Keep going...you'll be breezing away in no time!So, I've been doing some work in my "down time" (not much of it in the summer!) but I was really doing fine. I was casting on like I was born to do it, and practiced several times. I had a hard time catching onto a knit stitch but once I got it, it clicked. (To quote someone else who was attempting this, "You'll never know the joy I felt when I did my first stitch, or how loudly I screamed when it promptly fell off the needle. )
Now, today, I did a little practice swatch and somehow, the last two rows, when I was done, kind of went "sprong" and I was left with a small rectangular piece with a weird banana-shaped hunk of yarn on the bottom corner. I had used a long tail cast on method, so I left the tail, and created a really nice little hand held "cat wand". Good news is, the cats (and dog) love it!
I'm excited for when I have more down time this fall, I'm really enjoying it and the relaxation it gives me is VERY much enjoyed.