Last Friday night, in the riveting town of Independence, three 22 year olds got rowdy. By three friends I mean two of my roommates and myself and by rowdy I mean we knitted. That’s right ladies and…more ladies (I’m fairly certain only females read my blog) I am proud to announce that I can knit. This was not a declaration I could have made at the beginning of that eventful Friday night.
My Pinterest-savvy roommates Alison & Wendy were busy crafting the day away and knitting their own headbands when I joined them in the living room. I sat staring at the TV twiddling my craft-inept fingers when future teacher Wendy asked if she could teach me how to knit. At first I thought, “Psh, yeah right, good luck with that!” but then I remembered it was only about 6pm on a Friday night and we had no other plans, so challenge accepted. My second challenge of the night came when my sister called and, after telling her my plans of learning how to knit, told me I should live-tweet my first knitting experience. The rest of the night went like this:
2 things I never do that shall occur tonight: knitting & frequent tweeting. Let the knitting live feed commence!
This is what my intense knitting face looks like:
Rows 1-3 down. Looks like a cat mangled some yarn. I hear it doesn't get better until row 4.
So, I think I forgot how to knit between rows 3 and 4. Sucks.
Somewhere around this point in the night I had to call on the knitting master herself. Celebrity knit from WB:
Oh dear, I began with 18 stitches in my knitting and now I'm at 25. I've managed to make an already difficult task 1.39 times harder.
I've taken to beating myself with knitting needles.
Holy knit this is hard! Realization: learning to knit may not be a one-night dealio.
After all that tweeting and tangling of yarn I ended up with this beauty:
I decided to call that good and cast off (check me out using real knitting terms). I knit a canoe. Or a banana holder. Or a bracelet. It's a very versatile piece of handiwork.
Despite my lack of knitting skills during that initial endeavor, I stuck with knitting and went on to buy more yarn in order start a trendy headband of my own the next night. That's right, not only did we stay in and knit on a Friday night, but we made it a double header and did it on Saturday night too. And the best part is our party multiplied (Shout out to Avery!):
In case you were curious, I've gotten a lot better in the last five days:
(Completed project one in purple and new project in progress in sage)
Truthfully I should have just taken it from Pheobe and known knitting was "Too hard! Too hard!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrWQO4SwGfw
best. post. EVER.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shout out! And sorry about all of my taunting ;)
ReplyDeletewhy did everyone else get named and i'm just "sister"?
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