Here is some of my knitting progress so far:

My first project. This is the classic knit or garter stitch. Check out the row with the holes – those are on purpose.  It’s called yarn over.

I read in a knitting book that when you get in the rhythm of knitting, your mind can do something similar to meditating. I think I have a LONG way to go before I reach Nirvana while knitting – apparently I have a thing for licking my lips while I am working on it. Every time I stop my lips feel dry. Guess I need to relax; or try sitting in the lotus position while holding my knitting needles.

Tonight I learned how to purl. If you alternate knit and purl you get a ribbed pattern. Sometimes I couldn’t remember if I needed to knit or purl so some of my rows (well, most of them) aren’t even.  I’ll have to work on that before I make a homemade scarf for you…

Here’s a complete view of tonight’s work.

And apparently I know how to use the fancy shmancy camera as well as I know how to knit. It looks like I had the camera set on black-and-white and didn’t even know it.