Excuse me while I toot my own horn a bit, because I’m feeling pretty darn smart right at the moment.  Look what I did over the weekend:

Okay, so it’s only ribbing.  But it’s ribbing with purty colors.  Thanks to Deb’s class at The Neighborhood Knit Shop, I’m learning to do fair isle!  I’m really excited because that’s one of the goals I’d set for myself this year.

I’m typically a “thrower”, as were the two other people in my class.  Deb taught us to knit Continental style as well, so that we can carry one color on our right hand (English/throwing-style) and the other color in our left hand (Continental/picking-style).  It was extremely awkward at first, but once I got through the ribbing, I had the rhythm down.  After it “clicks”, the idea that you’re knitting with both hands really makes you feel smart too.

The bit in the picture above is where we were supposed to get to for our homework this week.  We’re going to get into the rest of the hat pattern next Saturday.  It’s an adorable pattern that Deb designed.  It has a row of tulips and a row of hearts.  I’m really itching to keep knitting on it because it’s really, really fun.  But I’m going to be a good girl and wait so that I don’t screw it up.  I just hope mine fits!  (I have a fat head big brain.)  Heh.