Yesterday I finished my very first knitting project. It is a scarf (in case that is not obvious from the photos) and it is about 6-1/2" x 64".
I am so proud of my little creation. Our knitting class got together again yesterday afternoon and Hannah (the knitting instructor) was very complimentary about my technique. I was the only student who had any real progress to show. I was also able to teach Hannah something she did not know, about the edge stitch that I ended up using to keep my ends neat and the width uniform. And it turns out that she uses a different method to bind off than the one that Geri mentioned and the one I learned off knittinghelp.com - I like the one I used better.It was good because Hannah had us practice some basic stuff some more, showed us how to weave in the ends, yada yada yada. Last evening, I added the fringe and tada! When I showed A the finished scarf this morning, he told me that he was proud of me...how sweet.I have started on my next scarf, which uses a chenille-like yarn knit with two strands on size 19 needles. It is going to be really soft and fluffy, but those big needles feel really awkward right now - like knitting with baguettes!
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s you can see, the Tooth Fairy paid another visit to our house last week. A is doing very well eating and speaking without those two front teeth.The tooth came out at dinner one night - at least he didn't eat it! A had left his little plastic tooth box at school, so the tooth was placed in a snack size plastic zip bag and placed under his pillow. As with the first tooth, there was a little difficulty in making the money-for-tooth swap. J reached under the pillow and could not find the plastic bag...working around the sleeping A as much as possible, he tried vainly to find the bag. No luck. After a whispered conference, we decided to leave the money and hope that A didn't find the bag in the morning before school.The next morning, A was thrilled to find the money the Tooth Fairy had left. After he went to school, I searched his bed and finally found the bag wedged between the mattress and the edge of the bed. The EMPTY bag - no tooth to be found. I tried to look through the sheets, around the mattress and on the floor, but I could not find the tooth.In case A ever finds the tooth and questions its presence, I have my story ready: the Tooth Fairy was trying to juggle many teeth and a lot of money, and she must have accidentally dropped it on her way out.Think that story will hold water?
I am so proud of my little creation. Our knitting class got together again yesterday afternoon and Hannah (the knitting instructor) was very complimentary about my technique. I was the only student who had any real progress to show. I was also able to teach Hannah something she did not know, about the edge stitch that I ended up using to keep my ends neat and the width uniform. And it turns out that she uses a different method to bind off than the one that Geri mentioned and the one I learned off knittinghelp.com - I like the one I used better.
