A Bitter Knitter

My last blog post was two months ago... I have started and frogged multiple projects and am still working on some stealth projects, but I finally have things to show you!  (With all pictures, click to embiggen.) 1- Musical Mitts for Read Headed Sister This is one of the stealth projects I'd posted about previously, but since her birthday is now passed I can show them to you! They are knit in alpaca and are wonderfully soft.  She tells me that she loves them and that everyone who sees them is jealous. 2- Captain Hats 1 & 2 Some of the ladies at Knitter's Anonymous had knit this hat and I just loved it, so I knit one for a friend (tan) and one for me (grey) . It's a very fun, fast pattern (hooray for bulky yarn!)  3- Raspberry Chocolate Mitts for the Cure These were knit at the Yarning for You " Knit for the Cure " event and donated to Susan G. Koman for the Cure .  The colours remind me of raspberries and chocolate, hence the name of the mitts...

I first tried knitting in 2002 or 2003.  I'm not sure which--I was sixteen or seventeen at the time.  I learned how to do a long-tail cast on and how to knit and purl.  As a result, I knitted a piece about eighteen inches wide and four inches tall in 2x2 rib.  And then the royal blue yarn and the aluminum size 9 needles sat abandoned in my closet.  And then I moved, and they sat abandoned in my new closet. Eleven months ago today, 22 September, I walked into the yarn store near my university and bought yarn and knitting needles.  I had seen a pattern online for a Hogwarts scarf and wanted to make one for my little sister for Christmas, so I purchased yellow and black yarn (Hufflepuff colours) and a size 7 circular needle and, with the help of YouTube and half a dozen knitting sites, I cast on again, some seven or eight years after I first attempted knitting, and began knitting again. Just knitting.  Solid knitting.  Solid stockinette...