New knitter, new blogger

Hi. I'm Marci, the VP of Marketing here. I started in September and did not know how to knit. Over Christmas, my mom taught me on some fairly awful brown acrylic yarn and some straight acrylic needles. She found these supplies in the bottom of her closet--she hadn't touched any of it for about 20 years. I knitted a couple of brown squares, didn't really like it and quit. It was a lovely and fun mother/daughter moment, I just didn't know if knitting was for me.

Then, about a month ago, a friend bought me a huge pile of Knit Picks yarn as a gift. It was so thoughtful. So I decided to give it another try. Some of the yarn he bought me was Shamrock, which has been my favorite since I started here. I love the colors, the feel, and creative use of a single hand-dyed strand--just very cool. So, I'm now knitting a scarf for Chris, since he bought me the yarn, and I'm really, really enjoying it.

I went to Kelley Petkun to have her show me how to knit a scarf and I told her I wanted to learn to purl during the project. So she showed me how to knit a seed-stitch, explaining that a stockinette doesn't really work for a scarf because it curls.

So here's my scarf so far. I'm on my 4th ball of Shamrock, I think I'll end up using 5 balls total. Oh, and I'm using size 5 nickel Options needles

And bear with me if I don't use the right terminology in my posts--I'm an official newbie knitter.

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Comment by Teish on April 24, 2008 at 12:19pm: A scarf for my brother in law was one of my first projects. Of course, it was all knit in garter stitch, so it took a LOT of willpower to finish since I was bored to death after a few inches! LOL! The next scarf that I knit was a pretty simple basket weave pattern, but it was SO much more fun to knit because it was actually interesting! I'm glad that you are starting out with a scarf that has more than just the knit stitch, for your own sanity! Enjoy the knitting!

Comment by medhbh on April 24, 2008 at 5:13am: Welcome to the addiction!

Comment by Roxane on April 24, 2008 at 5:09am: Looking good! It has to be more fun marketing this stuff than--oh, I don't know--spare automobile parts or something!