Wooden Knitting Needles

I learned to knit in a summer school class when I was a kid. My mother didn't knit, but she had an old pair of wooden needles lying around that she gave me to use. I learned only how to cast on and knit rows of garter stitch, but I had a lot of fun with it.

Later on I tried knitting with metal needles. The frustration of having stitches always falling off the slippery, metal needles at times when they weren't supposed to drove me to give up knitting every time. Trying yet again, I did finally succeed in making a whole top, despite the metal needles wanting to foil my plans.

Now that I'm using wooden needles on my current project, I realize how much more relaxing it is for me to use them compared to using metal ones. Some people like metal needles because they can knit faster with them, but I don't care about that, as you can see by how long it's taking me to make one pair of socks. ;)