KnitBlog, post 1

I am learning to knit. Nana taught me the basic stuff over Christmas, and my ambitions are currently bigger than both my skill and my wallet.
This blog is my own personal way of tracking my progress etc. without plastering it all over my other blog/facebook, which I would otherwise be tempted to do.

So far I've done a hat that only mostly worked out (my head, I think, is smaller than most adult head sizes) and a scarf that I didn't have enough wool to finish, so it is a neck gaiter instead. I'm fairly happy with them and am ready to plunge into more complicated stuff than just knitting nice rectangles.

I had planned to make a baby blankie for my friend Allison, who just had a new baby. Blankies, as it turns out, are expensive if you want to use nice wool. Also, would probably take a fair bit of time.

So instead I'll be making a toque. Also going to make one for Tre, who also just had a baby. These should go faster and far less expensively than a blankie would.

For Allison: this one, with pink-strawberry wool.

For Tre: this one, in a dark green, since she says her baby's grandma already has half a million pastel-coloured things covered.

Going to borrow some circular and double-pointed needles from Nana to get used to using those.

So yes, this is my debut in the wonderful world of knitting. Excuse this blog's title, I couldn't think of a clever knitting/yarn pun under pressure like this. It's probably a trope in itself, even though it's not a pun.