I'm not sure how I became so lucky, but the internet has done nothing but fill my life with joy and friends.
Even more, the influences from the internet have spread into everyday real world and make me happy.
Most of the Writer Girls Create Chaos knit. After hearing Rachael and Laura discuss yarn so many times, I decided to start. My boss brought me knitting needles, two skeins of Lions Brand Homespun in Pesto, and a crochet hook last night and began to teach me the basics.
According to her, I'm the quickest knitting learner that she's ever seen. I knit ten inches last night, only dropping three stitches, and that was my first try. She bound it off for me to keep and had me start over for David's scarf. So far, it is about fifteen inches and I've yet to drop a stitch. I feel like a knitting bad ass, despite the fact that it is a simple garter stitch.
I'm not really surprised that I'm good at knitting, truthfully. I need something to do with my hands at all times. It's why I type really fast. It's why, as a child, I had a worry stone that I actually worried through. My teacher's demanded that I get one because my hands could never be still.
Also, I've always been into crafts. During elementary school, I used to make lanyard bracelets, key chains, necklaces, and headbands. I sincerely had boxes upon boxes of the plastic string, all in different colors that entertained me. My mom would buy me books on new ways to create designs and I just loved every single one.
I'm not sure why I ever got out of the lanyards. They were fun.
But I like knitting more.
Lanyards were like the drug of elementary school camp. People traded them, and bartered them, and did weird favors for that plastic string stuff. Oh man. Good memories.
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