How to Knit an Octopus

[Clueless Morgan]

For a real challenge, how about knitting up one of these?

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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!

I'm getting crochet supplies today.. knitting looks too hard! I guess if someone taught me though..Maybe you could teach a Google group video call of us!? Pleeeeaaaaazzzzzeeeee!!!!

I still say knittinghelp.com is the way to go - they do their videos from the knitter's perspective which is WAY better than what I could improvise with my built-in webcam.

I just wanna make hats. Lots and lots of hats. And baby booties. And baby clothes. and scarves!

Baby things are SOOOOO satisfying to make - they're pretty quick and they're generally really cute.

Once you get the hang of knitting and can knit "in the round" (on multiple needles which is how you knit hats) and with two colors (stranded knitting or instarsia) than I'll send you the pattern I have for this hat:



It's even cuter when it's on a kid.

I want to do baby shoes and scarves myself. Scarves should be easy, right?

Yes, scarves are easy. They should also comprise all ten of your first ten knitting projects. They're great to learn to knit because you learn the two basic stitches through sheer repetition (knitting and purling), you learn to not drop stiches and how to fix them if you do, you can use them to learn stitch patterns, increases, decreases and whatnot... and you generally don't get too heartbroken when you royally screw up and have to start over. :p