Learning to Knit…On the Net

This past summer I decided to learn how to knit. Little did I know how easy this would be with the Internet. People always say there is endless information out there, yet all we do is watch comical YouTube videos of random acts. However, I decided to stray away from the YouTube videos and learn something new.

I found a few websites that not only show really cool patterns, but step by step instructions on how to create said patterns. 
After seeing all the jargon used for knitters, I was scared initially. But hey, this website that explained all that to me as well. 
I wonder if learning skills like this will take the place of traditions passed through families. So many family tradition-type skills are now posted on the web. It seems like they may have skipped a generation or two, but now some of us want to get back to learning those skills our grandmothers or great- grandmothers had. I think the “craft” movement of the last few years may have helped contribute to that.

Just one of several different patterns I learned to do