Improving your Skillset//Knitting and Crochet Blog Week (3KCBWDAY6)

 Today's topic is a good one for me, I love to make lists and find things that I want to learn - for me my knitting career is just starting so why not learn more? I actually learned to knit back in 2005 when I was in hospital for a while; I knit squares and scarves and then life got busy and I stopped knitting. Fastforward to January 2011 and I decided to start knitting again - it took me 11 months but I finally finished my first piece - a knitted bag. It was the first time I had finished something that wasn't just straight up and down knitting, and I was hooked!!! In January I started shopping for yarn, I fell in love with needles and I knit a hat. From hats to finishing 2 shawls by April, I am in LOVE with knitting.
So why not crochet? I've tried but I just can't feel the love for it and I'm not really very good at it at all - so for now I'm sticking to knitting. One day I'm going to get a spindle and try a little bit of spinning my own yarn, that sounds like fun to me. I also want to try dyeing some yarn.

Anyway on to improving my skillset, while thinking about what I want to try next I popped over to Pinterest and gathered some images  so here is my skillset 4 - my goal is to attempt each of these by the end of the year:

Fairisle
I love the look of fairisle but it does make me nervous - where do you put all the yarn? How does it even work? I am going to have a go - but I think I'll start with just a little at first.

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Amigurumi
I love tiny animals, they are so cute - and I know you can do knitted versions, but you have to be so precise, probably even more so than in bigger pieces.

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Intarsia

I love this jumper, and would love to knit something similar:                

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Socks

With the ravelympic fast approaching I'm going to be trying out socks - for definite!!!!



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What's on your list? Do you have a time set for when you want to be finished? I'll be back tomorrow with Day 7.

V xx