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Today's theme of the Knitting Crochet Blog Week is not a very easy one for me: a new skill I would like to learn.
I mean, sure, there are loads of skills I'd like to learn, but not one or two that I would have been thinking about a while or anything that I'd be actively working on right now (well, apart from designing, but I won't get into that this time).
As much as I would love to improve my intarsia skills, I don't have an intarsia project going on at the moment. I always say some day I will learn to crochet, but apparently the wish is not strong enough for me to actually pick up the hook!
Today's topic in Knitting Crochet Blog Week should be "One Great Knitter". But I can impossibly just name one Great Knitter, or a knitter who's work I really enjoy. But I'll try, and just name two.
Today's theme of the Knitting & Crochet Blog Week is an inspirational pattern or what I still want to aspire to do as a knitter.
I'm not an advanced knitter. Intermediate, maybe. But somehow I have understood how to read a pattern, and would not be afraid to try something advanced if I had a good pattern to follow. There are beautiful, advanced knits out there I won't most likely ever knit - but not because I would believe I'm not up to it, but because they're just too time-consuming and fiddly (thinking of very fine lace with beads here).
Today is the first day of Knitting Crochet Blog Week, and this is my first post in that series. The theme today is how I started knitting in the first place.
Like most kids in Finland, I first learned in school. Or I can't really say learned, I tried and Mum finished the items! I really didn't like knitting at all, and forgot it for years.
The weather here has been good for the last weeks - the weekdays are cold, but come weekend, it's 20 degrees and sunny! As today was the same, clear skies and warm enough to wear a t-shirt, we (= me and DH) decided to take advantage and take the train to Oberhausen, a neighbor city, and visit the Gasometer, which was also one if my 101 in 1001 list items.
