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First knitting post from beginner knitter

Hi! I just learnt how to knit a couple months ago, when I started to attend a meetup group with my mom. I learned to crochet in school, but I always failed to learn knitting, maybe because I'm left handed?. But something clicked now that I'm an adult and I'm hooked. I'm mostly taking on smaller projects like hats and mittens, these are the first I made to give away to a friend for her little girl (3yo) but they ended up being too small lol.

Used free patterns found online, the mittens were done with crochet. I don't know what else to put in here 😅 So feel free to ask if I'm missing some important info here, please.

Edit: Thank you everyone for your kind words, I look forward to keep sharing my projects in such an encouraging and lovely community 💕

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  • Those look great! Your cables especially are very neat. I think I spent like my first 6 months knitting twisting my stitches until some kind soul straightened me out.

    • Ugh. Is that kind soul still in this world? I keep having to google the matter and squint at it for prolonged periods, and something about the difference has never quite clicked with me. The terminology, maybe. "This leg has to go on this side," and all my brain does is verify that there are indeed two legs and a hole in the middle. Good job, Brain! 👍

      • I sure hope they are still around! I think it was a member on craftster.org, which is no longer, sadly.

        At the risk of looking like an actual lunatic, please allow me to share my preferred way to visualize the “legs” of a correctly-seated and twisted knit stitch: https://i.imgur.com/qSpPd18.png

        Not sure if that will make any difference for you, but the visual is always entertaining to me.

  • I don't know why, but the colors on that pompom make the whole thing unusually cute.

    You haven't missed anything. I seem to always see each side saying the other is more difficult (it's crochet, crochet is more difficult), but they really just both require sufficient stubbornness. I've mainly stuck with toys/amigurumi, and I'm only just in the very baby stages of branching into anything wearable myself, so here's hoping for minimal frustration. Or at least for mistakes horrible enough to be funny.

    • I feel like one is left brain and one is right brain 🤣 obligatory I'm a knitter, but I tried crochet recently and how the hell do you even know where you are? Like knitting you can count and it's super concrete and crochet just feels like a confusing free for all lmao.

      (And I know if I put more time into it maybe I'd catch on and knitting probably felt the same when I started blaahblah)

      • Oh, for sure, I was in tears my first crochet project because I had no idea what a stitch even looked like in order to tell where the needle was supposed to go, and the guy in the tutorial kept covering it with his hands as he worked. It was awful.

        With knitting, it's just..always on the needle. With crochet, you have to be able to tell different things apart from two different angles and for a beginner, the whole thing's bull.

        There are multiple ways to move onto the next round, with different favorites for ease of use or a prettier look, but the most-used imo seems to be the one where everything is made in an upwards spiraling fashion, making physical stitch counts worthless until you've finished a row you may not remember the beginning of.

        For these reasons, markers are god. Far more so than my experience with knitting. Losing my place on this row or not being able to see some important point on the previous just leaves me frogging back til the count matches some definite point, and that could be an hour of lost work.

        Fortunately, I wanted to make a little buddy triceratops more than I wanted to admit anything beat me ever. (Really, there are just very few good knitting patterns for toys, so I had no other option)

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