Knitting

Recently I have been learning how to knit. I resisted this hobby at first because it seemed a bit too trendy. It turns out it is my favorite hobby to date. Its relatively cheap as hobbies go. You see results quickly and there is a lot of room for improvement. Previous hobbies of mine have been ceramics, spanish, guitar, and sewing. All of these ended up being expensive. Ceramics was $200 for 8 classes. Spanish ended up being about $350 for a semester. Guitar was $50 a lesson. Sewing was not too expensive for the class but the fabric ends up being quite expensive. The real draw back of all these though was the results. All that time and money and I had several small bowls, a few sentences, three songs, and one little girl's dress.

Knitting on the other hand is cheap. You can buy one skein of yarn for about $2 - $4 and that is enough for one scarf generally. I made a mistake free scarf on my second attempt. Right now I am trying patterns which is a bit harder but still enjoyable.

Another plus is that knitting is portable and only requires one person. On a recent trip to the mountains I skipped the snowboarding and knitted this scarf instead.

From Freckle Rock

I was able to knit while watching the Maryland-Duke basketball game. Which may be one of the biggest pluses for those type-A people out there - you can knit while doing other things. I could keep going on about knitting but I encourage you to give it a try yourself and let me know what you think.