another experiment

When I read a while back that Amisha could knit and read at the same time I was very impressed. Now the more knitting blogs I read it seems like that is the normal way to go about things and I decided I wanted to be able to do it too! 

So the other day, when I decided that I was fed up with crumbs in my ipod and that I should knit it a little case, it seemed like a good opportunity to try a 'knitting but not looking at the needles' experiment...

Well. It felt very odd at first, like I didn't trust myself to do it right at all without looking. But the more I forced myself to look away (at the wall in fact, my brain is not ready for reading quite yet...) the more I realised that I had known all along what to do, I just had to do it. I mean, it's only garter stitch, but it's a start!

Now this little ipod holder I knitted does look distinctly like the first thing I ever made when my mum taught me to knit when I was little; a little stripy case to hold my tooth fairy money; but I suppose that's quite apt considering I'm kind of learning all over again...