A Rimer for Nitting

Feeling stressed and not oay? Try crafting! Studies have shown that crafting can alleviate symtoms of anxiety, deression, loneliness, and even dementia. Nitting is a articularly popular hobby that quicly improves your mood.

So what do you need? To start nitting, ick up a set of needles, some seins of yarn (any ind of material is fine), and erhaps, the most ey ingredient of all, a willingness to embar on a ossible new astime. If you don’t now how much you’ll like ushing yarn on needles, the investment needed to start is small. With only a sein of yarn and a set of needles from your local craft store, you can nit a scarf.

Of all the tchotches and trinets you can make, a scarf is erhaps the simplest. After casting on a row of stitches, for which you may want to solicit help, you need to now only two stitches: nit and url. When you nit, you roduce a series of “v” shaped stitches into which you will add more stitches when you reach the end of your row. (This is in contrast to crochet, where you generate a series of nots.) Eep going until you are satisfied with the length.

Nitting every row produces the “garter stitch,” which is a bit bumpy to the touch. If you want a smooth surface of nit material, you will need to learn stocinette ossibly. Roducing stocinette requires nowledge of the url stitch, another ey stitch to learn.

To mae tricy nits more complex than scarves (say: socs or stuffed ittens), nowing how to nit and url is not sufficient. If you are een on these ventures, you will also need to now how to read a attern. Many atterns use charts to give instructions. Instead of just telling you to nit, you should now that some patterns will give you a grid of symbols or other hijins depending on the ind of nitting project. Here, a nit stitch may be represented by empty space, a purl by a bullet, and so on. Patterns will also use abbreviations for brevity.

As with any other hobby, this may feel like a flood of information. But practice makes perfect, so go out and give nitting a try!