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October 5, 2006

Now She’s Knitting

My poor family. They may never have another home cooked meal, clean clothes, etc.

Dare I tell you when I first started knitting? Maybe in the late 70’s or early 80’s. I worked with a girl whose mom had a knitting shop in Lake Charles and Diane would sit at lunch and knit so I thought . . I’d like to do that too! She taught me how to knit but I only knitted sweaters. Well, I only knitted parts of sweaters. I never learned how to do sleeves or how to put them together. I would knit the fronts and back and a lady would knit the sleeves and put them together for me. I always wanted to learn to knit socks but I never took the time to learn. Since I’m not getting any younger, I decided it was time to learn to knit socks. I talked about it here a while back and Susan insisted on sending me a little package which contained the above yarn, the teeniest needles I’ve ever seen and a pattern for socks. I looked at the pattern, I watched a couple of online tutorials that Susan sent me links for and it baffled my old brain. There’s a knitting shop across the river in Indiana and I kept meaning to go there and ask for help but just hadn’t done it yet.

Monday night at my quilt group meeting, I asked if anyone had been to the knitting shop. Apparently she has wonderful yarn but may not be the friendliest, most personable person I’d want to meet. Our quilt group meets at the local Methodist church and one of the ladies said “oh, we have a great knitting group that meets on Thursday morning at 10.” Now . . I’m really excited and can’t wait til Thursday but . . I have a dentist appointment on Thursday morning and if I cancel it or even re-schedule it, Vince is not going to be happy because I’ve missed my last two dental appointments. Lucky me — the dentist’s office called Tuesday and wanted to change my appointment so I did that yesterday.

Went to the knitting meeting this morning and a really nice elderly lady got me started on my socks and see how much I have done already! This is so much fun!! The directions say to knit til the entire leg measures 6″. Does that mean from the very tip top of the ribbing or does it mean just the knitted part below the ribbing? The heel part looks really intimidating so I may wait til I go back to the meeting next Thursday or .. I might get brave and try it. I’d hate to screw up everything I’ve done so far though.


I was struggling with the teeny yarn and tiny needles so when I left the meeting, I went to Hobby Lobby to get some larger yarn til I got re-acquainted with knitting. In fact, I even ripped out all I had done on the sock at the group meeting and started over. I bought this lime green to make a dish cloth for the nice lady who was helping me. I’ll bet she’s never had a lime green dish cloth! 🙂


And, I bought this yarn to make myself a scarf. I’m going to finish the dish cloth tonight so I can start the scarf tomorrow. No pattern for that. I know I should be able to just do it but I’ll look on the internet for a pattern tomorrow.

Judy L.

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