Last year when I impulsively bought a pair of knitting needles and a ball of yarn, I wasn’t sure if I would like knitting. While I was curious about knitting, I had never done it before so I didn’t know if it was a hobby that would last. I didn’t want to invest a lot of money on supplies that I wasn’t sure I would ever use, so I wanted to start out slow. Thus, every time I needed a different pair of needles to match the thickness of the yarn I had, I would buy my needles individually (which is fine in the short term, but not so great in the long term).
I finally decided that I just needed to get a set of
knitting needles because it would be cheaper overall and would give me more
sizes to work with. Working with just a couple of needle sizes is very
limiting; I like to look over knitting books and find cute projects that I want
to try, but as I didn’t have many of the needles sizes it sort of put a damper
on things. Now that I have a knitting needle set, I feel more motivated to try different
projects and use different types of yarn.
The individual needles I had been using were aluminum but my
new set of knitting needles are wood, and I have to say I think I prefer the
wood. It’s really not surprising since I love wood items in general, so
naturally I would like the look and feel of my new wooden needles; they feel
light and have a warmth and softness about them that I appreciate. My new set
has needles from sizes 0-15; I’m not sure that I’ll use all of the sizes, but
it’s nice to have them just in case I need them.
Lately I’ve been in knit mode, mostly doing so in the evenings when I can half-watch semi-interesting television shows, and I’ve broken in one pair of new wooden needles working on my first non-scarf project. It’s time consuming for me to knit anything, but one of the things I appreciate about knitting is that you can knit for an extended period of time or just for a few minutes—every row counts. And it’s pretty satisfying to see the knitted piece you’re working on get longer and longer as you get closer to finishing.
Lately I’ve been in knit mode, mostly doing so in the evenings when I can half-watch semi-interesting television shows, and I’ve broken in one pair of new wooden needles working on my first non-scarf project. It’s time consuming for me to knit anything, but one of the things I appreciate about knitting is that you can knit for an extended period of time or just for a few minutes—every row counts. And it’s pretty satisfying to see the knitted piece you’re working on get longer and longer as you get closer to finishing.
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