If You Can Knit and Purl, You Can Do Anything Else, Too Knitters kept telling her they would like to knit her shawl, if only they were a better knitter.īeth rightly pointed out that this idea is self-defeating nonsense. I hadn’t given it much thought in quite a while, but a while ago, my friend Beth posted on Instagram about some feedback she’d gotten on her gorgeous pattern, the Freda Faye Wrap (Ravelry link). ![]() I just tried things that looked interesting. Whether it was colorwork or a sock, it didn’t matter. Because I was a beginner and so were all my friends, every new thing was equally challenging. I’m sure there was a combination of factors involved here, among them that I was young and living alone (so had lots of free time), and I was in a time of life (my first year of law school) when I was especially open to trying new things and feeling like I knew nothing.īut I think there’s also value in not knowing what to be afraid of. I knit my first sock and my first sweater less than six months after picking up the needles for the first time. We learned new skills from one project to the next, explored voraciously, and crashed along with joyful chaos. We were all experimenting, learning, and growing rapidly. See, I was a beginner knitter, but most of my knitting friends weren’t much further along. ![]() In many ways, I had arrived right on time, and it led to a lifetime of knitting without fear. ![]() It was the heyday of knitting blogs and Ravelry had just hit the scene. When I learned to knit back in 2007, I mostly learned on my own.
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