This is not an elaborate, belated April Fool's joke. He can cast on, and he's got the knit stitch down pat. Next up: purling, although he wants to work out his garter-stitch gauge issues first.
Here's his first swatch. I call it a bookmark; he calls it ... well, never mind. Not a bookmark. I think it looks great, and apparently El Fuego has a bit of the knitter in his soul; in what must be a world-record-setting moment, within 20 minutes of learning the knit stitch, he said to Miss Dashwood, "Hang on, let me finish this row."
He's working on his second practice swatch. It contains a small section he calls The Yarn Tumor, and we're not really sure what happened in that spot, but these things, they happen. I'm chuffed to bits that he wanted to learn, and glad I was able to overcome my deficiencies in the explaining-things department ("No, your other left!") well enough to teach him.
But you're going to have to get your own stash, darling. ♥
In my own knitting news, the Wedding Shawl is beginning to look like a shawl.
1 comment:
Very nice bookmark indeed! And I'm loving that shawl.
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