What was your first knitting project??

[segata]

I've got some size 6 needles now.

Anyway,my question is what was your first project?How did it turn out??Looking for ideas

[mom2sol]

A child sized scarf, garter stitch.
It changed width a couple of times because I kept accidentally adding stitches. But I learned how to do decreases too!

[flapjack]

Back in the dark ages, you mean, or the renaissance? First time round it was twenty million scarves, none of which I ever finished. My personal version of the Enlightenment were these booties, which are from a Debbie Bliss pattern that was published for free in a UK parenting magazine when I was pregnant. God bless Debbie Bliss- her patterns drive me insane on a regular basis, but if it hadn't been for that then I'd probably never have seen the light.

[broodymama]

The Punk Knitters soaker pattern. It turned out OK, just not the right size for DD1 at the time.

[dillonandmarasmom]

Oh my gosh...when I was 12? A sweater, blue, acrylic, puke.

This time around, however, I jumped right into babay knitting. A hat that was knit on flats, then sewn up. I finished it, then bought my first circs and knit a Booga bag. From there, I never knit on straights again.

I love knitting and felting bags. So useful, and you can try fun colors without worrying about how it may look on, kwim?

[zoebugsmom]

A wool soaker. It's workable, both DD and DS wore it and I'll use it on the new babe. Lots of obvious flaws, especially in the waistband ribbing. I learned to knit just so I could afford wool covers for our kids. Now it's an obsession.

[honeybunmom]

A hat and booties when I was expecting my first. Both were knit flat and seemed. I bought a kit from Michaels. She was 9lbs and could wear neither. Or maybe I waited too long to put them on, like when she was 2 weeks old instead of right away!

[spero]

A Kitty Pi Bed

Size 6 needles are perfect for cotton dishcloths - somewhere in the "free patterns" link at the top of the forum there are great, easy dishcloth patterns!

[lovesdaffodils]

My first was a dishcloth.

[jojospok23]

Mine was a soaker, I used a tiny birds pattern. I wasn't thinking I would have any great results but I think it came out great-you can see it on my dd here (about three years ago ).

http://babysites.com/site2/abigailda.../1photo204.jpg

[deditus]

The Landscape Shawl from FiberTrends by Evelyn Clark, knit in Cherry Tree Hill Shetland DK Potluck on #8 Addis. I knit it in like 5 days. It is still on of my most treasured objects.

[texaspeach]

dish cloths. I still love to knit dish cloths. it's good to try out a new technique. they don't take long to complete, and they're useful.

[Twinklefae]

A tiny little baby hat for my niece when I was 17. She was too big for it by the time she came home, but I learned a lot. Then it was like 5 years later and I made a "Harry Potter" scarf for my BFF that she still wears.

I got serious when I was pregnant and did the "1932 Soaker" pattern.

[bu's mama]

I took a class...we did a 'patchwork' pillow, all in garter stitch in a nice chunky yarn. I liked it because I got lots of knitting practice, practiced casting on & binding off for each patch, and practice joining.

My first real project was the Einstein coat in the Sally Melville book, The Knit Stitch. I made it for dd who I think was 2.5 yo at the time & she wore it for about 3 years. It was a great project - not too involved, very forgiving, quick because of the size & straightforward directions. It's the one thing I've made that I can't pass along to my niece .

[megincl]

A scarf. When I was six.

And on needles that I made in school.

that's waldorf for you.

megin

[kwilki8]

My first project was a big ripple afghan for my mom. It has cured me of ever wanting to knit an afghan again, as it took forever.

[Alison]

Well, a garter stitch square, under my gran's tuition. Then she helped me make some clothes for my Sindy doll, and my cousin's Action Man. The in Jr high I started knitting again for a bit, and my first project was one of those 80's tank top sweaters. Then when I started knitting again in my twenties, it was a hat and an all in one teddy bear outfit with attached mittens and booties for my nephew. A Debbie Bliss pattern. I would not suggest starting to knit with a Debbie Bliss pattern, I still can't believe I made it through (I hadn't knit for 15 years at that point!). Haven't stopped since though!

[iowaorganic]

I learned to knit so I could make longies. My first pattern was the tiny bird organics longie pattern. But for some reason I used a nylon yarn (knew I needed wool- just didn't want to use something complicated) so they aren't functional. I did a great job knitting them- it was the seaming that got me. So whenever I can I eliminate that step-even if it means rewriting the whole pattern. I hate seaming! Oh and they were on size 4s- so they took a long time..... That was last fall. Since them I have become a full fledged knitter- what a fun (and expensive) year!

[MamaWolfe]

child size scarf in both garter and stockinette, so I could practice. IT came out very badly! I was increasing, decreasing, all sorts of things. I ripped it out, started over, and it was much better ;-) I then started knitting soakers for my unborn baby. I figured if there were mistakes I wouldn't really care. I did makea few mistakes but really, even my first ones came out pretty nice. Just a lot of FROGGING!

[caiesmommy]

First thing I ever knit was baby botties when i was like 10 for a second cousins baby.

Then I didn't knit again until just recently, In the past 2 months Ive started knitting a womans sweater, baby boties, hat, mitts and pants and just finished a scarf for my dads gf...I blame pregnancy nesting hormones!