Earlier this week, a coworker and I were talking about some things we could do that to ‘keep in touch’ after I left and started my new job. I like her, she’s good people – so I was game.
We decided, after spouting off random ideas for like 3 seconds, that we’d take a knitting class.
Yay!
Have I ever mentioned that I’m not crafty? In the event that I haven’t, I’ll go ahead and do that now. I’m not crafty. Shifty? Yes. Crafty? Not-so-much.
Anyway, Yay!
First, I pride myself on my ability to pick up things really quickly. I. Learn. Good.
But for the life of me, I could not grasp this knitting stuff.
Now I should say, the lady teaching the class probably shouldn’t be teaching. She starts with, “Ok, well, I don’t knit pretty. I’m self taught and I do it differently than any of the standard methods.” – Fine, I can deal with some randomly modified stitchery or whatever – my goal is to knit and I don’t figure it’s going to matter a whole lot how I get to the end, as long as I get there.
Yeah – uh…I felt like a complete and total freakin idiot. She would show us a step, and let me be clear, when I say show, she would cast off like it was a race and she had to first place or die and I’d just be sitting there, mouth agape wondering what in the crap just happened.
She did this a number of times. It was frustrating.
But not nearly as frustrating as learning that three of the six participants in the class were actually seasoned knitters. They had like blankets and stuff…they yank them out and start asking questions – and I’m sitting there thinking, “uh…beginner class, hello!?”
Towards the end of class, she shares with us that we can learn to knit by watching YouTube.com videos.
Wait…what? What’s the $56 for then? *sigh*
I came home, watched the same ‘casting off’ video eight times and finally got it – if all I had to do was cast off, I’d be in good shape…but I can’t ‘get’ the stitch.
It’s not clicking for me, but I’m going to keep trying. I have to, I have home work this week…but don’t ask me how I’m going to do it, because I’ll be danged if I can figure out how to do a stitch – much less enough of them to equal a 4X4 square.
Yeah…I think I might have to cheat and pay someone to do my homework for me…
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That is hilarious! I can’t knit for crap either. I’ve tried a hundred times and I just can’t pick up the rhythm. Crochet? Yes. Knit? Nope. I’ve tried the YouTube videos for naught. Sigh. Good luck. I hope you fair better than I!
I’m not terribly crafty, either. I taught myself to knit when my daughter (now 9) was a newborn, before there were videos, it was a nightmare, I shudder to think of some of the first words she heard me utter as she napped in my lap while I tried to knit over her head. (dude, that was some run-on sentence) It took me quite a while to… click… and then again I had to learn to purl. I’d describe the learning curve, for me, as very very steep, but once it clicked, it was much much easier to learn new things. I’m still not a champion knitter like some people, but it’s pleasing to me, so pfft