How far down the road to learning your craft do you believe yourself to be? Are you comfortable with what you know or are you always striving to learn new skills and add to your knowledge base? Take a look at a few knitting or crochet books and have a look at some of the skills mentioned in the patterns. Can you start your amigurumi pieces with a magic circle, have you ever tried double knitting, how's your intarsia? If you are feeling brave, make a list of some of the skills which you have not yet tried but would like to have a go at, and perhaps even set yourself a deadline of when you'd like to have tried them by.
As a child I learned to knit, purl and somehow turn a heel. I also learned the basic crochet stitches. I remember that I loved craft classes at school. I used to knit small doll clothes and when I was 13 and my little sister was born, I knitted her a jacket almost by myself.
In my teens I didn't knit much, so it's the last 12 years or so that I have been knitting almost daily due to having kids ;)
I still feel that I have lots to learn. As spinning. The above picture was taken last May and I'm sorry to say that I haven't thouched it since... I really want to learn to spin my own yarn, but I haven't given it a proper try yet.
When it comes to knitting and crochet, I feel there are a few things I still have to try learn:
- Entrelac. I'd love to make myself a pair of Entrelac mittens.
- Sew in a zipper. I avoid patterns with zippers because my sweing machine and I are not friends....
- Broomstick lace
- Double knitting. Imagine the thick and warm mittens I could knit.. Like these or these.
- Naalbinding - I'd love to learn this!
