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nekowafer:
I don't know if this fits here, but I'm rather proud of it, so...
I purchased the dark wood organizer on Etsy, and it's awesome. Then I hung that and all the rest - ribbons and hooks - behind my bedroom door. On the back of the door is a mirror, so it's easy for me to see how stuff looks on me.
Papersatan:
You have an adorable assortment of bows!
nekowafer:
Thank you :D I will hopefully be setting up my little sewing corner soon, so I will be able to show that off and maybe make some cool stuff too :)
CrowFairy:
I randomly decided recently that I'm kinda interested in knitting. I always liked weaving projects in school, I picked up a cross-stitch pattern recently, and I'm pretty good at basic sewing (like stitching a straight line, hemming, and sewing on buttons), so I guess knitting is the next logical step. :P
So I have some questions, if anyone cares to answer them:
1. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being "super-hard; you will hate it and wish whoever invented it would have a nice long trip to visit Satan" and 1 being "You could learn this in your sleep"), how hard would you say it is to begin learning how to knit?
2. Where is the best place to learn how to knit? Online? IRL? YouTube specifically? I have no clue!
3. How expensive is knitting? How much do you ordinarily spend on materials (including knitting needles and patterns)?
4. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being rainbow-barfingly fun and 1 being total dulls-ville and/or really annoying and frustrating), how much fun would you say knitting is?
5. A fill-in-the-blank one: You might know if you're good at knitting (and/or will like it) if you like and/or are good at ______________.
6. How much research and learning does it take to really get into knitting?
7. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being that I will never stop knitting, not even when sleeping, and 1 being that I will do it once, get bored and/or frustrated and never return to it), how addictive would you say knitting is?
Thanks. <3
Papersatan:
I am not a knitter. I have always been better at crochet, but even that I don't stick with, but I can still give you some starting points.
1. How hard it is an what the best way to learn is depends a lot on your skills. Your fine motor control, your spacial intelligence ad your patience. There are tons of videos and blogs and images and books explaining the basics, but some people have trouble mimicking what the see without someone in person to guide them. If you find that is the case your local JoAnns or Michaels probably have classes, and if there is a yarn store near by they are sure to as well.
3. It can be pretty inexpensive, or very expensive depending what you want to make and out of what sort of yarn. Your local craft store should have inexpensive needles and acrylic yarn. Acrylic yarn goes for around $4 a skein and you should be able to get a few sets of needles for ~$10. There are also patterns online for basic thing for free, and your library probably has a selection of books with more complex patterns when you get to that point.
4. This will also depend on you. You won't know until you try. I find it takes too much of my concentration to be mindlessly comforting, but not enough to be fun. Others disagree. My mother likes to knit while she watched TV and I know several people who do it while they socialize and even some who do it in lectures.
5. I think having some spacial talents and fine motor skills will help. When you did weaving could you "see" where the pattern was going? That sort of insite can be useful to understand how a pattern will fit together or to notice when a stitch is wrong before it becomes a problem.
6. You only need to know two stitches. Once you have them there are a ton of things you can make in a ton of patterns. If you find you like it you can have a lot of flexibility pretty quickly.
7. This depends on the person too. I didn't like it. But I know people who knit all the time.
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