Don't you have to have double-ended needles or circular needles to knit in the round? I've only got normal ones that I think my grandma gave me. I do rather want to get circulars though. Because I vaguely want to produce a baby blanket for a friend (who isn't pregnant and isn't trying but will in the indefinite future, presumably in several years when her husband isn't a grad student anymore and they have more money. If I start soon, it might be done by the time they have a kid! :P) and large things don't fit very well on normal needles.
I can see that, because I like crocheting round things better than flat things. The texture's nicer too, I feel. Which resulted in my doing ever row of the flaps of my Jayne hat individually, so they wouldn't be a sudden texture change, so I had to tie off and cut the yarn at both ends of every row and weave in all the dozens of ends and gods it was tedious.
I don't know about books! Have you joined Ravelry? There's an excellent pattern search function (knit and crochet both), and lots of the ones indexed are free, and there are tools for keeping track of your yarn stash, which would probably be easier to use starting when it's relatively small. (I haven't updated mine in quite a while and I don't think I ever finished cataloging it.)
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Date: 2011-07-30 01:40 am (UTC)I can see that, because I like crocheting round things better than flat things. The texture's nicer too, I feel. Which resulted in my doing ever row of the flaps of my Jayne hat individually, so they wouldn't be a sudden texture change, so I had to tie off and cut the yarn at both ends of every row and weave in all the dozens of ends and gods it was tedious.
I don't know about books! Have you joined Ravelry? There's an excellent pattern search function (knit and crochet both), and lots of the ones indexed are free, and there are tools for keeping track of your yarn stash, which would probably be easier to use starting when it's relatively small. (I haven't updated mine in quite a while and I don't think I ever finished cataloging it.)