Monster Butt!

I started my first dpn project last night. Rupestur of Livejournal has created some cute items, and I completely adore the monsters. So far the only project that made me pick up the dpns.

I've generally been a little fearful of the dpn's and this took me three tries before I got the hang of it (yes, too stubborn to look up the details). First time I was holding two strands together as the pattern calls for, but my knitting is too damn tight. I tried again with one strand and got myself all screwed up...but the third time was the charm and the monster butt has begun. I've already messed up a time or two but all fixable screw ups.


The Monster Butt Has Begun!


Monster Body Complete!

I also started teaching the girl how to knit. I always thought I'd wait until she was 10 or so, but almost 7 seems to be the right age to introduce the needles. She's doing a lot better than I thought and also knows when she messes up, which means even if she does do it wrong she knows as she does it instead of looking at the piece and finding mistakes later. Of all the wrong ways to hold needles, I swear she's found them all. But I realized that she doesn't do a lot that requires much of her hands, so perhaps this is a good thing. I remember when we used to be practicing routines in high school and there were girls who never paid attention to hands and you'd end up with 1/3 of them looking like they were making puppets instead of dancing.....