I can knit!

[JackBauerIsGoneForever]

I bought a knitting magazine this week with free 15mm needles as I wanted to try broomstick crochet, and have made a scarf out of some variegated stuff I've been wondering what to do with!
Soooooooooooo much faster than crochet!

Knitting is great, you'll be doing gloves and socks for Christmas presents next.

Congratulations!

Me too.

Gloves and socks? knitting in the round? I don't think so!

I have never got the hang of knitting though, always crocheted. I made a cardigan for DD1 before she was born, it took 6 months and was never worn! I just did a garter stitch scarf, nothing major, but was so fast, and completed looks cool.

Might do a knit and crochet mixed patchwork blanket

Faster than crochet? Are you insane woman?! On 15mm needles and draught excluder big wool maybe...

Oh, congratulations btw

normal dk, ackcherly
But yeah, 15mm needles did help

Congratulations Did you get the hang of it quickly?
I am sad and a tad jealous tbh my current purl knitting square looks like it got attacked by a cat.
Is it just a case of practice makes perfect?
My grandma and mother are excellent knitters I feel I'm letting the side down.

I started to knit to keep my mind off my looming birth. However now I'm desperate to give birth to take my mind of my knitting failure.

Get your yarn hold right and everything else comes easily - tension etc. Experiment, then do something repetitive that you don't have to look at, and are prepared to throw away if necessary. Before you know it your stitches will be even and you will be smug.

And then you'll have to learn the next bit, which is how to keep count. I'm still working on that one...

Lola, all my family can knit, but I can crochet better than they can!
Try crochet, especially if they don't do it, and it will help with your knitting re yarn holds, getting usedto needles/Hooks etc.
I have knitted before and it lookedshite, but over a yesr of crochet later + it's clicked!

Ah crochet... I will investigate and report back.

Can someone tell me how undo a couple of lines of knitting?

Do you mean without losing all the stitches?
I have unknitted stuff before, knit a few more stitches and watch carefully where the old stitch goes when you takle it off the needle, you should be able to unknit rows then, but it takes ages!

without losing all the sitches just need to undo a couple of poor excuses for rows. I will try now

without losing all the sitches just need to undo a couple of poor excuses for rows. I will try now

Great stuff Jack! I still prefer crochet, am such a slow knitter. I only made one cardi for DD2 and it took aaaaaages.

In future if you suspect you will make mistakes and need to undo rows, you can put in a "lifeline". When you have completed a section of knitting (I do this after a complicated lace pattern repeat) that you know is correct and dread having to repeat, you can put in a lifeline, which means threading a contrasting piece of wool through all the stitches on your needle. You then ignore the contrasting wool and carry on knitting as normal. If you have to undo, you can rip the yarn back to that row, and the lifeline will prevent any further unraveling, and as the yarn goes through each stitch it will be easy to pick them up again. If you don't need to use the lifeline, you just pull it out from the side.

Oooh BU, that's genius!

I am going to steal that idea BU... My knitting will be very stripey

I always plan to put lifelines in, but then get too lazy. But I often wish I'd bothered though!