Nothing but Knit

When I first started knitting I set it aside a lot, because at first I felt like I was never going to master garter stitch - the simplest of all stitches. Now, however, I produce beautiful garter stitch and very rarely drop or mysteriously add new stitches, so I feel ready to move on to something new! At the same time, I'm still hesitant to begin a knitting project that will require me to follow a pattern; so far the projects I've worked on have either had an extremely simple pattern or really no pattern at all, so I'm not sure how well I'll adapt or how big my mistakes will be if I lose my place. Still, I can't wait to move on to something a little more complex - I've just got to get this Dr. Who scarf done first.

Since I'm still learning pretty much everything there is to learn about knitting, I like to try to learn a new technique with each project. Slow and steady is a good pace for me when it comes to knitting, both because it's good to steadily build upon each skill I've learned and because it keeps me from becoming too obsessive and burning out on it; I often get so intensely in to a new hobby that for weeks or even months I will learn and excel at it quickly, but then set it aside after I begin to get tired of it.

My next project will be yet another scarf (my fourth one), but it will teach me how to do increases and decreases, which is a technique I'll need to master to knit pretty much anything beyond scarves. I'm going to use this pattern and I ordered this yarn in "Strawberry-Limes" for it. After that scarf I imagine I'll be totally sick of knitting scarves, but I still plan to try this pattern to learn cables. Originally I was planning to try the Cinnabar Scarf, but The Irish Hiking Scarf seems simpler and is more truly cabled and there's just something nice and fresh-seeming in that name... Although that opinion may be due to exposure too many Irish Spring commercials at a young age. Once I've done all that, I think I'm going to attempt a sweater or hoodie!