So I thought I'd pick up knitting.  I puttered around some websites and saw some things that looked pretty neat.  So I thought to myself, well if I'm patient, and have extra time, no reason I can't knit myself a fancy little cardigan, right?  Wrong, oh so very wrong!  I spent about 3 hours looking at diagrams for stitches on About.com (lots of info there!) and then, once I'd figured out how to start it, I went ahead.  I knitted for a couple hours (slowly and painfully) and discovered something called "tension"  Apparently mine varies because my stitches were all either loose and floppy, or these tight little things that I had a hard time poking my needle through, so my edge looked reeeeally weird.  I abandoned it completely and started again.  Same thing.  So I decided to knit a scarf, but it sure doesn't look very thick and warm.  One day I'll figure it out and, in the meantime, much applause to those of you who have mastered it!