Knitting, knitting & more knitting

As you can imagine, I've spent my entire Sunday...yep that's right, knitting! After talking with one of my mom's cousins, I decided it was high time I attempted to knit something larger than a hat or scarf...so today, I started my first knitted afghan ever :) While I have made many afghans, they have all been crocheted, so this is a bit new for me.

Last year for my birthday, a friend gave me a knitting kit with all kinds of nifty & helpful knitting tools, but until today I'd never used most of them. Today, I have officially become a fan of row counters & stitch markers!

I think one of the biggest reasons why I never attempted any large knitted items was that I was afraid of losing my place in such an involved pattern. But, with the help of my new spiffy tools, losing my place is no longer an issue :)

Although I'm only about 1/6 of the way finished, but I'm thrilled with the outcome! I plan on outlining all of the squares of the afghan in baby pink and/or yellow :)



So, if there's something you've been relunctant to try, sometimes all it takes is the right tools to make a big project seem totally possible!