After racking my brain for a suitable Technique Tuesday, I decided to revisit a post I made very early in this blog. It was this post about knitting faster and potentially learning to continental knit. It was during my first few posts and I ran it at the same time as the 5th Annual Knit & Crochet Blog Week hosted by Eskimimi Makes ( totally cool, fun project that I’m so glad I participated in). Long post short, I was thinking about learning to knit continental so that I could knit faster. I received from sage advice from Kaiya at Winterlime Knits and that was to simply spend time knitting instead of browsing Ravelry & blogs wishing I could knit faster so I could cast on all the beautiful projects I was seeing.
I think it’s the best advice I’ve received ever when it comes to knitting. Anytime I think I want to cast on something more or want to learn something new or wish I had more handknit things, I remember to just sit down and spend time knitting 🙂
Since doing this, I have finished a couple of awesome projects and made some progress on others like my Follow Your Arrow shawl that is holding onto my size 6 32″ for dear life 🙂
Just wanted to share a short post and some encouraging words that have done me good 🙂
v’s & bumps,
Jenna
hardknitlife 
i so agree! people are always commenting on how fast i knit—–it’s just that i knit ALL THE TIME!!! (and all that practice does increase the speed just a wee bit!!!!)
Very true! It’s amazing what devoting time to a hobby will accomplish 🙂
That is beautiful.
Thank you!!
Wow, I’m flattered. I would hardly call it sage advice, especially as I’m scarcely following it myself now! I’m glad that you’ve benefited by it though!
🙂 Everything happens in phases. Knitting time will come back around!
I too need to spend time learning to knit continental, but as soon as I finish one project I want to start another!
Knitting seems to work that way 🙂 As soon as I come across a technique I’d like to learn, I have a hard time following through since there are so many other things I want to cast on for!