Great Big City Adventure: Knit 1, Pearl 2

A vice of mine is Pinterest. In the States I use it as an idea center for teaching, for cooking, or when I get that craft itch and want to try something new. Here in China, I use it to feel at home. I browse the home page while sipping coffee and its glorious.

I usually try to avoid the food.... because most of the food is difficult to make here, and it always makes me hungry. (Although, we did make potato-bacon-grilled cheese and it turned out fabulously)

Well, my latest Pinterest gem came in the form of knitting. But not the usual knitting. I used my arms as the needles!!

Crazy, I know... But hear me out. I used real bulky yarn, and then instead of one strand, I used four. Quadruple the fluff! and then knitting is fairly similar to on needles (as far as I know) and you're left with a lovely bulky scarf.

Well, when I was in Wuhan, we went looking for yarn so I could teach my friend how to do it. And in the process, she bought me some needles to teach me traditional knitting.

So, now I am a knitting fiend!!!!

I made two arm knit scarfs, and one traditional knit cowl. I'm working on a long, skinny scarf at the moment. But the best part is I learned to purl (because of that saying I used in the title). So now I knit a row, purl a row and it make a great little pattern.

I've found that I love to knit, and it suits my weird brain that needs something to do always. I can knit while I watch tv or listen to music, or sit on the bus.... I spent a good chuck of the train ride knitting.

My next project is a simple pair of hand warmers. The kind that have no fingers and a hole for the thumb. I found an excellence pattern on Pinterest (of course!) and as soon as I'm finished with my current scarf, its gonna happen.

Until next time.