Helena not only displays her completed projects, but also gives detailed hints as to how she completed them, including the size needles used and her choice of yarn. A good blog to follow, she continues to wow me with every single post. If you’re interested in checking out more of her work or seeing how she completed these snuggly socks you can find it here at Ignorant Bliss.

Leah started me off with some size 13 needles and some yarn of unknown weight and composition – it took me awhile to get the hang of holding the yarn, but once that tiny step was passed it was a breeze! I only had to restart what I was doing once – casting on has become frightfully easy, but I had some trouble getting my stitches mixed up or confused, and occasionally sliding off the needle. Below is what became of this first try…not too shabby for my first shot, I think!

That was enough to get me hooked, but the solid colored yarn was actually proving problems for me, because I had a hard time seeing where to put the needle in as I went along, and things like that. So when I went to Wal-Mart later I picked up some multi-colored yarn and a pair of smaller needles – size 10.5 – and things went MUCH better. I’ve spent a lot of time since undoing and redoing what I was working on – I’m having a hard time “recovering” from mistakes – but below you can get a feel for what my new swatch was starting to look like:

Sorry for the blurry photo! So that particular yarn came with a recommendation for size 7 needles and since I’m LOVING the smaller needles I went ahead and picked up some 7’s (and another roll of yarn!) today, so we’ll see how this goes!

I will keep you all updated on my knitting projects – do you have any knitting advice or a tutorial to share? What is your favorite thing to knit?