For my first honors experience, I explored learning different patterns and techniques of knitting and crocheting.  The first part of the project would be expanding my knowledge of knitting techniques.  I decided that I would learn 5 new knitting patterns and make a scarf utilizing each one, making each newly learned pattern more complex than the last.  I started with a fairly simple pattern and ended with one of the more complicated techniques called cabling.  I then learned how to knit in-the-round with circular needles to knit a hat.  The second part of the project was learning how to crochet.  I learned two of the base patterns of crochet, and then a pattern that branched from one of the base ones.  It didn’t go quite as I planned, as I did the last pattern incorrectly and got a pattern that was different than what was intended.  Even though it didn’t turn out looking the way I wanted, I liked the pattern I ended up with better than what I intended to make it.