25 November 2012 - Rainbow Ripple Knit Progress

 

The first time my Mum taught me to knit

(when I was about seven maybe?)

it was with a ball of varigated yarn, the Theory being

that it's good for the New Knitter to see progress

as the colours change row-by-row.

 

I dropped stitches, made stitches, found it all a bit tedious

and unsatisfying and used the yarn for other things instead -

little yarn people and wrapping the stair banisters in yarn

to create a giant spiders' web in which my siblings and I

put big paper spiders.

We thought we'd get in trouble for the spider's web

(funny how you do it anyway??)

but at that time my parents were in Teachers' College

and my Dad was learning to teach Art

and was thrilled and took photos of it.

This is back in the Olden Days

when camera film cost a fortune

and taking a photo was a big deal.

 

So the ball of varigated yarn was good value.

 

I got the hang of knitting the third time my Mum taught me,

when I was seventeen.