I’ve had a little more success with the dreaded knitting today. Mum came around to do our weekly shopping today and showed me a different way that rings a bit of a bell in the dark recesses of my memory. Seems I was trying to force my Australian-but-wannabe-English brain how to cast on the American way and strangely enough it was having none of that! Nanna was English and so she naturally taught me the way her mother had taught her etc etc. Luckily Nanna had also taught my Mum the same way so Mum was able to refresh my memory okay. Well, sort of okay. There was a lot of confusion with "just flick that over" and "wait, that doesn’t look right - give it back to me again", but we got it eventually.

So I have one row or something cast on and tonight I’ll have a go at umm… binding it? Sealing it? Making it neater anyway - Mum didn’t know what it was called, just that it makes the initial stitches stronger and you do it before you start the actual knitting. Either way I’m pretty confident I remember how it went so I’m not anticipating any problems. Then I can start knitting my very boring beginner scarve in the strange multi-coloured wool I have that I suspect all beginner knitters use in the beginning because it makes the stitches stand out from each other. Eventually I’ll have to ask Mum to show me how to stop I suppose!

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