I very much enjoy your podcasts. Last night I listened to THE DESIGNER IN YOU. I am having fun making (small)changes to patterns (mostly scarves) to fit the person who will receive the gift. I have not yet attempted to design anything, but I enjoyed hearing about these two books.

My niece (the one I’ve gotten started on knitting) looked surprised when I told her I had recently crocheted some strings to tie toddler snack cups to wherever he’s sitting. (Yes, it’s actually a series of strings tied into loops and into each other — no long strings in loops for a small child, in case you were worried, thank you.) So I explained that it’s actually quite helpful for a knitter to know at least a little basic crochet (which is about all I know) — for bootie tie strings, which is how I made the snack cup tie strings or for edgings on knit garments — to look nice or keep things from stretching (such as the neckline of the Baby Surprise Jacket I gave her for her daughter). She apparently had the impression that it was one or the other and people didn’t do both. I disabused her of that notion, but haven’t broken it to her that there are so many people who do both at very high levels of skill. Her mother’s a crocheter, her grandmother (my mother) also, and neither of them knits. I’ve only got a few crochet basics — chain, slip st, sc (which I have to look up each time I use it, I admit). I haven’t managed to make any garments or blankets either — would rather knit.

So maybe I should learn a little more crochet someday, but you know, there’s a whole lot more knitting to learn, too. Somebody mentioned tubular cast on…..I don’t know that yet….

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