Sophie does 30 things: An Adventure: Knit knit knit

#20. Knit a useable scarf.

I have never been an overly crafty person. I've always loved the idea of being crafty, but somehow it's never been a strong suit for me. However, I also love the idea of creating beautiful things (maybe this is why I'm a musician??), and when I was in high school, my mom, brother, and I all got into knitting one Christmas.

Then, well, you know how hobbies go. You're really into them for a day or two, or a week, and then you set it down and it gathers dust for a year before you think back to it and realize you absolutely dropped the ball on it.

Anyway, I have a lot of talented friends who can knit or crochet, and I decided more recently this was an activity I wanted to pursue. SO. With the help of my friend/travel buddy Sarah (who is a phenomenal knitter, among other things!), I began!

I already had a lot of cheap yarn that was of questionable quality, which meant that it was great for practicing. I gathered it up from my mom's stash, and went to work practicing my knitting. I knit everywhere: on the bus in Croatia, backstage at a San Antonio Symphony concert, while watching Netflix (I find this helps keep me off my phone, and avoids the dual screen/split attention issue), and most recently, surrounded by friends in Philadelphia after teaching one of them how to knit (you go, Maya!!).

Thanks to Sarah's help, I finished a practice scarf with the questionable yarn, and finally felt like I had enough practice to really go for it on the next project.

Done with the practice scarf!

I'm not yet able to read any patterns/knitting directions (I get very overwhelmed very quickly) and I like the idea of a scarf because I can see how even my stitches are. Coincidentally, while in Philly with friends we stopped into a craft store, and I found some yarn that I loved, and thought, "ok, let's do this!"

With a couple of different iterations (and redos), I finally decided that being stuck at home during the Coronavirus was the best excuse that I was going to get to finish this project.