Does anyone still knit?

Chi-me

I knit, although I've lost my mojo half way through a laceweight lacy shawl for my mum, it was supposed to be her mother's day present but it will be late as it's now taking the best part of 40 minutes to do one row :eek:

I love Fair Isle colourwork best and always have several wip's. I have most of my work on Ravelry

good_advice

Gosh! yes I have always been a crafter.
I am just finishing a ladies cardigan.. My 4th in the same plain pattern. Easy knitting as not much counting.
These cardigans, x2 gifted and x2 for myself.

Next, I am knitting baby cardigans as x2 grandchildren are on the way.

I crocket blankets in 12inch squares and then crochet them together.

One of my new money saving hobbies is patchwork. I have now sewed about 12 cushion covers. Beautiful colours. A patchwork peg bag and several zipped bags.
This is reusing sheets, clothes. No real outlay.

It fills in time and keeps fingers busy. i even take some craft to do on holiday. I do not like just sitting around.

danih

I learnt to knit in primary school. I'm 33 and I've just started to do it as a hobby.

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I have been knitting for as long as I can remember along with reading, which I was taught by my late Mum and cooking.As a little girl growing up with the privations of rationing and severe shortages of almost anything, recycling (or make do and mend as it was called in those far off days :)) was something everyone learned at a very early age.

It had very little to do with little old ladies and more to do with eking out the stuff you had, as there was very little to buy in the shops.Jumble sales were quite competitive and lots of ladies would and did get quite agressive when it came to bagging an old cardi or anything that could be unpicked and re-knitted.
My late and lovely Mum made all of our knitted clothes for school and even made socks for my two brothers (I learned how to 'turn' and knit a heel by the time I was 10):)

I knit now for charity and make blankets for a charity called The Linus Project which makes blankets for children in all four corners of the world.I have seven grandchildren whom I have knitted for over the years and the boys all have knitted blankets in the football teams colours My eldest DGS Danny is almost 24 and his West Ham Blanket is his prized possesion.(Claret and Blue wasn't my favourite colours to knit though )
Knitting has become very popular again as the cost of buying a cardi or jumper has risen.But also the cost of wool has increased dramatically in the past year or so. If I need whit wool I will hunt out some bootsale for anything white that can be unpicked washed and re-knitted into my charity blankets.after all a babys cardi for 20-30p is far cheaper than a 100 gm ball of wool at £1.50 :) I have a friend who crochets for the same charity and her left over oddments of wool I use to knit squares in a stripey pattern so nothing gets wasted It is also a help for me as I have lymphodema in my right arm and need constant excercise to keep the swelling down. I never go anywhere without my needles and wool and in the evening as long as I am knitting I can watch t.v. and not nod off :):)
True I am a little old lady now but having been knitting for the best part of 65 years its almost second nature and I would feel lost without my needles and wool
So you carry on knitting and enjoy yourself its a great little hobby and can become addictive(I can't pass a CS without haveing a look to see if there is any reduced wool :):))
Oddly enough neither of my Dds knit although the eldest one does the mast amazing minute cross-stitch.She is a business manager of a special needs school and does quite a stressy job and its her way of relaxing and chilling out .
My middle brother who is in his 70s now, learned to knit at school in the mid 1950s when the Hungarian uprising happened, and all school kids in London were asked to knit a blanket square.
Most sailors learned to knit at one time as long voyages meant lots of spare time

Butterfly_Brain

i can knit, crochet and use a loom. i am trying to pass these skills on to dd , but she gives up to easily. i can't do anything like that at the moment because i have just had surgery on my left hand and th stitches don't come out for another week and even after that it will take a fair while to do that sort of thing.

pigpen

My daughter just learned to knit at 19.. I've been knitting since I was 5!! We are both knitting for her baby due in November but I have something underway for her too.. ssshhh

Ravelry is wonderful.

Raquela

37 year old knitter here, I knit every day and have done for about 10 years.

Give 'im a slap!

Little_Vics

Another 37 year old knitter here. I started a couple of years ago, and knitted the vast majority of my christmas gifts last year. I had to start in June, mind you!

I love it - I always have at least 2 projects on the go.

savetosave

I learned to knit and crochet when I was 5 or 6 but didn't knit for years. I took it up again about 5 years ago (I'm almost 47 now) we have a knitting group at work that's meets on Tuesdays on Thursdays and as well as the long time knitters we often have girls in their 20's who come along to learn. Take up your knitting a knit him a woolly hat that you can pull down over his mouth next time he moans. X

pollypenny

I love knitting and have done loads since I retired.

Unfortunately I have done something to my left wrist and am struggling now. I'm in the the middle of an Aran cardie for DIL, too.