growing pains

Leah is a fairly adventurous knitter, often just trying things on her own and seeing what happens. She recently saw the Faberge neckwarmer pattern and was curious about the stitch pattern and learning how to place beads onto knitting with a crochet hook. I've never done either of those things and was busy finishing up Jesse's sweater(!), so she toodled off on her own to give it a try.

Close, but not quite right, so we'll aim to sit down later today, rip back, and see if we can figure it out together. I'm not sure if the stitch repeat is being done wrong or the beads aren't the right size, or a combination of the two, but I know we'll both learn something along the way. And it's nice to know we can always put a call out to the blogosphere, Ravelry, the knitters we'll be with tonight, and/or the designer of this neckwarmer if we need a hand!