it's contageous

**Warning: lots of "knitter-ese" contained in the following post! Basically, Hazel is learning to knit, if the rest sounds like mumbo-jumbo ;)

With all the knitting I've been doing, Hazel decided she'd have a go at it. I got out my biggest needles and a remnant of the chunkiest yarn I had around, and taught her how to cast on 10 stitches. She did it twice for practice and was ready to call it quits for one day. She surprised the heck out of me the next morning when she remembered how to do it with hardly any help at all, so I taught her how to do the knit stitch. The first row or two were quite loose and crazy, and we had to figure out a problem with her stitches being twisted funny (I knit continental style, which was too intimidating for her, so she is knitting english style and I started her out throwing her yarn in the wrong direction around her needle tip- whoops!) Once we got that figured out, she has been burning the yarn up! She used up the first little pice I gave her in no time, and I tied on a longer piece of the same yarn. I have one short remnant left after that, so we will see how long her finished item will be. We are hoping for some length of scarf, but not sure if it will make it that far.

She is getting her stitches nice and straight now, and has figured out a fairly even (albeit still somewhat loose) guage. She is proud of her new skill and keeps proclaiming, "I LOVE knitting!!"