Crafty 火曜日 and February's Skill: Knitting

Sometime last year (actually while I was on vacation I think), I decided that there were too many things I was still a beginner in and that I needed to do something about that. So I decided that next year (2014) I was going to devote an entire month to one skill or craft in order to become more acquainted with it, gain more skill in it, and make some fun stuff! By no means do I expect to become a master in any of the skills, but it's a great reason for me to at least try.

I originally planned to start in January, but the stress of returning home and getting here late and getting back into the groove of things, not to mention back into school, made me decide to wait until February to start. I also decided that knitting would be the first skill/craft that I would try.

I'm glad I didn't rush it and glad it's also going well so far. Originally, I was planning on doing two projects from a knitting book I got back when I was high school (see! I've been on the cusp of beginner for too long!), but upon seeing a blog entry and video about arm knitting, I decided to give that a try first.

First I had to get some yarn! Apparently there's a big yarn store around here somewhere, but I don't know where. And they also sell yarn at the Sunday market, but I worked on homework the whole day so I didn't go. Oh yeah, I wasn't able to start this until the 2nd (again because of homework). But anyway! So I got yarn at the BX on base.

I chose these colors since I love blue and this combination reminds me of food for some reason. :P

Here's some details on it!

I feel like the yarn in the video was more bulky, but who knows! It's so easy to do though, getting more yarn and making another scarf is basically a reward.

After many many rewatches of the video and even some mistakes, about an hour later, I had my scarf completed! Even though I have a scarf I started years ago, the arm-knitted scarf is actually my first finished knitted creation! :D

Having completed this as my first project, I'm feeling super motivated to try more projects and even redos of this. Hopefully my next project goes well, but I think I'll finally try and finish that years old scarf first.

Yay filters! :P