Knitting is a good skill to learn (Knitting)

Member Name: dustmad

Product:	Knitting
Date:	15/01/09 (16 review reads)
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Advantages: You can knit your own clothes

Disadvantages: the cost of wool

My mum and my nan were both avid knitters when I was younger. I always remember them swapping over knitting patterns and left over pieces of wool. There was never a moment that my mum would not have a pair of knitting needles in her hands. I naturally took an interest in it too. I remember my mum knitting an aran jumber, and it looked so complicated. I didn't want to get into all the technical stuff, just to be able to make a scarf would have made me happy. It took me a while to get used to holding the needles, and I would find them fiddly and my hands would ache. After a while I got used to it, and made my first scarf for my teddy bear. I loved it. I did have big holes in it where I had dropped loads of stitches, but I didn't care, I had made it!! As time went on I tried to be more adventureous, and I knitted my own jumper. I went with my mum to the wool shop and chose all the colours I wanted, and I sat down with a piece of graph paper and designed a picture of Winnie the Pooh for the front. It took me ages, But I was so chuffed when I had finished it, and never wanted to take it off. When I look back now at the photos of me wearing it I cringe, but at the time it was great. I think that knitting now is far too expensive. The cost of wool is ridiculous, no wonder it is a dying art!!

Summary: Knitting is a great skill to have, its a shame more peolpe don't do it