complete the tkga master knitter hand knitting program, level 1

I’m doing the swatches, but giving myself a hard time with all of the second guessing. I’ll be glad when I can mail it off. I think I’ll be obsessive until someone takes it away.

Today, I joined the Knitting Guild of America. Step number 1 to complete this TKGA Hand Knitting program, Level 1.

I would like to finish this Level 1 this year.

As I knit up the k2p2 rib for Swatch #1 last night and noticed imperfections in my stitches that probably would cause it to be rejected, I had the passing thought “tell me again WHY I thought this was a good idea?? My husband, my mom, my friends, they don’t even NOTICE if a stitch just happens to be a hair out of place, and they’re the ones that really count!!” Oh yeah, I reminded myself, this is something I WANT to do for myself and nobody else…. so tonight I’ll be ripping out the swatch and starting over. will be switching to size 7 needles from size 8, though. Thank goodness there’s no deadline!

This is a goal I added on my first day on 43 Things, and now I’m not sure why I wanted to do it. I’ll leave it here for now, but I think I might prefer to knit things for people rather than completing the tkga program.

I would like to complete the Master Knitter Program. Living in Canada leaves resources very limited, so I am looking for any information anyone might be able to provide regarding courses available in the U.S. or U.K. Many thanks for your help!

I actually did this late last year. When I got my packet back, I needed to rewrite some of my answers and my pattern. I set it aside and haven’t gotten back to it yet, but I want to finish this and resubmit it to TKGA in the next few weeks.

Know that it is VERY common for them to ask that swatches or answers be redone. I understand that most people have to resubmit, even at level 1.

If you’re doing this, make sure to keep in contact with TKGA regarding the instructions. It turns out mine, which I got last year, were WAY out of date. I called (740) 452-4541 (their management office) on Monday and immediately got new instructions emailed to me.

I’m a few swatches in, but those are still in the new instructions. I should be done with this in a few weeks or less.

Stop procrastinating and do this already. You have the yarn. You have everything you need to go ahead and do this – why not just go ahead and, you know, do it?

P.S. Start doing this this weekend, after you finish the Silk Garden socks.

I actually finished ALL levels eons ago. . .

I went ahead and ordered the yarn I’ll need to do this. I can knock this out in two weekends’ time – why not just do it and move on to level 2 (which I know will take more time)?

It’s not like I don’t already have too many projects in the trap, but this would give me a different sense of accomplishment, I think. Once I pass level 3, I mean.