Back to knitting!

 One of my goals this year was to return to my abandoned hobbies, one of them being knitting.

I started around 2022 after feeling heavily inspired by Marzia, whose husband (Pewdiepie) I used to watch religiously on Youtube. Marzia has been a huge inspiration when it comes to fashion and creativity since almost forever; although I’m not the most creative person (yet), everything she did and how she did it always resonated with me. 

I’ve always been curious about trying other hobbies other than sewing, so when I saw Marzia learning how to knit, I took it as my sign to learn as well. Her sweaters always looked so cute!

I was just beginning to learn how to do squares with a garter stitch when Marzia posted about her own sweater pattern from her Maì Accents account. Of course, me being me, I instantly bought it. I mean, look at how cute it is!

Obviously, this was too advanced for me. But I wanted to have it beforehand, and I’m glad I bought it before she closed her store. 

When I opened my old big box where I store my yarn, I found four squares knitted together. I think I was trying to make my first blanket, so I decided to continue it for practice. It’s really wonky (and disastrous), but I love it; I decided to call it my Frankenstein blanket, or Franket for short. It has the face of a child only a mother could love.

As I kept working on the next squares for my Franket, I couldn’t help but think about other projects I wanted to do. For example, book sleeves or… a book thong. 

However, I grew a little frustrated after noticing that all these cute Pinterest tutorials are for crocheting. I know I could benefit from learning both but I don’t want to until I master knitting a little more. Am I delusional for hoping these could be done by knitting? Maybe.

I’m aware that knitting and crocheting make different textures but I’m insanely curious. If a cute kindle envelope is one big [maybe tighter] square away, I’m gonna try!

Friends, you have been in the blogging community longer than I have, so if you have any blog recommendations from any fellow knitters, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could share them!