My Friends are Super Talented

So it seems as though knitting and crocheting are all the rage right now.  And I have friends who are incredibly talented at these crafts.  

My headband from Becky and scarf from Melissa

And Nicki made me this scarf for Christmas!

So when I visited with Nicki in San Antonio we talked about how I wanted to learn to crochet.  And the perfect opportunity presented itself when Erin posted about starting up crocheting again.  So I bought crochet hooks and yarn and enlisted her help to teach me.

Little did she know what a difficult student I am.

I just did. not. get it.

So I learned the basic part and then we decided we'd see if Mama Mazur could help with some remedial lessons when she is in town next.

In the meantime, Melissa mentioned to me that she thinks knitting is easier than crocheting, so I thought maybe I should see if it was easier for me.  Last night we had a Star Wars movie night with the 20s group, and since I don't really pay attention to those movies anyway, I figured it would be a good time to learn.

After it taking a while to understand--Melissa said "you make this look so complicated" (See Erin, it's not you... it's me.)--I finally got the hang of it.  I knitted all through the final movie and managed to not make it through an entire row without losing a stitch somewhere along the way.  Sigh.  In fact, some of the guys asked what I was making and my response was "nothing, I'm just trying to practice not messing it up."   So after 2 hours of knitting, I ended up with about 6 rows with stitches missing and knots where there shouldn't be knots.

But I trudged on... this morning I sat down to practice again and I made it through several rows without messing anything up.

I think Knitting will be easier for me than crocheting (partially because I didn't give up as quickly haha) and now I am on to my first project.

Hoping that someday I will be as talented as all my friends ;)