Chiquita on Knitting

See the ocean. Travel to a foreign country. Go deep sea fishing. See Mayday Parade and The Maine live in concert. These are just some of the things on my bucket list. Among all these aspirations and dreams, there was something else I wanted to do before I die, and that was learn to knit. My grandmother is a little, well, unconventional. She wears nikes. Her favorite jacket is a chicago bulls jacket with a huge picture of Michael Jordan on the back. She cheats at Skip-Bo. She's just not the knitting type of grandmother. So when I decided that I wanted to learn to knit, I had to go about it in a way other than asking my grandmother. I ended up taking a random trip to Iowa City with my friend Allie to see her sister Anna. It was a random night during winter break, I think it was a tuesday. We made creme brule, and she taught us to knit. It was really fun. Then at the Viterbo Competition on the 8th (we took third by the way), a girl in the group was knitting, and i thought it would be a good idea to start knitting to pass the time at show choir competitions. The day after the Viterbo Competition, I went to the store and bought some knitting materials. I sat in front of my computer (no surprise there, I wish it had UV lights so maybe I could get a tan for once) and looked up how to cast on (aka, start) on Youtube. I came across this video. It worked out really well for me. Anna had already showed me how to do it once, so it was more to just jog my memory. After I watched that video, I found another on the knit stitch, the most simple way to knit. I remembered right away how to do it, and from there it just took off. Now I have almost a whole scarf!! I'll be working on how to knit a hat next.