Ribbed for my pleasure.

As I have mentioned numerous times before, purling has been a huge problem for me. This is mostly because I am teaching myself to knit from a book and the directions for purling made no sense to me what-so-ever. So I have just been knitting my scarf in knit stitch and I have been happy. Except for that little voice in the back of my head that kept telling me I was not a real knitter because I can't purl.

So last knit I opened my copy of Stitch n Bitch, flipped to the purl section, and it just looked so easy. I actually thought to myself, "Dumbass, this doesn't look hard". So I picked up the new needles CAP sent me grabbed my cheap practice yarn.......and did it on the first try! Ya'll I knit and purled a stockinette swatch. It was one of the proudest moments in my life.

But oh no I didn't stop there. Mostly because the swatch kept curling up. So I read a little further ahead in Stitch n Bitch and learned that to stop the curling I must learn to rib. So I started a new swatch with 2x2 ribbing.

Ya'll. They are right. Ribbing is for her pleasure. If I thought that purling made me happy you should have seen the look of complete satisfaction on my face when I was done ribbing.