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7/5/2004 7:55:43 PM
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bets
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What (and when) was the first project you ever knitted? (UFOs count!)
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7/5/2004 8:09:02 PM
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Patricia
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Mine was a baby blanket for a friend made out of redheart yarn. I picked it up to work on and some how I turned it the wrong way and made my first "short row".
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7/5/2004 8:23:58 PM
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bea
Posts 624
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A scarf, of course, no originality here :-). I used one of the Catherine Wingate stitch patterns from knitting.about.com... it was a pale blue dk chenille (it took FOREVER to finish!) that made me look particularly jaundiced, unfortunately, so I gave it away.
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7/5/2004 8:47:38 PM
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My first project was a pair of socks and then a scarf with eyelash yarn.
Heather
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7/5/2004 8:56:41 PM
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benne
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My very first project was a red potholder that I did not know how to get off the needles when I had knitted the size I wanted and had to wait until I saw my grandmother again to bind it off. I was about nine or ten. My first "garment" was a pair of those little houseslippers by the pattern that is older than God. I was 11. I still have them. They were pink acrylic. I remember ripping them out so many times that the yarn got very thin and frayed. They are quite the masterpiece. lol
Benne
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7/5/2004 9:01:21 PM
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Sandra D
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About 25 years ago, a vest from a Columbia Minerva pamphlet in a burgundy acrylic yarn. It had about 20 mini-cables around and took a long time--also I remember with pain working the button band separately and sewing it on. The result was disappointing, made me look heavy and all that work! So I was scared off knitting until year 2000 (except for a UF cardigan still in storage someplace!).
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7/5/2004 9:16:50 PM
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bets
Posts 18976
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Mine was a red dust mitt of Boye yarn on size 8 plastic needles at Girl Scouts. I gave up because I was halfway done, and went to the meeting, and it was wrong-no ribbing at the cuff! (I was pretty sure my mom didn`t want a dust mitt for Mother`s Day-even at the ripe old age of 10.)
When I was 25, I made my ex this WWII era pattern (reprint) sweater with a turtleneck-with this ecru Lion brand speckled with blue, black, and brown. It was UGLY (in retrospect) but he wore it when he picked me up from the Frankfurt Airport-so I could find him. Probably the last nice thing he did for me.
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7/5/2004 9:41:16 PM
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Jamie
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THe very first project - about age 10 was a piece of blue knitting/purling (Ican`t remember ever finishing it!) The first useful project at age 16-17 was a pair of socks for myself. I suppose I wore them and knitted many more socks (now socks don`t interest me, even with the fancy yarns and all their patterns.
Jamie
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7/5/2004 9:50:44 PM
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thechartreuseshepherd
Posts 1913
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Christmas about 1958???? I got a kit made by Boye It had huge wood needles and a skien of white acrylic yarn and a book with a variety of projects to choose from. I made a pair of slippers.
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7/6/2004 3:50:58 AM
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Les
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Mine was a cardigan in about 1967. Mom chose the pattern and yarn which was a pale blue tweed in a soft acrylic. it had a picot edge and was actually quite pretty but I was just entering my teens and wanted to wear something cool, um,not pretty! I started crocheting and made some groovier things like those cloche hats (didn`t Ali McGraw wear one in "Love Story"?) which made me feel cool especially when I was asked by some very cool young woman at the ski store to make a bunch for her and her friends! $1.49 for the yarn and sold for $10-$12, I think! - throw away those knitting needles!! Oh yes, then there were the knitted slippers somewhere in there - garter st. up to the toe which was ribbed. I don`t think I knit again til I was about 20 and made a few (cool) short waisted cardigans.
Les
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7/6/2004 6:03:19 AM
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A garter stitch hat made out of gray wool-ease when I was pregnant with my second daughter. I worked on it while waiting in the doctor`s office, and I remember thinking that it was going to be the cutest little hat I had ever seen. I couldn`t believe I was actually making it, and that it actually looked like a hat.
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7/6/2004 6:08:11 AM
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carrie
Posts 285
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bets, mine was 6 inch squares for WW11. The yarn was given to school children to knit afghans for the troops. I remember vividly the bright pink yarn and plastic needles that bent quite readily. But, for some reason, I don`t remember actually how I learned. Carrie
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7/6/2004 6:12:15 AM
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carrie
Posts 285
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I forgot got to say I was in the 4 or 5th grade. Carrie
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7/6/2004 6:22:04 AM
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Cate
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The first that I remember was a hat, knit in the round, fair isle with lots of different colors. My cousin Jane taught me how to knit it. Ribbing and then just make it up as you go along. I was a sophomore in college (1964) and knit & gave away many of those hats. My cousin now lives in New Orleans and I talked with her recently. She still knits hats - using wild combinations of yarn and found materials. People buy them right off her head. She will be wearing one, person will ask Where did you get that hat? And she will say, I made it & it is for sale. She sells several a week.
