Tonight was knitting class again – we had a full house with a bunch of people who are normally in the Wednesday class “crashing” our lesson. I’m not sure to what we owed the invasion, but I really liked having a room full of new faces to chat with and the general buzz of people who are all working on the same thing. More and more, I am convinced that the $60 cost of the class was well worth the expenditure. (I’m not sure if Coffee agrees, so I’ll leave it up to him to comment down below!)
We also had our ‘official’ knitting teacher (who we had not yet met, as she was in Germany for a few weeks). I’m unsure how I feel about her, but I didn’t require any help from her (or anyone! Go me!) so I can’t really speak to her teaching style or how helpful she is. She did pop up a few times to give us some pointers and tips, which was nice of her to do. I was not impressed with how she handled the two new kids in the class (and I mean “kids” literally – two sisters age 7 and 12) but then I lean toward being overly sensitive to how people speak to children. She just seemed.. annoyed that the youngest one wasn’t able to easily manipulate the long needles and make perfect stitches. (I’m 30, I have much bigger hands, and sometimes *I* can’t do it either! Heh.)
Melle, you are not allowed to read any further in this post!
I made some good headway in the scarf that I’m knitting for Melle, though I’m starting to think she’ll be lucky to get it for her BIRTHDAY (which isn’t until the summer) instead of the Christmas deadline I was aiming for. I had originally purchased some reddish-burgundy-ish wool that just would NOT knit up nicely for me – and after knitting and undoing the first 10 rows a few times, I was ready to toss the whole thing out the window and never knit again.
The scarf is now being knit in a plain black yarn – which is nowhere near as pretty, IMHO, but at least it’ll go with anything she wants to wear it with. Heh. I’m using the “wavy” pattern from Knitty which I thought (being as it’s “tangy”) might be a little out of my league, but it’s going quite smoothly now.
After knitting for a few hours in class, I’m on row 35 of the initial 44 (and then I have to repeat, um, 9 more times. Heh.) I’ve got a long way to go, but I’m hopeful nonetheless that I’ll finish it before the winter is over… :)
Knitting is FUN!
Edited to add: As of midnight, I am now finished all 44 rows, which means I now get to start over again on the next chunk of 44. I cannot adequately describe how much much my hands ache. Eeeeeeeeek.
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You go to knitting school? How cool is that. I’d consider it, but those needles can do a lot of damage to someone who gets in my way. Especially if I drop a stitch or something like that. Go Dana Go. !!!!!
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I do go to knitting school! It’s Monday nights (from 6:30 – 8:30) at a yarn store in Hamilton. It’s usually just five or six of us (with one or two instructors) but tonight we had at least 15 people crammed into the store. :) It’s a really good motivator – if I screw up, they help me fix it. If I don’t know how to do something, they’ll teach me. And I get to chat with all the other people in the class, of course, which is a nice way to be social. Heh. The bonus is that the store is full of all the supplies I could ever need, so I can pick out new yarns and special needles and whatever. :)
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Well, the knitting class is relatively cheap for lessons at $3 an hour, but at the same time, we generally don’t need much help. Still, I don’t think that we’d have been as motivated to start without the class and knowing that we could ask anyone for help. As for future classes, it might be better to see if we can organize a local stitch and bitch somewhere.
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I like the new instructor better but then I need the authority by which she teaches. Plus the fact that she did *not* rip the work out of my hands, translated into big kudos from me.
Also, she didn’t made me feel like I was doing something bad by wanted to redo it and make it ‘perfect’ Our first instructor wasn’t so kind.
I will admit that the fact that I PAID for this class is a great motivator for me to continue going and that also translates to me wanting to make time to knit outside of class too.
Oh and yeah I was sensitive to her impatience with the little girl too. I was worried when I first came in that she was going to be a knitting Nazi based on the way she spoke to her.
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