Very nice...and absolutely amazing for a beginning knitter.
I don't know if I'll ever get into hand knitting... maybe this winter I'll try the YouTube thing. I *can* knit... I've got three or four sweaters (and an odd, but pretty and very warm, lace knit vest from some DazzleAire yarn... that shouldn't have worked, but sonehow did... for a first effort, anyway) that I've made over the years. But it just is so slow and awkward I usually get bored and quit before I finish.
I'm with you, though... I sure wish I'd had someone to teach me when I was young. My grandmother did beautiful work (I had a sweater she made until I lost it in our house fire... it was all intertwined cables, even the sleeves. I cant imagine even trying sonething that intricate!), and she taught me to crochet, but I didn't see her much (family issues) and I don't think she had much interest in trying to teach a kid to knit.
Crochet is fast for me... but I've never really liked how it looks. Too "clunky"... and garments don't stretch and fit like knit does.
I really have to get the knitting machine back out when it starts cooling off again.
Oh... this is cute. My granddaughter just turned two. She's been talking in sentences since she was 10 months, sight reading words from 9 months, and knows so much that we sometimes wonder about past lives!
She was visiting last month, and I was entertaining her by letting her look through my bins of fabrics... she is fascinated by the colors and textures. We found a bin of flannel kids prints... cute pastels with animals, etc. She pulled out several pieces, and I showed her how it felt soft on her skin. She giggled, handed me the stack, and said, "grandma make Daphne blanket"
My jaw dropped... she has never seen me (or anyone) sew... when they visit, I usually spend most of our time playing with her or reading with her. I did make a gorgeous quilt for her when she was born, so I thought her parents had probably told her "grandma made that" when they were teaching her the various colors. I asked... nope. Never occurred to them.
So how can this little one look at pieces of fabric and somehow know it could be sewn into a blanket?
She's also an absolute imp! One day (having heard how she was starting to show signs of the terrible twos) I asked her on the phone, "so... are you being a good girl for daddy?" She giggled, and said, "not really, grandma. I run off a lot!"
I'm going to start teaching her the basics of patchwork soon...gotta channel all that energy and amazing brain into productive, positive activity!
Summerthyme