As if doing it by hand wasn't hard enough... (Knitting Week)

The most fiddliest week yet. Initially when I saw the knitting machine thet we would be using during the week I was happy that an easier, quicker, non-electric alternative to knitting needles existed.... That was until Bid, our tutor taught us how to cast on. That was pretty much how the tasks were given during the week. Bid would start off with very simple and easy knitting sample - straight stitch, stripes, lace holes, before going on to teaching us more complex techniques such as honeycomb, V, waffle, pyramid, bubble, casting off etc. as a fast learner, I found it easy to complete the tasks as they were given but that was when the machine wasn't acting up causing timing and completion issues.







Just realising how much you can do with the knitting machine and with knot in general made me think of so many ideas for the future using knit and gave me a good insight into the different variations of knitting that until this week iPad no knowledge of. 

Overall the samples I created, my own pattern was my most favourite simply because it was something I had created outside of what we were shown and was able to produce a consistent pattern. Cable was the hardest but it was also another one of my favorite, probably because it's such a common patter to see on knitwear and because a lifetime of curiously as to how it's done.