Comments on: Learning to Knit…Again http://blog.berroco.com/2012/11/14/learning-to-knit-again/ a blog hosted by norah gaughan & amanda keep Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ashleypalumbo http://blog.berroco.com/2012/11/14/learning-to-knit-again/#comment-5203 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:38:04 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/?p=2795#comment-5203 Thank you! I know I’m lucky to have such experienced knitters helping me.

]]> By: Voie de Vie http://blog.berroco.com/2012/11/14/learning-to-knit-again/#comment-5202 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:41:57 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/?p=2795#comment-5202 Well your headband turned out super! Yeah for Norah and Amanda! Yeah for not giving up!

Now back to your regularly-scheduled crochet … :)

]]> By: ashleypalumbo http://blog.berroco.com/2012/11/14/learning-to-knit-again/#comment-5199 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:11:47 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/?p=2795#comment-5199 Thanks Susan! It sounds like your blankets are lovely with or without the added posies!

]]> By: Susan http://blog.berroco.com/2012/11/14/learning-to-knit-again/#comment-5198 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:55:32 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/?p=2795#comment-5198 Ashley, if it makes you feel any better…..mistakes, and just like the ones you made, aren’t necessarily limited to beginners…….I’ve knitted the very same baby blanket over 50 times, and it’s my own design, so I can’t blame the designer….every blanket or so, I get some strange looking trellis pattern. The first few times, I frogged and corrected. Now I just cover the mistakes with little crocheted posies. Folks think I designed it that way. Nobody knows. Just me. And now you. Second go around turned out beautifully…good job!

]]> By: ashleypalumbo http://blog.berroco.com/2012/11/14/learning-to-knit-again/#comment-5197 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:22:22 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/?p=2795#comment-5197 I’m fond of “design changes” too! They help personalize the project. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: ordinarybutinteresting http://blog.berroco.com/2012/11/14/learning-to-knit-again/#comment-5196 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:10:43 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/?p=2795#comment-5196 Great read Ashley – you had me giggling the whole time! I’m in a reverse situation than you in that I’m crocheting again for the first time in…um…I dunno…6 or 7 years? I’m making a Tunisian Entrelac afghan and so far there are 2 oopsies, both noticed a row of blocks later. I’m leaving them and referring to them as “design changes”.

Keep up the great work – and keep sharing with the rest of us :-)

]]> By: ashleypalumbo http://blog.berroco.com/2012/11/14/learning-to-knit-again/#comment-5195 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:49:24 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/?p=2795#comment-5195 I’m glad I didn’t give up on this one, but you’re right, some projects aren’t worth the frustration. You can always find new projects for good yarn!

]]> By: PurrlGurrl http://blog.berroco.com/2012/11/14/learning-to-knit-again/#comment-5194 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:36:17 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/?p=2795#comment-5194 About two weeks ago I started a shawl that’s mostly stockinette with a lace border. I’d knit the pattern twice before and got two beautiful shawls in a relatively short time with no major glitches. Well, the third time into that pattern was a nightmare. The half-done shawl was full of twisted, reverse stockinette, and dropped stitches and the stitch count was way off (this was in the stockinette portion before even starting the lace).

I frogged and started over. Same problems. Frogged again. Even worse screw ups after starting a third time. Frogged one last time. The yarn just does NOT want to be that shawl (it couldn’t possibly have been me, could it?). The yarn’s been put aside now to be tapped for a different project later.

Some projects just seem meant to be and some aren’t. If things keep going horribly wrong (as with the shawl), it could be time to rethink and regroup. Knitting or crocheting disasters can happen to the most experienced of us at any time. The key is to not let them get us down, then move on to something else. Don’t think of it as a defeat. Instead, think of it as a judicious use of knitting (or crocheting) time.

]]> By: ashleypalumbo http://blog.berroco.com/2012/11/14/learning-to-knit-again/#comment-5193 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:02:29 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/?p=2795#comment-5193 Thanks Kristen! Getting started is the hardest part. Now I can’t wait to start another project!

]]> By: Kristen Ashbaugh Helmreich http://blog.berroco.com/2012/11/14/learning-to-knit-again/#comment-5192 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:58 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/?p=2795#comment-5192 It’s always a challenge getting started again! Good for you for pushing through AND correcting your mistakes! So many people get frustrated and just stop. Good luck on your next project! :)

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