Knitting

“Knitting a whole-ass sweater felt like a huge step up after just doing a hat, and yet…it was the perfect step up! On my first attempt, I misread a step fairly early on in the pattern [...] and didn’t really see a way to undo it. So I just started over! I remember being super bummed at the time, but it taught me an important lesson: that it’s often way easier to just start over, and that projects almost always look considerably better the second time around, even if it’s just redoing a cast-on or a cuff.”

“So this is my first time ever knitting and wow was this a learning experience. [...] I very foolishly thought I could finish this with 10 days before Christmas and was very quickly humbled by how much longer it takes to knit something compared to crocheting. [...] I am definitely interested in knitting something again, but it might be some time before I do as this was definitely a job to complete and have been humbled by this process.”

“The next project I (technically) completed was a dog sweater from Purl Soho. It was way, way harder than I expected, or than a dog sweater has any right to be. It involved a ton of short rows using the wrap-and-turn technique, which is annoying…but it turned out to be great, in a way, because it was a small project and the instructions were well-written compared to most patterns that utilize short rows. I also really liked the Lion Brand Yarn Wool-Ease Thick and Quick yarn [...] It’s fairly inexpensive but feels nice in your hands, is super easy to knit with, and always a lot better than I expect it to.”