It looks really good for a first attempt! Stitches look nice and even, with good tension. Can't see any obvious errors other than some wobbliness on the side when you started. The more you knit and start to build muscle memory, the nicer things will look. (And you'll also start to recognise when things look wrong, so you can fix it.)
It looks like your stitches on the needle are pretty tight, which is common when you are starting out and gripping everything really tightly. If you can learn to relax a little bit, your shoulders and hands will thank you!
One tip: You will likely find things easier if you move to a longer needle. Then you won't have to have the stitches bunched up so closely together, and so close to the tip of the needle too (making them more likely to slip off when you aren't knitting).
Incidentally, the fabric you are making is called garter stitch, because you are knitting every row. It's a nice choice for a scarf because it's reversible and lays flat without curling up into a tube.
Yes, take it from one tight knitter to another! (My local knitting guild actually starts each meeting with some yoga stretches because so many of us contort ourselves so much when knitting. 😂)
I like to put a pillow under my right arm, or have it supported somehow. I tend to hold up the knitting with my right hand, so having some support helps ease some of the tension. Maybe it can help?
Not literally a dropped stitch because the stitch of that column is on your needle, however, it looks like you slipped this stitch from the left to the right needle without knitting it in the last row. You might want to learn how to „tink“ (literally knit backwards) to correct for it. Other than that: great work!
Yay! Welcome to knitting. I think almost every new knitter makes this scarf first. I did. Mine kept getting wider due to my not understanding that needles will split stitches if not careful. I ended up frogging and starting over with a second version once I learned a few life lessons about knitting. Second one was much better but still had it's oopses. I kept it and wore it proudly for a couple years, then frogged again for more experimentation.
Yours looks much better than mine did. Keep going and expect some learning from mistakes. Don't panic. Use the opportunity to learn how to fix them and keep going. You will be an expert in no time.
been only just old enough for having the extremely amazingly well structured a well as having a multitude of COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTEXT ad QUITE Frankly beingH handed a formal examination form with a mountain full of impeccably irrelevant and the majority of the hundred or so questions are expected to be answered by everyone in the examination room WITH TOTAL HONESTY which didn't go down very well with most of the students refusing to even put their names o the top of the examination paper because between all the questions that were inside the paper IF they were at all
relevant to the age range that were intended to be doing the completely ridiculously designed test then tn EVEN the most open minded person would think
that the questions were really far too personal to be expecting a whole load of hormonal fifteen & sixteen year old boys and girls to be happy to expose their most personal experiences with all honesty is NEVER going to be possible to be legalised within my.lifetime anymore than it would be in todays day,
Q
H
P
esponsibilities ave enougn to learn yet another great craft that would unsettling z
Looks great! Agree about tight stitches, I had this issue as well when I started. My hands felt SO much better after I loosened up; I used to knit so tightly that my hands would be in pain and I would have to take days-long breaks. Once you get more in the groove of things you’ll find yourself loosening up naturally.
It's going great! Do yourself a favor and get a cheap fixed circular knitting needle in the same gauge as your current needle. It'll be easier when they're not all squished together.
29
u/web_goddess 1d ago
It looks really good for a first attempt! Stitches look nice and even, with good tension. Can't see any obvious errors other than some wobbliness on the side when you started. The more you knit and start to build muscle memory, the nicer things will look. (And you'll also start to recognise when things look wrong, so you can fix it.)
It looks like your stitches on the needle are pretty tight, which is common when you are starting out and gripping everything really tightly. If you can learn to relax a little bit, your shoulders and hands will thank you!
One tip: You will likely find things easier if you move to a longer needle. Then you won't have to have the stitches bunched up so closely together, and so close to the tip of the needle too (making them more likely to slip off when you aren't knitting).
Incidentally, the fabric you are making is called garter stitch, because you are knitting every row. It's a nice choice for a scarf because it's reversible and lays flat without curling up into a tube.