So, for reasons best known to my brain, I have spent the better part of the last week knitting. I really think it started by going into that yarn store on Cedar Lane (see the entry Brick and Mortar for that story.) I mean, there are so many beautiful yarns to play with, who wouldn't want to knit?
Okay, so I haven’t knit anything in 13 years. My great-grandmother was a professional knitter, and she taught me the basics when I was in middle school, but I never did anything with it. Then, I picked up a pattern when I was a teenager and made a sweater. And that was it.
So, I decided to see if I still knew what I was doing. I picked up some spare yarn and a pair of needles from my mother-in-law over Christmas and cast on. My hands seemed to remember how to knit and purl just fine, so I started just knitting different patterns. (Stockinette is the most basic of the knitting patterns people learn, generating the flat knit most people associate with sweaters and such. I have no idea why the definition specifies undergarments, bandages and baby clothes, but so it goes.) I got bored with that pretty quickly. I decided that, until I got an actual project up and running, I would just make a scarf in garter stitch with the yarn I had lying around. But then I saw a project for a laptop holder on the Classic Elite Yarns website. Since I need another scarf like I need a hole in the head, I decided to see if I could improvise a laptop cover out of what I had already started.
The Classic Elite pattern can be found here, but it really was just a jumping off point. I am working in garter, not stockinette. There will be no pear. And I am unsure whether or not I will be felting this. It really is just something to mess around with until my yarn comes in the mail. Ooh, new yarn to play with... tee hee!
Happy New Year!
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