Cate
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7/6/2004 7:28:38 AM
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My very first project had to be dalmon colored doll dress when I was about 6 or 7. I stillhave the needles. It must have been quite the inspiration - I did not knit again till I was about 16 and made a chevron ski sweater for my boyfriend in white and two colors of blue. I remember it as coming out nicely, although I don`t know what I would think if I could see it now. After that I did not finish anything again till I was about 34, and since then, it has just been one long yarn binge..
I have not finished as much as you guys , but the Colors, the colors, Man....
BTW, I am enjoying my mental image of a WWII soldier, in a black and white movie, snuggled under a bright pink afghan...
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7/6/2004 8:02:15 AM
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ecasey
Posts 2668
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Hmmm, I think it was either a sweater for Sindy (that`s our version of Barbie at home, with a more believable chest size and less orthodontically aesthetic teeth, LOL) or a pair of leg warmers... showing my age there! Yes, it was circa 1981!
Eileen.
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the STARS!" (Oscar Wilde)
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7/6/2004 8:48:39 AM
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When I was first learning as a kid (9 or 10), I remember working on something, but I don`t think it had a label like "sweater". It was just something to play with.
After that, it was a total disaster of an afghan. I`m always attracted to largish-scale projects, so doing something small like a hat never crossed my mind. My gauge varied so wildly that some parts of the blanket were 3/4 the size of other parts. My mom`s cat loves it. :)
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7/6/2004 9:46:30 AM
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Fran
Posts 351
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I guess I`m a late bloomer...my grandmother tried to get someone to teach me to knit when I was about 7...didn`t take at all; my first finished, usable, wearble knitting project was an aqua, teal and black sweater in acrylic with Greek key detail and black stand up collar, made almost word by word from EZ`s Knitting without Tears, when I was about 38!!! That`s not to say that I hadn`t crocheted mega numbers of afghans in the meantime, which I had, but never really got into knitting; then a big blank with not much knitting or crocheting until first grandchild (who is now 3-1/2)...and THEN, I found Elann and it has been a downhill slide to SBLE ever since!!! I live with my yarn all around me, and have gone almost completely to knitting because it uses less yarn than crocheting, which is important when you do big projects with (relatively) expensive beautiful yarns, and because I find the two straight sticks can make such wonderful patterns...
Love to all,
Fran
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7/6/2004 10:08:55 AM
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LisaB
Posts 547
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The first thing I ever crocheted was a hippie dippie purse, back in the `70s. The first thing I ever knitted was a not-so-different purse, for my eldest daughter, and that was 17 months ago. (Okay, the VERY first thing was a very furry blanket as a baby gift, but it was...let`s just say that it`s nice that fuzzy yarns can obscure the oops-es. Less knitting, more random yarn loop pullings.)
I *planned* learning to knit for several years before that - just did not have the time or patience with a newborn and toddler in my arms. In the meantime, I got a head start on collecting knitting books, patterns, and yarn.
Today, my average finish rate is one project every 2.71 months, and having done the math, I have enough stash to last me 29.8 years, and enough knitting projects on my to-do list to last me 482 years.
I`m on my 7th project right now, my third attempt at a pair of socks. Knitting does teach a person patience, doesn`t it?
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7/6/2004 10:09:02 AM
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LisaB
Posts 547
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The first thing I ever crocheted was a hippie dippie purse, back in the `70s. The first thing I ever knitted was a not-so-different purse, for my eldest daughter, and that was 17 months ago. (Okay, the VERY first thing was a very furry blanket as a baby gift, but it was...let`s just say that it`s nice that fuzzy yarns can obscure the oops-es. Less knitting, more random yarn loop pullings.)
I *planned* learning to knit for several years before that - just did not have the time or patience with a newborn and toddler in my arms. In the meantime, I got a head start on collecting knitting books, patterns, and yarn.
Today, my average finish rate is one project every 2.71 months, and having done the math, I have enough stash to last me 29.8 years, and enough knitting projects on my to-do list to last me 482 years.
I`m on my 7th project right now, my third attempt at a pair of socks. Knitting does teach a person patience, doesn`t it?
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