Knitting Tutorials

Today I'm feeling quite happy about things. My asthma seems to be calming down and getting easier and I am just loving blogging! It has been such a good distraction from my asthma and all the lovely messeages about my bobble hat and well wishes have really made me smile! So I guess you could say I'm feeling pretty grateful for finding blogging, all the talented people I have found through blogging and grateful for discovering knitting too. Becuase without knitting I would never have found the amazing world of blogging! This is why today I am going to link up this tutorial post with Maxabella

Tutorial 2 - Casting on

So now that we have mastered the slip not the next thing you need to know is how to cast on.

Step 1

Start with the slipknot on your left hand needle

Step 2

Insert the right hand needle into the stitch from the bottom. Keep the needles crossed - left over right

Step 3

Wrap the yarn round the back of the needles and through the middle

Step 4

bring the right hand needle underneath the loop and to the front

Step 5

Bring the right hand needle forward so it crosses the left hand needle

Step 6

Pull the right hand needle out to the right

Step 7

Put yarn from right hand needle onto left

Step 8

Remove right hand needle

Step 9

Pull Long end of yarn tight, this is your second stitch

Step 10

Repeat process until desired number of stitches

First FO Friday - FFF

Well here it is, after all my complaining on Wednesday about feeling like I wasn't getting anywhere, I finally finished my bobble hat! So here it is

The photo hasn't come out great (I think it was the light from the window) but you get the idea. I'm pretty pleased with the outcome, other than all the measuring and feeling poorly during the week it wasn't actually too bad to knit. It's amazing how different you feel when you or under the weather. But I am also pleased to report that the steroids seem to be working and also the antibiotics and the nebulizer I had on Wednesday so fingers crossed I'm over the worst of it! Yay, back to knitting! Thanks again for all your lovely messages xx

Well that's it, my first hat, that sounds pretty cool!

For more FO visit Tami's blog here

Wip Wednesday #2

First let me apologise, today's wipw is not going to have much to show and I'm not going to be my normal cheery self either. I'm not feeling so great. In fact I've not been feeling great for a week now, my asthma is playing up and I'm back on steroids for it. And today I thought I would be feeling much better as I've been on the steroids for a few days now but its as bad as ever and I'm going back to the doctor, which sucks as I wanted, really wanted to go back to work tomorrow but that isn't looking likely. I haven't even really felt like knitting. Anyway enough with my pity party.

So as a result this week has been pretty slow knitting wise. Still trying to get my bobble hat completed but all I'm seem to be doing is measuring it.

It needs to be 18cm before I can start decreasing and finish it and it just seems to be taking forever. Plus I must have the most uninspiring tape measure ever, there are so many cute, funky ones, I'll need to get one.

Anyway as you can see from the above photo I also made a pom pom for my bobble hat, which did manage to put a smile on my face for a while.

Anyway I'm going to go and for more upbeat and productive wipw's please visit Tami's Amis blog