Knitting

Today was my first day at Knit and, to tell the honest truth, I found it hell. The morning started quite well with hand knitting, where after several attempts, I eventually got my head around purl and knit stitch and managed to knit an extremely wonky rectangular shape, which I can say I was proud of. And so, feeling a knitting master at this point, I was looking forward to machine knitting in the afternoon. Finding myself in front of the unfriendly Praying Mantis look alike machines, I realised this would not be the easy knitting dream I imagined. Unlike hand knitting, you don't manually create each knit and so I was baffled by how the knit was being created, and therefore when a problem occurred I had no idea why and, most importantly, how to fix it. I spend the afternoon cursing the machine, whilst ripping of broken, tiny samples. However, I did learn how to plain knit and change the colour of the threads, and that's something I didn't know yesterday, so it hasn't all been bad. Tomorrow i will go in with an open mind and take it slowly. Knitting it a skill that needs to be learnt and I need to be patient and keep practising.

First hand knitted sample.

My first EVER machine knit sample. Long way to go.