Over my head

So I knew I had to change up the pattern. I think i ended up tripling the project in size, but it seems to be knitting up to scale now.

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Damned if I don't want to give it a go though.

If you're interested... this is the vision.

how did you get into knitting? I see all your gorgeous projects and I'm always curious how to start, I think it's such a cool art form!

also, do you have a favorite TAD song? I love hearing other people's music tastes

Hi! Thank you for taking the time to send an ask! I love you for it.

Various generations of my family tried and failed to teach me as a child. Despite my grandma, mum and sister trying to teach me, I just couldn't pick it up. They would show me and I would watch them and then I would try to copy them and it was a disaster all round. Skip ahead to my late teens/early twenties, I picked up a knitting magazine and they had written instructions with photos, and I read the instructions and I followed along and suddenly I could knit. I think the reason my family couldn't teach me was what I call the mirror effect. I was watching them do something from the opposite angle that I was attempting to do it, and so it wasn't making sense to me. Discovered double knitting about 12 or so years ago and it is my absolute favourite technique.

I have two favourite TAD songs and that's not me being greedy. I like to call them my head favourite and my heart favourite. A head favourite is a song that you recognise as being brilliant in its composition, melodies, harmonies, lyrics etc. And you think it deserves all of the awards.

A heart favourite is a song that speaks to you on a fundamental level, whether spiritually, emotionally or whatever. It's a song that reaches deep inside you and leaves you feeling seen.

My head favourite is Battle Cries. I genuinely think it's an amazingly written song and is absolutely perfect, which is why it was so wonderful to hear the utterly charming shambles it became at the Hay Festival gig.

My heart favourite is Farewell Wanderlust, and since I've waffled too much in this post already, you can read why in the linked post.

If anyone wants to send me a non-religious ask, maybe about knitting or the amazing devil or shoot from the hip, please do. My inbox needs cleansing.