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

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