Learning to Knit (A Blog A Day #4)

In September of last year, I decided that I wanted to learn to knit.  I have tried my hand at crochet a couple times in the past (and would like to give it a go again, sometime), but I really didn't know a single thing about knitting.  I signed up for a couple classes at Jo-Ann - Knitting 101 and a 202 class they called "Cowl Gone, Take Me Away"...Jo-Ann, trying to be clever!

Anyway, the 101 class taught the basic knit and purl stitches, and not much more.  I know you have to learn the basics first, but I like to make something, not just play around.  Luckily, it was only 3 days until I took the second class.  I finished about a third of this cowl in class, and worked on it the next 3 days until it was finished.

From this project, I learned that I am a very tight knitter - I can fit this over my head, but as you can see, it's very long but not very wide - so it looks pretty funny, and it's not comfortable at all.  Oh well, I was happy to finish my first knitting project, and I have learned to go up a needle size when starting new projects.