Hello and welcome to my first blog entry.
OK, to set the scene, around 2 months ago(early June 2008) it was a bitterly cold Winter morning here in Melbourne Australia. My car was covered in ice, it was dark outside, and my only hand knitted beenie that I had purchased some years previous and worn pretty much religiously ever since was wet in the wash. It was simply too cold to not have a hat on and too early for shops to be open. I had to put gas in my car, and after doing so at a local petrol station and venturing inside to pay, I noticed some beenies on a stand in the corner. I picked one I liked, not noticing any pricing on the stand, made my way to the counter, and after finding out it was in excess of $30 I was to dumbfounded to do anything else but pay for it. I left that petrol station with only one thing in mind, I was going to learn how to knit.
I asked around and quickly made the decision that I would teach myself, the people that I knew that knew anything about knitting, didn't know enough to be able to competently teach me, and so my quest began........
Initially this will be a knitting blog, covering the hurdles and triumphs I encounter while teaching myself to knit. I'd like to think I will be documenting my projects, the skills I learn, the answers to problems I solve aswell as promoting the resources most helpful to me in my quest.
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Hey Gavin, I found your blog on Ravelry. I'm also a self taught knitter, who lives in the Mornington peninsula area, I can tell you that there are places to aid the yarn-passion. Red Hill market for starters, there's a crazy lady there with a label called ixchel who spins and sells fantastic yarns. There's a chock-a-block yarn shop on main street mornington. There's op shops for cheaper yarn, and the best thing to help is fellow knitters blogs. My favorite being knitter extraordinaire http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/
Old school library books, like Readers digest complete needlework books etc can be of great help too. Also I'd reccomend you tube videos if you're like me and need to SEE it to BELIEVE IT.
happy knitting!
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