Knitting!

I was very excited to knit - I've done it once before when I was younger and I remembered the basics, but I had never started and ended it myself. We worked by playing the video and then pausing it to catch up. Out of the three of us, Julie had the most knitting experience, which shows in her swatch.

Our swatches (mine is on the right)

Once I got the hang of the basics, the knitting was relatively easy. The only problem I had was that I kept (somehow) adding more rows each time. The video told us to do 15 by 15, but I ended up with at least 30 "new" stitches. I also had a good number of holes throughout and I made my stitches really tight, which made knitting the next row pretty difficult. The next time I knit, I will try to make looser loops for better results. I also will try to stop making more rows. This experience was very instructive in that I learned how to knit (which is very fun and relaxing!), but it also showed me that I can google almost anything and find a good video to demonstrate it. One of my goals going forward is to try to do more of this self-guided learning on my own.

The knitting squad

Made my lopsided swatch into a sleeping mask!