I am a storyteller, designer, learner, researcher, and an educator. I tend to lean towards projects that are based in understanding someone’s story and communicating that to create new conversation that could perhaps spark change. My design process is heavily dependent on research and learning and my design goal is to educate from my findings.

Favorite tool- Markers and a blank page. Markers are so colorful and expressive and there’s so much possibility with a blank page.

So this week, I tried KNITTING! I knew nothing about it and found myself lost in the yarn section at Michaels. My original goal was to make a massive knit blanket with chunky yarn, but a gut feeling told me to calm down and buy a book for beginners before I . So, I bought a book called KNITTING FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS and found myself struggling to tie the first slip knot.  

After some struggling with a helpful DT classmate, Aine, I was able to learn how to cast on a few stitches. Casting on, from what I understand, is basically making some stitches. See below.

So, this was knitting. Nowhere in my book did I find an explanation for what do even do next, so I started randomly googling “what to do after you cast on- knitting.” Then, I found this gem on youtube.

So here’s the result of that:

and after many hours, this is what I have:

A few thoughts:

I LOVED KNITTING!!!! It was so fun and relaxing. The hardest part was getting the knots right, so asking for help was crucial as well as some googling. Once I got going, I felt a lot better and quickly picked it up. I obviously have a rough start with some missing stitches, but I still feel hopeful about picking it up more as I do it.

One thing: knitting is time consuming. I love doing it and consider it a very zen activity that I want to continue, but I need to scale my ideas of massive knit blankets down a tad.