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Today, I bought some knitting needles and cotton yarn and have been knitting a washcloth. Because that's an easy project that's small and useful.

Things about knitting:

- The click-slide-scrape sound that knitting needles make is really quite pleasing

- Chaining = much easier than casting on

- Knitting is really unforgiving. If I realize that I screwed up a stitch a row back when I crochet, I say "Oh, frell", take my hook out of the fabric and pull the yarn away till I get back to the offending stitch. With knitting, I essentially have to knit backwards to fix things. So unless it's really egregiously wrong or only a few stitches back, the answer is to say "Frell that" and move on.

- Manuevering two implements instead of one is occasionally very awkward

- The fabric produced by knitting is very pleasant

- However, so, the thing with crochet is that if I get bored with doing one kind of stitch, I probably get to do another one some time soon. Not always, but most of the time. Are there really only two stitches in knitting? Seriously?



I can't wait till I'm good enough to make something more interesting that washcloths.