I'm Not As Stupid & Incompetent as I Thought!

Hooray!  My fellow knitters on the Ravely knitting site have instructed me that yes, my shawl does have to be blocked which will make it wearable for someone other than a Munchkin or a mouse (Hi mouse!) so I have ordered myself a blocking board & will give that a try.

I learned to knit in the late 90s.  I found out that there was a knitting group in the next town that got together at someone's home once a month.  I was thinking it was once a week but no, it was once a month. Anyway, I called the lady who hostessed this group & she met with me one day to show me how to knit.  She started me out on a dishcloth.  I can remember sitting & working on that dishcloth, tears rolling down my face, sobbing all the while, until I got it right.  Of course I didn't want to learn to knit so I could make dishcloths!  I wanted to make sweaters & socks!  I then got some yarn & a pattern & taught myself to make socks.  I had one sock done & was working on the second when I attended my first meeting with the group & saw the hostess who was speechless when she saw me working on my second sock.  Apparently knitting socks is supposed to be difficult.  Well, no one told me so I just jumped right into it!  I made myself at least a dozen pair of hand knit socks which I would wear & save to hand wash all at one time.  One day I was sorting the laundry & apparently not paying attention to what I was doing because the socks ended up in the washing machine along with one of the piles of laundry, then in the dryer, & I ended up with a whole bunch of baby booties.  This kind of bummed me out & I put down my needles & never knitted again until the interest was rekindled last summer at which time I started working on a shawl, had some problems with it & walked away.

Since my cross stitch PTSD continues to prevent me from stitching, last night I decided to start knitting a pair of socks.  I've chosen to start off with a really simple, basic pair of socks to get myself back in the sock knitting saddle again, & so far, so good.

I'm sure I'll be stitching again ... I've actually purchased 3 new charts in the past couple days ... but I apparently need this break, which is fine.  I plan to be around for another 59 years so I should have plenty of time to get everything done   : )