Knitting

This week in class we did knitting, i have previously done a small amount of knitting but i couldn't really remember much of it. To cast on i used a slip knot and then the thumb cast on as this is the one i'm most comfortable with, once i had cast on 20 stitches i was supposed to do 20 rows of garter stitch but unfortunately i didn't have time to finish it, on row three i managed to pick up an extra stitch so my tutor showed me how to get rid of it.

Later i did a purl stitch for 5 rows and then did a stocking stitch which is done by doing alternate rows of knit and purl stitches, i struggled quite a bit with this one and managed to pick up three extra stitches along the way which my tutor again helped remove. 

today i did three pieces my self one in purple that is just a garter stitch and a pink which goes from stocking to garter and back to stocking and then a final pink that i tried to do three knit rows followed by 3 purl rows and this continues for a while. 
I quite enjoyed doing these in my own time but still got a little confused at times. 
I used a 7.5 mm needle for the ones i did at home and a 1cm needle for the one i did in college.