Knitting - Your First Knitting Job

When you are just becoming involved in the world of knitting it can sometimes be frustrating as well. One of the best ways to avoid this is finding an easy knitting job to start with and taking that original piece of work and practicing with it. Complete the initial knitting job successfully and you are likely to be much less hesitant about the next one.

Now you may not want to use the very first knitting project you ever complete as the basis for experiments but pick one of your first knitted garments that you may not be especially happy with and use it for experiments and if you do mess up anything, it is generally much easier to laugh about it than it would be otherwise. Use an assortment of knitting yarns to practice by adding knitted embellishments, trims and other basic designs to your already completed knitting work.

Many of the specialty knitting yarns can be particularly difficult to work with. Additionally, many of the knitting yarns with very little elasticity can be extremely difficult to stitch with due to the added efforts keeping your tension even. If you are not quite ready to chance ruining one of your knitted garments that you have already completed, take up a smaller knitting job making something like knitted coasters, knitted dinner mats (which are actually very easy to make but more popular in the Asian countries than many other places) and other small knitting jobs and practice your techniques with the new yarns on these smaller projects.

Small knitting jobs like these do not require much yarn so your costs are kept down to a minimum. If you do make mistakes, many of them can be covered up or redone on these items as well. Small knitting jobs are also among the easiest ones to sell also so when your efforts do work out, you can have some nice little side items to sell the next time that you are at one of the knitting shows or craft fairs. Once you have mastered any of the knitting jobs that you have been having problems with on smaller items, you will be ready for the added expenses and the added work involved in the larger knitting job that you were waiting to do.

The idea is to keep any damage and any financial losses at a minimum while you practice. Mastering the subtleties involved with different knitting yarns can be challenging at first but there is no reason that it has to destroy something you have worked so hard for and it certainly should not be enough to prevent you from being able to enjoy knitting.

A little bit of practice can go a very long way in giving you the incentive that you need to take you to the next knitting job. Do not let a little disappointment keep you from getting where you want to be but rather, take a little extra time, take a couple of extra smaller knitting jobs and you will be ready for the big knitting job when it comes along.

Liz Raad is a small business coach and author of the exciting new E-book ‘Knitting For Profit – Your Step-by-Step Guide To Making Money From Knitting and Crochet’.

If you love knitting and crochet and have ever wished you could make money knitting then make sure you visit Liz’s popular blog (www.knittingforprofit.com/blog) where you will find tonnes of free information, practical advice and ideas about how to turn your knitting hobby into real cash.

Where can I buy a good knitting supplies ?

Hi I want to start knitting because I want it to start being a hobby or at least a test run. But I don’t know how to knit and I don’t have yarn or needles or anything and even worse I can’t even knit!!!Where can I buy cheap but good needles and yarn?Thanks, bye!

Answer
Many craft stores sell kits with instruction on how to knit, some yarn and a set of knitting needles. Michaels, Wal-Mart and Joann’s carry them or you can buy them from websites such as www.lionbrand.com.

There is a very good website called knittinghelp.com that has short videos you can replay that show the basics of many different knitting stitches.

Knitting takes some patience to get going but it is a very enjoyable pasttime. I’ve been knitting for more than 30 years.

You might want to also check out The Knitting Guild of America www.tkga.com