Milo ineptness - were you this bad first time?

[Middy]

Come on, make me feel better!

I've never knitted on circulars before, and actually I've never knitted anything beyond a pair of booties and a few hats, but I thought this would be easier

It seems I am totally incapable of multitasking when it comes to knitting. Just making fire engine noises this afternoon for Caleb's game was enough to totally mare it up and have to start again - which I've done 3 times now! I was nearly done with the top bit just now, and then I realised my stitch count was out

I.will.finish.this.if.it.kills.me... which it may well do!

[Middy]

Right. Just me then.

[Happi]

nah

I just dpnt fuss too much if the counts are slightly out.

fidget fudget and pray a bit and it will fit

[sjl]

You're doing better than me - you were brave enough to start - that deserves

[mamacas]

you will get there.

when i started knitting 2 years ago i found knitting patterns a bit like trying to read the matrix

but now its easy and when i look back at my first few knitted items i as they are all wonky, gauge is off, and i used to knit everything to short

but now i get complerments

[Laura]

Ha sounds like my first attempt
Ill find a pic to show how bad it was!

[Khai]

There are probably easier patterns to practice knitting in the round on.

[Mazz]

My first milo, I picked up a pair of needles thinking 'they're not quite the same size but how much difference could it make, really?'

I was knitting a 1 year old size.

I ended up halfway through looking at a milo that would fit a six year old.

I frogged it after a couple of months and haven't made anything bigger than the 3 month since, I'm too traumatised

[Plingie]

I redid my first one SO many times but it is worth it. Soon it just clicks

[karmiec]

I found hte beginign of the milo a bit of a pain with the knit and purl rows with increases and markers.... BUT once you get down to the body section it is just around and around and around

[LabRat]

Mum nearly did her head in starting me off on my first milo, and she's been knitting forever. After re-writing the instructions (because somehow Tikki takes a simple knitting step and turns it into a page of instructions)and using double-pointed needles to do the yoke (like sock knitting) so you don't have to do all the counting and moving of stitch markers it now knits fairly straight-forward. I think if I had been attempting it myself for the first time it would have been the end of my knitting career!!

[Claire]

I didn't find it that easy .. and I've been knitting along time and done a lot in the round.
I don't find her patterns terribly easy to read. Cute though.

[Plingie]

Think of it like this:

Make sure you cast on the right amount of stitches for a start. Now recount them to make sure When you join in the round, make sure it's not twisted place a starting marker. Pearl one round.

Then use safety pins as markers because then you can just count stitches, place marker, count more then place marker rather than remembering to place while knitting. (remember you place them on the needle not the yarn or anything).

Double check to make sure you have the right amount of stitches between each marker.

Now is the easy bit! No more counting OK so the rows go knit one row, purl the next. Every pearl row is just plain ol purl. Every knit row you're going to increase before and after each marker. SO just keep on knitting and when you come to a marker, knit front and back, slip the marker and then knit front and back again in the next stitch.

[onabear]

Once you get past the neck it is easy I always try and do the neck in one go as my first few have the added design feature of a reversed row from when I put it down, it has kinda become my trademark lol

[Wicked Knits]

My first, I must have started it sooo many times, (was my first actual project) really pissed me off, but it looked great at the end!