I learned to knit when I was little, my Nan and my Mum taught me although I don't think I ever finished anything LOL. I picked it up again when I was pregnant with my second son back in 1988. I made 2 baby jumpers (one of them was very complicated) and a large intarsia jumper for myself. Then I hung my needles up until February this year when I got the urge to knit again. I got some needles and yarn and started knitting my (so far unfinished) chunky sweater jacket. Then I got the bug...
This was my first FO, my felted WIP basket/bag. My notes on Ravelry say:
"Basic knitted bag, co 40, garter stitch for 15 rows (first ball of wool). Pick up stitches from the other sides and knit in the round until its about 1/3 taller than you want it to be after felting or in this case until I literally ran out of wool :-).
Not great but still not too shabby for my first fo in 20 years LOL"
I used Freedom 100% Wool from Twilleys of Stamford in 408 Moorland and really enjoyed it. Of course the wool was super bulky so it didn't take long at all - just what I needed to get me into knitting properly. I quite literally used 5 balls to make this (you may see on the photo that I had to use a small amount of acrylic to finish the binding off. At some point I managed to lose the stitch marker for the beginning of the row so I had to guess where the handles went, and of course I got it wrong and then I bodged it when I made them larger but it was bound to happen.
I am still happy with it even if it was a bodge at the end and it gets daily use :-)
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