Genius Hour 2.1

I decided I wanted to learn how to knit for my second Genius Hour. When I started it was not as easy as I thought it was going to be. My knitting supplies had two pairs of knitting needles and came with a small book. I used the book to begin learning the basic steps and I struggled using the pictures in the book at first. It took me quite awhile, but once I figured it out it was super easy.

I started by learning how to cast on a stitch, which is pretty simple. Casting on is making stitches onto one of your needles,so you have a row of stitches to start knitting with. These are how my two ways of casting on turned out.

There are two different ways to knit, a knit stitch and a purl stitch, this is the other thing that I tried this week. I practiced knitting stitches, and then a practiced purling stitches. A purl stitch is basically a reversed knit stitch. In the picture on the left is my attempt on doing the knit stitch. The picture on my right was supposed to be two rows of knit stitches and two rows of purl stitches, and you continue that pattern. As you can tell it got a little messed up, I would think that I was doing knit stitches, but I was actually doing the purl stitches, but then I got it figured out again.

 I thought I did pretty well for my first attempt at knitting. I also think that I am going to enjoy this genius hour, because once I got started it was fun and pretty easy.