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[Amo_Angelus]

*sneaks in and settles in a rather shadey corner and hides behind her pillow*

Hello...I'm very, very new. I literally learned to knit yesterday. Please don't bite me. My name's Angel and I'm 22 years old from England. I do a lot of craft work, although my main one is cross stitch. I won tickets through cross stitcher magazine and found myself down in London for the Stitch & Craft show where a very nice lady at the Crafts Club sofas offered to teach me to knit.

I haven't knitted since I was....under 8! But I vaguely remember enjoying it, until my sister and I found out that wool makes a very good spiders web and that our babysitter couldn't navigate her way through it and my mum banned wool in the house...cotton didn't work as well :P So I sat down and she went to look for pink wool for me. She ended up bringing me lilac as there was no pink left, although she was so eager to get me into it she did try and bring me a pink ball...someone else happened to be attached to it though :P

So I got started and she was really nice and really patient and I really enjoyed it. I didn't actually make anything, just learned a few stitches. Cast on, knit, Purl and cast off. But there's a local knitting club and I asked them if I can join them, they said yes, even though I'm a complete novice. So I'm hoping to get into it.

This is what I've done


See? Nothing special, but the wool is my sisters favourite colour, so my first project is to make her a scarf. The lady also gave me instructions as to how to do that :P

[Janet]

Hi

Great first effort.

Keep at it. Have you started your scarf yet?