2 NEW Knitters

Christmas Day my niece from Ohio, Jennifer, asked if I would show her how to knit - HOW did I forget to blog about this!!!  I got out a circular needle and some spare yarn and demonstrated for a few minutes.  Fairly quickly she was doing well.  I gave her a small paperback I had picked up at Wal-Mart back when I was a newbie trying to figure out how to do a yarnover.  I only showed her the knit stitch after I cast on 15 or so stitches.  She seemed encouraged and said she would go to the library when she got back to Ohio and get another book.  I sent her home with a circular needle and some yarn to start.  Then earlier this week, another niece who lives closer, Jeannie, called and asked if I could come over Friday afternoon (today) and teach her.  We had a little more time - just me and her newly adopted Parson Russell terrier, Russ.  Again, I cast on 20 stitches, demonstrated the knit stitch and the purl stitch and again, fairly quickly she caught on.  We've got a date for next Friday afternoon.  I've always hesitated to teach someone else 'cause I don't knit the way the demonstrators do on Knitty Gritty (yeah, I know it doesn't matter).  I think my final "product" looks fine but I haven't had the luxury of having others to knit with. I learned everything I know about knitting - starting with Common Threads - and then from there it's been a blog, blog, blog, blog world - so much information - I love it!  Maybe next time I'll post a picture of a swatch - feedback will be appreciated, although I can't say I'm likely to change at this point unless there's some compelling reason that I should modify my method somewhat.  Hey, look at me, posting without pictures!  REALLY though, I do wish I'd taken pictures of them knitting - I was so proud!!