Friday night and picked up the needles for a few rows whilst hubby was cooking tea.
Have (now) mastered seed, or moss, stitch, a simple knit one pearl one culminating in lovely little crosses. See photos below.
Unfortunately the useful little book that I am using to influence my next choice of stitch to try, failed to tell me that I needed to move the tail of wool in front of or behind the needle after each stitch. A right mess of extra wool on the needles ensued and was impossible to actually knit. However, it gave me a chance to learn unpicking , which i had to do for 2 rows. I now realise one of the reasons there may be so many crochet hooks I've inherited, mighty useful for picking up stitches! I had forgotten about the soul destroying bits of knitting!
A bit of Internet searching later and i was sorted and 8 rows of moss stitch later am fading from the blue to brown colour of the wool.....
Happy knitting everyone!
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