I am a beginner knitter. (Again)
As a kid, I watched my mum and her mum knit all kinds of things. I don't remember having a sweater that wasn't knitted by my mum. She also knitted all my dads sweaters.
You would think knitting would come naturally to me but it never has.
Mum tried several time to teach me. I thought being left handed was part of the problem.
Over the years I have tried many times to get the hang of knitting. Many of my friends have been prolific knitters and all have tried to teach me, I have made some basic things that often look like something a child might make!
About 20 years ago I paid good money to have knitting lessons. I made myself a very basic sweater. It is probably the only thing that has turned out 'Not too bad'

When I got hooked on hand spinning a couple of years ago, I knew it was time to start the knitting quest again.
With my own yarn that I had sorted, carded, spun and dyed from a raw fleece, I started knitting my self a vest.
The back was all but completed when I realized it was about 2 sizes too small. I adjusted the pattern and started again. After much perseverance and several restarts the vest was finished.
It had taken me a year and a half to complete it and it was too big!!!!
I have started again and the back is done. I am now on the first front panel and I am hopeful this will become the finished article, If not it will be undone yet again because I WILL complete this project and will wear it with pride!
Wish me luck...