I am well aware this is a strange question.

[jackandahat]

I learned to knit as a kid, so I don't remember that much about it. Now I'm writing a character who has suddenly decided he's going to learn to knit. So. Assuming a fairly intelligent adult who does stuff with his hands (drawing, sewing), with the usual book/internet resources - how long would it take someone to learn to knit things? How long before being able to do a scarf you could wear in public, or learn to knit in the round and start on socks?

I know it's going to vary hugely from person to person, but I'm curious about guesstimates.

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[liseuse]

One of my co-workers learned to knit a couple of months ago so that she had something to do in front of the television. She'd never knitted before, but she picked the basics up very quickly. She's at the wearable scarf stage now, and starting to think about learning how to knit in the round. So, for basics a couple of months - but this is knitting as an evening thing, and thus she isn't knitting all the time or, for some bits of time, particularly frequently.

I'm basing this also in part on another co-worker who picked up knitting as a new hobby, at about the same time, but is finding it harder because she learned to crochet as a child and thus is having trouble ridding herself of muscle memory. She's finding it a harder slog.