One of my latest adventures was a knitting class (Knitting 101) at Stitch Buffalo. After the first class, I was super excited! I decided it would be a great idea to practice with the gorgeous yarn I had recently purchased from Lumpy Buttons.
The Hank
When I got home, I pulled the yarn––purple with green streaks and twisted into cute little buns––from my bag.
I untwisted the yarn, looking for the end I would use to cast on. Instead I found ties around the yarn.
I eventually made my way to a You Tube video that directed me to untie the ties, find the end, and roll the yarn into a ball. Words flashed on the screen warning that the yarn may become tangled.
It turns out winding a “hank” into a ball of yarn is no simple task.1
I’m not sure how or what happened. One minute I had a large loop of yarn that I was slowly rolling into a ball; in a matter of, quite literally, seconds, I was staring at a big pile of yarn barf.
Nevertheless, She Persisted
It was tempting to give up, to assume this whole knitting thing wasn’t for me, but I continued with the class, and, with my Stich Buffalo issued supplies, I practiced knitting, purling, ribbing, etc.
I am now, officially, obsessed! And, if I could have brought my knitting to the Mary J. Blige concert (so good!), you better believe I would have!
The Hank Revisited
After approximately ten plus hours untangling the yarn that once sat so neatly bound in my bag, I successfully untangled the unruly yarn––though not without tearing it during the re-winding process. Luckily, that’s not a major problem as far as knitting is concerned.
“So, if you care to find me…” you’ll probably find me knitting, like this woman (ha!).
- For the record, you’re supposed to either put the hank around your neck, or the top of a chair. ↩︎
