So, I gave in and learned how to knit last friday. I have been co-teaching a fiber art elective at my kid's school and I did the crochet part of it. We are teaching a group of girls ranging from 7-12. So, we are on to the knitting portion, we made our own wooden needles and one of the 7 yr. olds decides she is gonna teach me how (most of the girls already know how to knit a bit because their moms do) She cast on for me and proceeded to show me the knit stitch. I struggled with what to do with the free yarn, it felt so odd to throw it over with my right hand! Then one of the moms said I cold hold it the same way I do for crochet and just pick my stitches. Holy cow, that made it so much easier. Pearling is a challenge, but I have been really working at it and am getting better.

I felt a little guilty setting down the hook and picking up the needles. But, I guess it's good to know how to do both. My heart belongs to crochet and I always seem to root for the underdog. So, I feel like I owe it to my Nana, who tought me how to crochet when I was little, and to everyone who has been working so hard to bring crochet back into vogue and give it a better reputation, to keep teaching people how great it is and showing them it isn't what they imagine it to be.

There really is some serious snobbery with some people who only knit. Even the other moms in my class kinda look down on it as the less sophisticated little sister in a way. Ya Know? There is one girl in my class who has just picked it up so wonderfully and run with it. She makes up her own patterns and seems so passionate about it, YEAH!!!

I just don't want to have to buy a ton of knitting needles now, too. I have far too many crochet hooks as it is!