I began by casting the yarn on the needles, as I did so the yarn started literally falling apart and breaking into pieces. So after a trip back to the yarn store to replace the defected yarn, I was back on track. I am not used to working with four strands of yarn, and mix that with the needles made for a giant, I faced some difficulty. I restarted about 7 times because it just wasn't looking right. Finally I decided to just keep going and maybe it would look better as I went along, and it did! Finally, I got the yarn ball rolling. I had to learn how to purl stitch by watching YouTube videos as I went along. Once I got into a rhythm it was just as easy as knitting a scarf.
A few things went wrong, I missed a stitch one time and it got lost and a little messed up but since the yarn is so thick and I am using four strands of it, it's barely noticeable. Another mistake was with the pattern of the stitches. The pattern goes knit one row, purl one row, then knit one row and so on. About halfway through the first ball of yarn I knitted two rows after another since I lost track of the count. I decided to make it part of the pattern and switch it up every so often to make it look like it's supposed to be like that.
I decided to call it a night once I ran out on my first set of yarn, tomorrow I will knit in the four new yarn balls and keep working on my afghan as I watch the Superbowl!
Here are some pictures of my progress so far:
One side of the blanket
Further along, the opposite side
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