knitting and purling

so a lady in my mom's group is a master knitter.  she dyes her own yarn and everything.  inspired, i decided to try knitting.  it's a great way to work the mind and have a sense of accomplishment, important for a stay at home mom.  interested?  here's a couple of tips.

no need to sign up for knitting lessons.  www.knittinghelp.com will get you started.  it has all the videos one would need to get started.  no user accounts, no passwords.  a great resource.

www.ravelry.com is a knitting and crocheting community that is immensely popular.  when you sign up for a user account, you will have to wait for a ravelry invite.  mine took about 2 weeks.  it's a real start up website where the owners only add so many users at a time.  it's like christmas day when you get your ravelry invite.

you can search for patterns and read other knitter comments about the pattern.  you can log your stash of your yarn and needles.  you can favorite other patterns and  display your projects.  i'm still learning all the features, but it's quite impressive.

my current project is a sunhat using circular needles for my 3 year old daughter .  so far i've started it 3 times, but that's part of learning.  hope to post a picture soon of my finished project.  here's what i hope mine will somewhat look like.
http://www.adorabubbleknits.com/pages/sunhat.php