Not Just a Granny Sport Anymore

Ah, yes, knitting. The stereotypical grandma's category of excellence.

Not just for elderlies anymore.

Yep. I am learning to knit. Not only is it fun, it challenges your dexterity and all around is a practical skill to have. Maybe my idea of fun is deranged. I dunno. Ever since I got yesterday's chocolate bar into my system, life is a bubbly spiral of idealism. Whatever idealism means. It sounds nice in the sentence, doesn't it?

But pretty words aside, my absolute FAVORITE knitter right now is Rebecca Danger. She has the absolute CUTEST patterns for knitted critters. I especially love this one: 

image obtained from http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/penelope-the-empathetic-monster

Penelope the Empathetic monster!! SO ADORABLE! In her own little feverishly monster-like way. For a beginner knitter like me, making my own Penelope feels like it's light years away... I think I can Magic Loop, but I still have to learn to work in the round with double-pointed needles. Which evidently means I'm going to have to buy double-pointed needles. I'm starting, instead, with another of Rebecca Danger's patterns, Chubby Chirps!

The yellow happens to be specially large.
image obtained from http://rebeccadanger.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553963a50883301543868e1c6970c-800wi

This one is a free pattern, and is also (to my sudden realization) knitted in the round. However, I read online from some person that I can knit it using Magic Loop. Hurray! I don't know if I'm doing it right since my working yarn is tangling up (I might scrap it and start over). Not like, a few knots, but like, fifty million messed up loop-tee-doo tangles, like a lion's mane that hasn't been groomed in forever! Besides, a couple of my stitches are sloppy anyway. So yeah...

Feels good to let that out.

KNIT!!!!!!