The Beginnings

Day One: How and when did you begin knitting/crocheting?

It actually took me a few starts before I started knitting and didn't stop.  

Step 1
My Mom used to knit when I was young, and I think I was probably 7 or 8 when she showed me the basics enough to make a tiny blanket for one of my toy horses.  I think I patiently knit it to about 2 x 3 inches before she took it off the needles for me.  I don't remember much about the experience and for whatever reason she didn't knit much after that and so neither did I.


Step 2

Yes, the infamous eyelash yarn scarf

Then in 2004 I bought purple fun fur yarn to glue onto part of a Halloween costume.  When Halloween had passed and I still had purple fun fur staring me down, I took the yarn to my Mom and borrowed some of her needles and had her help me get started on a simple scarf.  It wasn't a good project to reintroduce me to knitting -- the fun fur obscured the stitches so that it was very hard for a new knitter to see knits or purls or even count the stitches.  I managed to keep it going until a good scarf length, but by the end I found I was somehow increasing stitches on one side with every other row or so.  Of course the good thing about not being able to see the stitches was that I just finished the scarf, folded over the crooked increased edge until the scarf looked straight, and sewed it down flat so the ends matched.  It was actually a warm and comfy scarf and I wore it a lot -- probably much more than anyone with fashion sense would approve of.  But it obviously wasn't the best project and I didn't have any knitting aspirations beyond using up the yarn I already had so it didn't go any further.