KCBW 2012 #6: Improving Your Skillset

So, today I’m supposed to talk about how I feel I am doing in my knit and crochet skillsets.

Most of you know I can crochet like a champ. I’ve made tunics, blankets, skirts, and toys, and I can do them pretty quick if I feel like it. But there’s still some areas I either don’t have a lot of experience with or haven’t tried at all. Some of the ones I’d like to at least try or improve within a year or two are:

• Broomstick Lace
• Hairpin Lace
• Tunisian Crochet

I’m a lot worse at knitting than I am with crochet. I can fudge a crochet pattern and get it to fit me, but I’m not really good with fixing my gauge at all in knitting. This is why I have not yet knitted myself a sweater.  I can knit lace like a champ, but if it has to be a certain size, fuggatabouddit. Here’s a list of things I need to do and things I suck at doing and have to fix in knitting:

• make a sweater
• entrelac
• fair isle
• double knitting

There’s more, but if I make the list too long, I’ll never do any of them.

Oh, and here’s a couple recent achievements – one each for knit and crochet – that I haven’t gotten around to posting the FO information to this blog yet. :)