First Knitting Project

Here is my very first knitting project. I have listened to all the rest of the guys on my Men Who Crochet group. I also have seen the wonderful things my wife has done with knitting. Her site is right here. Where you can see the many projects she has done. I got some basic lessons in casting on and doing the basic knitting stitch from a LYS called Woolgathering located about 40 min from home. Barb the shop owner is just so much fun to talk with. Also very knowledgeable about her products.

Any way here are the pictures and please don't mind the "tension" problem as it took me a while to get a looser tension. I started with a very tight tension and my wife lovingly showed me a better way to hold the yarn and also reminded me that I needed to "loosen" up a little :)

Just a quick update

Thought that I ought to post an update to this blog so that anyone searching would see that I am posting on occasion :)

I am posting a picture of a Flag Afghan that I did from Lion Brand yarn. It can be found on their website at the following page. Americana Afghan is the title of the afghan. I used the recommended colors for the afghan and it turned out very nicely. Lion Brand suggests using short tails when changing colors. I believe I purchased an extra skein of the "Red" and the "White" so that I would have more than enough to do the afghan.

I am also posting a couple of pictures of the afghan supervisors :) One of the supervisors has already been posted on this site so you may have seen her before. She modeled the start of one of my socks I crocheted. I have to hunt down a picture of our third cat Simon. The tortoise colored cat is Heidi, aka Heidiner, etc. the white cat is Snowdrop.