Things I Have Learned This Summer

Today is my last day of summer vacation. Tomorrow, at 7am, I will begin the school year anew. So, today, I thought I'd give you a list of things I've learned this summer.

• Cotton is not the fiber to use when trying out the Daisy Stitch for the first time.
• Double-knitting is like doing two projects at once.
• Double-knitting requires the stamina and willpower of doing two projects at once.
• Double-knitting, because of the reasons above, takes more time to knit than I think it does.
• Hats take less time to knit than I think they do.
• Stranded knitting is not as hard as it looks. 
• Stranded knitting is harder than it looks if you do it wrong. (I think this applies to pretty much any type of knitting.)
• A sock-in-progress that is kept in my purse is both productive and will keep me sane during long waits.
• Gauge is very important. (I realize that I should have known this before the summer, but I guess I needed to be reminded.)
• I knit tightly and I should almost always go up a needle size from what the pattern calls for.
• Summer feels very long in June, and then feels very, very short at the end of August. (I knew this already, but the fact that school starts tomorrow has driven this home.)

And some people say that we teens don't learn anything during the summer. :)

Until next time, happy knitting!