knitting

[Cliche Guevara]

How hard is it to knit yourself a sweater and/or hat. Can I learn to do it easily?

[Spatula Tzar]

Knitting is easy to learn, and you can follow a pattern for clothes. It's extremely tedious, but I suppose it's part of the appeal. Not really a project on its own, but rather something to pass the time.

[Mantikore]

i havent knitted in ages, but i cant be bothered giving away all my knitting stuff.

Its easy to learn actually. 95% of the time, youre just doing the same 4 step process over and over.

youtube is a pretty good source of info. joining stuff may be a bit tricky, but still not too difficult.

take a look at what kind of patterns you like before diving into it

[Cliche Guevara]

Okay I'm learning the basics, but I'm a little confused, how do I make a hat? All i see is videos on how to make strips of wool cloth. Im trying to learn the garter stitch, is that the easiest one?

[RDProgrammer]

While I can't help you specifically on the stitches, what kind of hat are you trying for? a beanie? If you have a pattern you're following, post it here for the help.

RDP

[el drewto]

Making your gay lover a scarf, nancy boy?

But seriously, It's on youtube. Just look it up.

[Mantikore]

Originally Posted by Cliche Guevara

Okay I'm learning the basics, but I'm a little confused, how do I make a hat? All i see is videos on how to make strips of wool cloth. Im trying to learn the garter stitch, is that the easiest one?

get yourself some circular knitting needles. you dont want to do it with a whole bunch of regular straight ones

[Cliche Guevara]

Originally Posted by el drewto

Making your gay lover a scarf, nancy boy?

But seriously, It's on youtube. Just look it up.

No I just think itll make a great conversation piece plus the satisfaction of being like "yo see this hat this here hat on mah head, I made it"

Eventually I want to make a guitar case.

Anyways Im confused on how this circular thing works, How do I switch from one to the other when I'm knitting my stitches? or do i need to get two circular ones?

[PirateJoe]

What's better, knitting or crocheting?

[psycho_8b]

When I was a kid, my granny tried to teach me knitting.

God damn it was a tedious exercise. Much preferred Lego or Mechano.

But yeah, Jewtube seems like the best place to start.

[Cliche Guevara]

I got the hang of casting and garter stitching, but one thing that really pisses me off is that I have no idea what to do if I make a mistake but start over.

[Mantikore]

you can just pull your yarn such that it undoes the stitching backwards. stop pulling when it reaches the error then redo that bit.