knit and crochet blog week day 2

So it's time for day 2 of knit and crochet blog week!

Blog about a pattern or project which you aspire to. Whether it happens to be because the skills needed are ones which you have not yet acquired, or just because it seems like a huge undertaking of time and dedication, most people feel they still have something to aspire to in their craft. If you don’t feel like you have any left of the mountain of learning yet to climb, say so!

I've never knitted a shawl, or a pair of socks or a blanket, though these last weeks I have been knitting A4 sized patches for an Art Student in Limerick, who will use 3000 patches to make a giant wall hanging which will be hung in a public space in Limerick. So I guess I could tackle a shawl, a pair of socks (are they not itchy and too thick with shoes?) and a blanket.
What do I aspire to otherwise? - deciding what exactly to knit with the yarns I have in my knitting box and knitting them! that blue cotton, the lime-green slubby wool, the dark brown homespun wool I bought from a spinning teacher, and the blue,red and white cotton I've had for a while...
I also would like to do a bit of spinning, but that might get too addictive, also time- and money- and space-consuming, not to talk about what to do with the yarn I might spin.... best to wait a bit to realise that dream...

Annars så går livet vidare...
jobbet, matcher, tvätt, psykologikursen och en långhelg nu till helgen, mumsfilibaba!
dåså, dags att stå upp från datorn...
ha det bra
liz

Knit and Crochet Blog week, Stickning och Virkning BloggVecka

Hello all, here's an idea from eskimimi, try this link for more info.

eskimimi

I read about it on Cloudberry's blogg, which is here

Let's tackle question 1:
Starting Out

How and when did you begin knitting/crocheting? was it a skill passed down through generations of your family, or something you learned from Knitting For Dummies? What or who made you pick up the needles/hook for the first time? Was it the celebrity knitting ‘trend’ or your great aunt Hilda?


I started knitting when I was in primary school, in about 2nd or 3rd class. My mother was our class teacher and she taught all the girls to knit, at that time boys were not taught to knit. I remember vividly the shape of the first piece I knit, it looked almost like a triangle, I must have unknowingly increased stitches as I knitted and the top was decidedly wider than the bottom.
I went on to develop a love of knitting and my mum took me and my sister to buy wool to knit a sweater. I remember that long baggy grey sweater. I also knit an Icelandic sweater in my early teens. I found the pattern in a bag of knitting stuff last week. I love knitting and am now getting back into it. I love the way I can do it anywhere, it's very calming, it's forgiving, you can always rip back a bit and change your mind. Today i knit at home over breakfast, at lunch at work, after work listening to my children's homework, in the car, in front of the computer and on a short walk!!! That's a first, I've never knit whil out walking before...

Man kan vara med i Knit och Crochet Blog Week utan att man skriver på engelska, läs mer om det hos eskmimi.
Jag vet att många av er som stickar eller virkar redan har ett stort nätverk i bloggosfären, men det här kan vara roligt att vara med i.



God natt för nu,
good night,
codladh samh...
liz