Time to knit

Ok, along with learning anything and everything I can about alpacas, I have also been trying to learn anything and everything I can about their fiber and fiber products which includes knitting.

I have never knitted and never showed and interest in knitting. I attempted to crochet once a long time ago and it was a fiasco! I cross-stiched. Counting squares is much easier...so I thought.

Finally last weekend at the Kidney Foundation Scrap Day, I finally got to meet Holly. Holly is a friend of my friend Dee and Holly is a knit-a-holic! I got a quick tutorial because we just plain ran out of time.

I took my needles and yarn home and found that I had a big mess. So I cursed....and cursed...and guess, what I cursed some more! I cut off my original start and decided to start from scratch. Well it took me two days and countless youtube videos along with a website called knittinghelp.com that my friend Stephani suggested I visit. I had finally figured out how to cast on. HOORAY!

Now I needed to "pearl"?

Well, Holly is not quite convenient and talking via facebook doesnt cut it so I stopped over to Stephani's house and she showed me yet another way to cast on. Gee whiz! More than one way? Yikes!

She showed me what the internet couldn't do and I was off to get my hair cut and colored. I took my needles and yarn and low and behold I knitted the whole time my color set. DOUBLE HOORAY!

So it isn't alpaca fiber but learning on basic yarn will get all my bugs out so one day I can knit a beautiufl scarf out of alpaca.