Inquiry Project Process

My Inquiry Project is to try to learn a new pattern to knit with rather than a normal knit stitch. I wanted to use this Inquiry Project as a means to be able to explore and reconnect with a new hobby. I chose knitting a scarf as my project because I wanted to make a detailed oriented project that would be relaxing while keeping my mind focused, similar to meditation. Whenever I had free time, I would be able to work on being productive instead of feeling guilty or uncomfortable wasting time re-watching a movie or TV show. I decide to name my project: Sometimes Happiness is a Bumbleberry Pie.

Here’s the video where I learned the basket stitch

Process of A Basket Full of Happiness

Week 3

I finally finished my scarf project. It took a lot of time but I’m satisfied to say that I feel accomplished from this achievement. Although for me, knitting this scarf felt like a rhythm at one point but it was still very time consuming. However, I found this to be an enjoyable hobby and will most likely be pursuing future knitting (or possibly crocheting) projects as a pastime.

Week 2

The second week continued working on knitting my basket stitch pattern. However, I started rushing at one point and ended up messing up twice. My first mess-up was when I completely skipped a column to knit and it ended up unravelling down 3 rows. I had to go back and redo all of the three rows again because the missed stitch was not salvageable. My second mess-up was when I accidentally knitted my purls at one point instead of purling my purls according to the video which left an awkward blank space in my scarf. I had to unravel my stitches to be able to fix the noticeable gaps.

Week 1

The first week I simply rewatched the YouTube tutorial a couple of times so I wouldn’t feel the need to go back and watch it again. Then, I started to pick out what yarn I wanted and started working on the first couple of rows. I felt confused on where I had to purl or knit, so I had the rewatch the video anyways. The name of the yarn was called Bumbleberry, which was also the name of a type of pie. I found it ironic since the stitch I was using to create my scarf was similar to the cover shell of a pie. At one point, I realized I knitted too many rows where I should’ve purled, so I was set back to near the beginning of my project. I made it my goal for this week to at least be able to finish one section of color.