I Go To Knitting Group When I Can

United States
August 20, 2015 3:16pm CST
This past winter, I started going to a couple of knitting groups at the yarn store. It all started when I signed up for a sock knitting class. My sister gave me a gift card from the yarn store so I used that to go toward the class fee. When I found out that knitters and crocheters gathered there a couple of times a week, I started going to them. One meets on Tuesday afternoon and the other meets Thursday evenings. Since I started my job at the beginning of June, I've been able to go only to the evening groups. I think I went to the Tuesday gathering once...maybe twice. I like going to the gatherings because I'm around people, people show the project they just finished, we help each other pick out yarns and patterns, and other stuff. I will be going to these knitting group gatherings until I move back to where I went to college. I plan to get another degree. Thing is, the only knitting group there is there is at a church. I don't know if they still have knitting group or not. It's been a couple of years since I've been to that group. The yarn store for that town is out in the country. I guess I would have to start my own knitting group down there. I need to start getting ready to go to knitting group tonight. I have a couple of projects I will work on, a shawl that I recently finished to show everyone, and a few pattern books.
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
20 Aug 15
It's a time-honored tradition, the crafts group. I think that people love to get together and talk about their chosen crafts. I hope you can find another knitters' group you like as well.
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@rosekiss (30413)
• Eugene, Oregon
20 Aug 15
I knit too, but I never went to any classes,as after I graduated from high school, I bought self teaching books so I could learn how to knit on my own. I also crochet too, and taught myself that too. Right now, I am trying to knit socks on double pointed needles, which I have never used before, but so far so good, and when I run into problems, I just go to youtube and watch tutorials on knitting socks.
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
21 Aug 15
@rosekiss YouTube is great and I have my favorite instructors. But I learned to knit from The Book of Knowledge, an encyclopedia for kids and my mother and I both learned crochet together. Today it is so easy with all the vids available.
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@rosekiss (30413)
• Eugene, Oregon
21 Aug 15
@Rollo1 It sure is, especially when I am not allthat sure how to make something. I have learned a lot from watching youtube videos.
@GardenGerty (169486)
• United States
21 Aug 15
I think our local library has what they call a "hand work" night. It sounds like a great way to be social and productive and creative.
• United States
21 Aug 15
I don't think the library here has a group for knitters and crocheters. Last I knew, there was a group who bring in their sewing machines and quilt blocks.
@jstory07 (148735)
• Roseburg, Oregon
20 Aug 15
You can make a lot of nice things when you knit.
• United States
21 Aug 15
I have knitted and crocheted lots of things: sweaters, afghans, wash cloths, hooded scarves, hats, shawls, shoulder wraps, fingerless gloves, bath mitts. I have 4 or 5 projects going now. Going to try to pretty much finish them one by one. Whee!