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First knitting post from beginner knitter (i.imgur.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/knitting@lemmy.world
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Hi! I just learnt how to knit a couple months ago, when I started to attend a meetup group with my mom. I learned to crochet in school, but I always failed to learn knitting, maybe because I'm left handed?. But something clicked now that I'm an adult and I'm hooked. I'm mostly taking on smaller projects like hats and mittens, these are the first I made to give away to a friend for her little girl (3yo) but they ended up being too small lol.

Used free patterns found online, the mittens were done with crochet. I don't know what else to put in here 😅 So feel free to ask if I'm missing some important info here, please.

Edit: Thank you everyone for your kind words, I look forward to keep sharing my projects in such an encouraging and lovely community 💕

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

I understand the perspective, but as someone who learned both as a child at her nana’s elbow, getting started with knitting and making my first scarf worked, my first granny square was an exercise in frustration.

But as an adult with good book resources (and now videos one can repeat endlessly), I can see how much easier it is to shape and form interesting 3D garments and objects in crochet as well as make complex patterns and textures.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Seconding. Learned to knit poorly with my grandmother, and crochet was very hard to figure out. All the videos I watched did not work out because the tutorial maker’s hands kept blocking what I needed to see. Maybe I should look back into crochet again.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Once I figured it out, I found crochet to be great, but I spent a good while on Afghan crochet as a bridge.

    Finding a really good instruction book with LOTS of intermediate diagrams for each of the major stitched seemed essential. Then of course there were zillions of samples to be made before anything in a project was possible.

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