Saturday, March 31, 2007

Beginnings

Greetings! First post and tiny step into the ocean of knitting. Ok, so really I've already taken that step but...you know..I haven't blogged it yet. Ha. Blogged.
I'm starting my very first knitting class ever on Monday with the Dragon Lady. I'd say Knitting Nazi buutttt....she has a German accent so it feels slightly inappropriate. I like-Dragon Lady. I went into her store and asked after classes and such (the usual, how much, how many etc..) and she did answer them but boy, she was Stern. She walked me over to the yarn pile she uses for new knitters (expencive stuff) and ... it's furry. Furry! I'm not a big "fur" person, if at all -should I choose to be honest. So I asked her very nicely if I could use a different yarn. Bad idea. She went off on this tirade about how new knitters get discouraged when they have to rip things out over and over so the fur hides the mistakes.

So I gently mentioned that, I'm ok with ripping out (I've been doing crochet for 3.5 years, I'm used to ripping) and then she went on another tirade about how people walk in saying they'll just use "Michael's" yarn and how that's just not right. Wait, wait wait. Did I mention anything about Michael's? No. I'm only standing in a yarn shop crammed full of yarn and she thinks I'm not going to buy from her? She has...issues...about People and their yarn it seems. The final kicker is when I went to leave she said, "Now don't do anything!(I had taught myself casting on/off knit and purl) I'm going to teach you continental and that is the better way. You won't waste hours of your life if you knit continental." I don't know about you but people yelling at me to not do something usually (unless my life is in danger) makes me want to go...do it... So I did. I just practiced the basic Knit and Purl casting on and off. Nothing fancy. Boy did I feel like a rebel. Bad to the bone!

I just ordered the new Stephanie Pearl-McPhee book who's title escapes me at the moment (Edit: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off), but I'm excited. Her books are lovely and humorous and make me giggle out loud. Hard explaining stash hidey-holes to my fiancee though. He'd try to stop me before it got too big...mabey...

1 comments:

Marigold said...

Dragon Lady sounds like a character. I love my LYS, but, sometimes it seems like the owners/workers could use some more people skills...