teach someone to knit

Mabel brought her knitting along to the pub last night so I could see how she’s done. I taught her to do that! Just gotta show her purl next, there’ll be no stopping her. She’s already reeling off all the other things she wants to make!

She was so excited to be knitting it was great. We went to budget wools to pick out yarn. Got chunky yarn cos I figured that would knit up pretty quickly, she picked out grey and blue to make a scarf for neil. Showed her what to do and set her off, a coupla hours, some good music and a birrova gossiping later we had about four or five inches of garter stitch scarf!

later to give her a knitting lesson. Looking forward to it but a bit nervous. Can I teach? Apparently she doesn’t have the longest attention span in the world so that could be interesting! Her mum tried to teach her once and I get the impression it mighta been a bit ardous! Gonna take her to the wool shop to pick out something yummy and inspiring. Reckon choosing something herself & making monetary investment in it will probably help keep her going with it than just grabbing bits out of me yarn stash. At any rate it will be cool to hang out together even if it’s less stitching and more bitching!