as I learn to turn a heel. lol. (I've been using this site with videos--knittinghelp.com.)

The carpal tunnel was a bit of an issue, but I adjusted and I don't think knitting will be an issue unless I do it for a long time every day for a many days

Karen

[salsabike]

Yes yes yes. Knit and crochet (and weave). Love it. Am a total yarn fiend, as anyone who came to the TE/Bruno party will confirm.

[elk]

I also used to be a weaver ....(in fact, I think I need to sell my table loom so I can pay for my bikes )

Karen..I too was knitting socks...and got frustrated by the heel event too....

[carpaltunnel]

This is a coincidence...do any of you know where I can get a pattern for those gloves with no fingertips? After a 40 year hiatus I've decided to knit again.

The building I work in is so cold that people are wearing them. (Imagine coding programs with gloves on!) No one's obtained a pair recently so the lady who knit them has retired and moved away. Any pointers? Thanks!

[Zen]

My mom made a lot of these for me when I was in junior high.They were quite the thing but I somehow don't think they'll be making a comeback.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I started crocheting when I was 7. Made several afghans and other stuff, but in my 20s I got into cotton thread and doilies. I made hundreds and hundreds of doilies and snowflake type things. Then I stopped......

.....Long story short, I am now learning to knit socks! I should have picked another project to actually learn how to knit, but now that that learning curve is over, I'm looking forward to having my own wool socks that I knit myself! As soon as I learn to turn a heel. lol. (I've been using this site with videos--knittinghelp.com.)

Yes, I was crocheting all kinds of complex doilies in my 20's too!

Learning to knit by knitting socks is a heck of a way to get started! If you get stuck, go back to starting to knit something more simple. Sock heels are somewhat daunting even for intermediate knitters.