Personal Knitting History

Today's babble will be about Spunknit's personal knitting history! Intriguing for some, boring for others. Sounds like school! I've always been a crafty person. I've done cross stitch, needlepoint,embroidery,painting,drawing,clay sculpting,beading,macrame, etc! 

I learned how to crochet when I was about 8 or 9. My mother bought a "teach yourself how to knit & crochet" book, some yarn & some hooks. She never did get the grasp of it, but I picked it up & learned. She didn't get the right sized hooks, they were too small. I did it anyway, not realizing till years later they were the wrong size. I did keep at it, but also did other crafts, too. In Campfire Girls, the troop leader started to teach us to knit, but the group folded shortly afterwards. I knew the knit st, & would knit on pixie sticks! (Showing my age on that one!) I forgot what I knew as the years went by.

At 19, I started crochet again with fervor. My girlfriend & I would get together with the mom of another friend & we would all crochet together. It was loads of fun! My girlfriend joined a class with her mom, & there were mostly knitters in the group. She was determined to learn to knit & did. When she told me she had learned, I thought "If Sue can learn to knit, so can I"! 

Out came the learn to knit books. I don't recall the first needles, I must have purchased some. I couldn't get the hang of knitting with the yarn in my right hand, so I taught myself to do the stitches with the yarn in my left, which I now know is Continental-style. I thought I was clever to do the knitting "my way"! 

Anyway, it was all downhill from there. I kept at it & got better & made more things & enjoyed it more & bought more yarn & books & needles & more yarn & gadgets & more stuff & more yarn & ...! I rarely do other crafts now.  I'm am thoroughly addicted & hopeless!