My first ever project was years ago. I tried to teach myself and I made a plain blue “scarf”. However, I had no idea about the different types of “stitch patterns” one could make. I’d knit a few rows, then purl a few rows, then knit a row… LOL After it started curling up and I had no idea why, I bound it off and gave it is now used as a scarf for a baby doll. :rofling: I’ll have to get a photo of it tomorrow to show everyone. Hehe
I knitted a pair of mittens in 1985. I was very proud of them, and at the same time couldn’t wear them… I guess I didn’t know anything about controlling tension, since they looked liked they were made in 2 distinctly different sizes! I could’ve worn either size comfortably, but not both at the same time in public! They were knitted from a pale green acrylic yarn (probably from KMart), and I don’t know what ever became of them. I don’t remember tossing them, and I know I didn’t frog them… I may actually find them stashed away in one of my boxes of stuff some day. If I do, there will definitely be a picture posted here.
-Melanie
I’ve officially begun my first project. I’m about 1/4 of the way through a washcloth. My kids have asked me to make them scarves for this winter already (been knitting like two weeks!)
I started a blob in some kind of green acrylic first, to learn t cast on and do the knit stitch. I abandoned it for “covered bridge red” Homespun and make a garter stitch scarf, which I still love (I’ve got a soft spot for it! and it’s cute as an accessory since it’s narrow, which was its intended purpose). I’ve since gone against Homespun.
I’m sorry to say that I wasn’t taking pictures of my knitting when I first began to knit (2 years ago) so I have no photo. Like many others, my 1st project was the ever popular garter st. scarf!
My first project (last year) was a grater stitch scarf for my dd … I used a worsted weight cotton. Followed closly by a hat to match the scarf. :cheering:
My first project was a scarf in garterstitch. Unfortunately I don’t have a picture of it and I don’t have it anymore, so I can’t make one. It was made of cotton and nice and warm and really long.
My first project was a hat, knit flat, from a kiddies teach you how to knit book.
After that came a pair of mittens for my youngest, (pattern from the Lion Brand site - done in homespun) then socks and three cabled bags.
I also squeezed in a few toddler-sized sweaters too, in-between those, though I am the world’s worst finisher - a major procrastinator!! :oops:
I’ve never knitted a scarf though I did crochet a pretty skinny one which I 
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My first project was a ribbed scarf that I made last year with some practice yarn I bought to teach myself to knit…
What a fun thread. 
I learned to knit about 1-1/2 years ago when I picked up Melanie Falick’s Kids Knitting to teach my kids to knit. It’s probably no surprise to anyone that I’m the one who got hooked, and the kids lost interest. :lol:
As embarrasssing as they are, here are my first two projects:
My first project that I finished was a pair of preemie booties. I started on a baby blanket. It is all done with knit stitch because I didn’t know how to do the purl stitch.
Oh, I LOVE that bear. I think that is an increadably (forgive the spelling) brave first project.
Oh I had knit lots of squares to play first, and let me add that it’s not as complicated as it might seem. All garter stitch – two sides – sew 'em together. Piece of cake. 
Sewing!!! :shock: :shock:
(I can just barely sew buttons back on when they fall off things. That’s the sum total of my sewing ability.)
My first project was a bag for my knitting!
My first project was supposed to be a knit chenelle (sp) scarf from the Teach Yourself to Knit book that I had. I got about 30 rows into it and got bored, so I bought yarn to make ds a basketweave afghan from the same booklet. When I was about 1/2-way through with that I got bored again (notice a trend :roflhard: ) so I started a lace afghan for our newborn neice. When it was completed I finished ds’s afghan and then ripped out the scarf.
This was my first project, knit in Microspun. Nevernevernevernever again:
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[color=blue][/color]My first project in the 11th grade was a pair of slippers, followed by a cable cardigan the color of lime sherbert. when I went off to college ai took it with me-still unfinished and eventually threw it away-still unfinished. NO more knitting until my daughter became pregnant. I then took a class based on Elizabeth Zimmerman’s cardigan pattern, didn’t like the result, and ripped it all out to make an afghan, which I dearly love. From then on I was hooked. But what an addiction! Much better than what I see in court! :happydance:
This is a fun thread. My first finished project was a garter stitch. I was so proud of it, you’d have thought I was a knitting genious. :roflhard: