When I have spent hours working on knitting a sweater, I want to make sure it looks as good after a dozen washes as it did the day I was knitting it. Knitting consists of loops called stitches pulled through each other.
It doesn't care what month it is or what holiday is approaching, there is always something fun to knit. Different materials have different frictions and grip the yarn differently; slick needles such as metallic needles are useful for swift knitting, whereas rougher needles such as bamboo are less prone to dropping stitches. Knitted garments are often more form-fitting than woven garments, since their elasticity allows them to follow the body's curvature closely; by contrast, curvature is introduced into most woven garments only with sewn darts, flares, gussets and gores, the seams of which lower the elasticity of the woven fabric still further.
There are old favourites such as books and magazines. Patterns and pictures can be created in knitted fabrics by using knit and purl stitches as "pixels"; however, such pixels are usually rectangular, rather than square, depending on the gauge of the knitting. Your mistake makes your project uniquely yours.
There are many knitting guilds and other knitting groups or knitting clubs. You'll be amazed at how much faster the second, third, and fourth version of the same pattern can be.
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