My intentions
As I mentioned in my first post. Here I'd like to document my knitting adventures. I've started to knit very recently and I think that my experience may be of use to others in a similar situation.
Of course, if you want good advise, you should get it from someone more experienced. On the other hand, my blog will have a different perspective to offer. Something that someone with more experience will not care about or even know about.
For starters, there is a jungle of resources on the internet. If you're learning from the web, instead of from a friend or paid classes, like I did, you're in a very different situation than the more experienced knitters out-there, who didn't learn to knit this way.
If you'll be using the internet to learn, you'll probably have the same problem I have all the time, specially when I'm trying to learn something new:
I keep wasting hours of my life stupidly surfing the web with the well known result of getting completely brain frozen by the sheer overwhelming amount of information. The result is that, instead of feeling oh-so-happy with all the great stuff modern life has to offer, I miss the good-old-times when there was one book, good or bad, and that's how you learned.
Talking about books, mind you!, it's not just the internet that provides overwhelming choice. There is also the wonderful modern publishing industry. Poor trees!!! So much paper wasted, let us hope mostly recycled... Tons and tons of books are constantly published on every subject you can think of and they all promise the same thing: to be the best book on the market on their category. Despite the promise, the quality of most of them is usually poor and it is hard to come by the information on which ones are worth anything. There are reviews, like the ones Amazon and Goodreads have to offer, but mysteriously enough they tend to be useless when trying to make a choice, because good and bad books have both (not respectively) good and bad reviews in very similar proportions. This is usually because most reviews are written by people who've just bought the book and do not own any other book on the same subject (I always wonder why do they feel qualified to write reviews). Of course, at least up to a point, there is the additional problem of personality and taste. The best book to someone may be the worst, most useless book to someone else. Oh boy! What to do?
So the intention of this blog is to try to navigate through all these choices and document my experience, hoping that putting my thoughts in order in this way I'll save myself some time in the process.
Of course, if you want good advise, you should get it from someone more experienced. On the other hand, my blog will have a different perspective to offer. Something that someone with more experience will not care about or even know about.
For starters, there is a jungle of resources on the internet. If you're learning from the web, instead of from a friend or paid classes, like I did, you're in a very different situation than the more experienced knitters out-there, who didn't learn to knit this way.
If you'll be using the internet to learn, you'll probably have the same problem I have all the time, specially when I'm trying to learn something new:
I keep wasting hours of my life stupidly surfing the web with the well known result of getting completely brain frozen by the sheer overwhelming amount of information. The result is that, instead of feeling oh-so-happy with all the great stuff modern life has to offer, I miss the good-old-times when there was one book, good or bad, and that's how you learned.
Talking about books, mind you!, it's not just the internet that provides overwhelming choice. There is also the wonderful modern publishing industry. Poor trees!!! So much paper wasted, let us hope mostly recycled... Tons and tons of books are constantly published on every subject you can think of and they all promise the same thing: to be the best book on the market on their category. Despite the promise, the quality of most of them is usually poor and it is hard to come by the information on which ones are worth anything. There are reviews, like the ones Amazon and Goodreads have to offer, but mysteriously enough they tend to be useless when trying to make a choice, because good and bad books have both (not respectively) good and bad reviews in very similar proportions. This is usually because most reviews are written by people who've just bought the book and do not own any other book on the same subject (I always wonder why do they feel qualified to write reviews). Of course, at least up to a point, there is the additional problem of personality and taste. The best book to someone may be the worst, most useless book to someone else. Oh boy! What to do?
So the intention of this blog is to try to navigate through all these choices and document my experience, hoping that putting my thoughts in order in this way I'll save myself some time in the process.
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