After buying all of my materials last week I was ready to start my project. The first step was reading the pattern. This was a pattern made for beginners which meant that most of the steps were written out in full sentences instead of in the code that most knitting patterns are written in.

The first few steps of the pattern I chose.

There were a few stitches in the pattern that I had never done before as well as some that I hadn’t done in a while. I started using the TikTok tutorials that the designer of this pattern had created but found that she moved a little bit too quickly for me to follow. I ended up watching some slower pace youtube tutorials instead. These tutorials really broke down the steps and were very easy to follow. One of the youtube tutorials I used is embedded below.

A screenshot of one of the designer’s TikTok tutorials.

Interestingly, I found out that I had been doing one of the basic stitches wrong in a previous project. I fixed the problem and I am interested to see if I will notice a difference in the final product after making this change.

One of the stitches was called knit front and back. This is a stitch that is meant to increase the number of stitches on your needles because you will do two knit stitches on a single loop. This will allow your shawl to take on the triangle shape.

Once I had figured out the pattern and the stitches I began knitting. This video shows my progress after about an hour and a half.

My progress after about an hour and a half.

In the beginning, my progress was very fast. The shawl grew quickly because the rows were very short. However, I added 2-4 stitches to each row which meant that each row got longer and took longer to knit.

The shawl started in the middle of the flat row where the string is poking out. I am adding more stitches along the curved side. You can see the wire that connects the needs threaded through the loops on that side.

Something that took some getting used to was working on circular needles. These are needles that are connected together by a wire. At first, they were a bit awkward because I was not used to them and the wires kept getting in the way. I eventually got the hang of them.