Knitting-Can you please pick up that stitch you just dropped

I’M A KNITTER, SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE!  After my very first knitting class, I feel confident in my statement above.  Now these sweaters for everyone might take a while to make and distribute, BUT I guarantee a sweater to everyone within 1-3 years. 

I had my very first knitting class tonight and it was a huge success. I was the youngest person in the class, shocker I know, but everyone was very friendly and supportive.  Although there was a lot of polite chatter and comradery between our group of strangers, talk did drift from knitting and yarn to other odd ball topics such as Russian airport security, Croatia and the U.S turning into a war torn, poverty stricken nation.  I kept my head down and my fingers moving during these bits of conversation, I wanted no parts of that. 

The first thing we learned was how to “cast-on” which is basically getting the yarn on the needle so that you can actually start knitting.  I became a pro at that because I did it wrong so many times, that all of my re-doing of the casting made me an expert.  I also became an expert on how to make a jumbled mess, how to drop a stitch and also how to mess things up so badly that the instructor actually says, “I don’t think I can fix this for you, let’s just start fresh.”  After all of that though, I focused and went slow, and before I knew it, I was knitting.  I walked into class, not knowing a thing about yarn, and left with my blood, sweat and tears in my hand in the form of a....a....a very tiny could be pot holder pictured above.  My homework for this week is to try and knit every day.  By my next class, I hope to have something that resembles a half normal size potholder to show off to everyone.