Beginner's Luck?

Okay, so this is how it is! Church has a "Comfy Cozies" knitting group that meets once a month. They make chemo caps, hats and scarves for people who are homeless, and baby layettes. Sounds good! Learn to knit and give to charity! What a nice gift of time... except my knitting is "wobbly." Yes, that's a good word to describe it. One row has 20 and the next 34! Now how does that happen? (Everyone says, "Bad yarn!" That's it! Blame something or someone else.) NO, the fault is mine... bad knitting!


So, with a little more persistence and a trip to buy "good yarn," I discovered the oh-so-easy-what-was-I-thinking method of knitting! LOOMS, aka knitting without needles! That reminds me that I have a knitting machine in the basement... guess who is going to dust off those needles and pound out some afghans to match the baby hats?







Would you say that is cheating for charity?




These are the itsy bitsy baby hats that I hope go to the newborns and preemies in the hospital!





Books Are Fun has a kit that has the loom, yarn, and a really nice book of patterns and directions in their line-up this spring. I used that set to make this scarf. Easy, except for getting the yarn out of knots! Took longer to do that than "knit" the scarf! The loom needs to be put together, though, and some pegs are a bit difficult to get in where the two halves of the looms go together. But gentle taps with a hammer evened the pegs up nicely! (I wore this scarf for the whole 25 hours our power was out last week! Guess I am keeping this one!)

But, don't start doing this! It's totally addictive... really, don't do it! Check out this funky scarf I made...

. . . I have to go knit!