A year in Knitting

With just under 48 hours left in the year, and the last hour spent on ravelry, I've been thinking about my knitting throughout the year.'

Up until this year, knitting was definitely an on and off thing, and I had never produced anything more than a scarf. I could only knit stockinette, and, although I'd tried, I couldn't honestly knit in the round. I knew the theory, and could even do it in practice, but not well, and usually I'd end up accidentally working in the wrong direction, giving me unintentional short rows!

Then in late February I found this really cute pattern on Ravelry, that involve only knitting a little square, and then stitching it up into a bunny. I finished it really quickly, and was really pleased with how well it came out.

Buoyed by this success, and by my Ravelry surfing, I decided to try cabling, just like I'd been dreaming of doing since nearly the start of my knitting days!!! It was so remarkably easy, and it was even more fun! I worked on the Irish hiking scarf for 4 balls of yarn, but by then I was bored, and it was nowhere near long enough, so I put it away for a while (and eventually frogged it for the yarn).

I got super busy with work and such for a while, so my knitting came to a halt for much of the late spring, early summer. Then for my birthday I convinced my mother to take me yarn shopping, where we bought the most wonderful sock yarns, which restarted my knitting again.

I learned how to magic loop and restarted a sock, and kept tinkering on that for the summer, but never much, because I'd get bored and distracted and put it down again.

Then finally in September I started and finished in no time at all Fetching. Buoyed yet again by the success of that, I started another project, the Great American Aran Afghan.

I shortly after attended my first ever knit-nite, and have been going to nearly every one in town ever since.

Somewhere in the last few months, I have learned so many more skills, and made some more projects! I now know how to do lace, and am nearly finished my first project. I got good enough at having a feel for knitting to be able to make mittens completely without a pattern. I realize I can now "read" my knitting, although I've been able to do that all year, but I couldn't for the previous 9.

I am really proud of what I've managed to accomplish this year, at least in terms of my knitting, and am confident that this coming year will only make me more of a knitter!