Knitting School with the Northrups

It’s nice to be able to talk knitting with my mom. (She’ll start listing on Etsy soon.) I made a few Unoriginal Hats because hat season is coming soon, and Mom liked mine so much that she decided to buy the needles and yarn to make her own. So far, it isn’t going well.

She mostly works from patterns that she has memorized, and that are measured in inches rather than rows. I tend to agree, but I also like challenges. And she has many decades of knitting on me and a lot more patterns memorized.

The following IM conversation transpired:

Mom: I am not sure I like this
Mom: I have only done 2 rows
Me:  Quit whining
Mom:  NO
Mom: I keep dropping my [cable] hook
Mom: and I keep having to look back at the pattern
Mom: it is not very fast knitting right now
Mom: now I got to keep track what row I am on boooooooooo
Me: That is my least favorite part
Me: You need one of those counters