My ten year old granddaughter is very happy to discover that even after all these years she still retained some of the knowledge.
She claims it is "just like riding a bike. You never really forget how." She's doing a wonderful job. I'm very proud of her. She says, "I knit and I'm proud", like the lyrics in this YouTube video.
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YES! I love it!!! I was her age when I taught myself knitting!
You taught yourself at that age PJ? That's wonderful! I was taught by my mother when I was seven years of age. I had been begging to learn since the age of two or three. Mom tried to teach me spool knitting instead but I didn't want anything to do with it because it wasn't "real" knitting in my mind. After that I sat for four or five years at my mother's and grandmother's side, silently observing while they knit, and by the time I was officially taught I already knew how. I pretty much just had to be handed the needles with the cast on already done.
I wish I had learned to knit at a young age. I did learn to crochet - and years can go by and I can still pick up yarn and a hook and crochet. (but I confess that I had to look up how to read the directions - the abbreviations, as in knitting are very easy to forget.)
Although I have so many different fibre related interests that I don't knit a lot at the moment, Gene, I am very happy that I learned while young. I have passed many a pleasant hour peacefully knitting. I have been knitting and reading knitting patterns for decades so only the most obscure knitting abbreviations have to be looked up.
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