it ain't pretty...but it's progress...

Ok, so I've progressed from casting-on to actually "knitting", not to be confused w/ purling which is a whole different ballgame and next on the list. Incidentally, all the cast-ons that I worked on (all 3) involved only 1 needle. Nice way to start and totally unintentional. They just happened to be the first ones on the page. There are actually many, many more options. But learning them is beyond the scope of my assignment...Had I started in January - maybe. But, truth be told, I might could get into this...Noooo, not cuz I'm old! :P I think it's my sliiiiiiight OCD tendency (as yet un clinically diagnosed ;) )that both likes it and will be driven crazy by it... but I digress. Ummm... Yeah, so I've now tried going from the cast-on to actually knitting a couple of rows... It ain't pretty, but it's progress nonetheless. I also know that currently my technique is not such that I need to be trying this on the train yet unless I have a seat to myself. It's all fun and games til someone loses an eye... Tho...I could "borrow" my kid's shorter needles... hmmm.... Yeah, clearly I didn't do enough research before hand. But hey, what's life if not a trial and error process? Did I have ANY clue what a beginning knitter should look for in needles? Nope. But it's all good.  Anyway, working on knitting for another day or two. Then purling perhaps. Then I need to get back to that glossary so I know what comes next and how to read a pattern and what not so I can try to make something. While I do think there's TONS to actually learn, I'm not trying for all of it at the moment. For now - casting-on, knitting, purling, casting-off, terminology, reading a pattern and then making something. Although the "making something" doesn't actually have to come last in the process. Once I can cast-on, knit & cast-off, I could make something. But I wanna know the rest anyway. Ok, going to have at it a li'l more. I do have some pics of today's efforts that I'll upload tomorrow... Fun times.