New Hobby
I have started to knit again. I was taught to knit in primary school. I remember being the worst knitter in my class. I just couldn’t get the wool round the needles correctly. My teacher realised that my problem could be solved by teaching me to knit left-handed.
Left-handed knitting does make it difficult for me to learn new techniques. I find it really hard to follow the instructions. I also find watching other people knit confusing. I now get Marty to translate confusing knitting instructions for me. It should be a simple matter for me to reverse the instructions but you only have to mention left and right and I’m bewildered.
Knitting Sample
May 30th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Have you looked at knittinghelp.com? She has videos for English and Continental styles, which may help.
May 30th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I’ll take a look. I discovered recently that I didn’t yarn over properly. I’ve fixed that now but I imagine that something new will come along that I’ll mess up!
It is more fun that I remembered it being. And now I want to go back to that wool shop in Pittsburgh as I remember the selection being great 🙂
May 30th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
“yarn over”!
Wow – and I thought the computing jargon was bad 🙂
May 31st, 2009 at 1:50 am
“Yarn over” or “yo” is a very simple instruction. I must admit to being stumped at first by “sl2-k1-p2sso”. But it all makes sense now…