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Comment on Wrong way knitters

Awesome Mom — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:44:25 GMT

Great post!

My sister taught me to knit (barely as she was not a very patient teacher) through the back loop. I was happy and knitting away until I knit in front of other knitters. They never said that I was wrong but they would come over and exclaim over my knitting style which made me very self conscious.

Finally I got over it and became bold in my knitting, moving on from square projects to more complicated stuff. I retaught myself to knit continental style so that I could knit in the round with out twisting my stitches.

I taught a few knitting classes at my church and made sure that they knew that as long as they got the results they wanted there was no one judging them on their form.

Comment on Wrong way knitters

Spangle — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:49:21 GMT

I've only recently learned to knit (after years of hopeless trying) and I thought tbl was a legitimate stitch? I've made some interesting items using patterns incorporating tbl. Surely knitting is only 'wrong' if the whole thing self-destructs?! Anything my sister knits ends up triangular because somehow she picks up stitches with gleeful abandon!

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Charlene — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:36:51 GMT

What a delightful story. Thanks for sharing. You made a long insomniac night much brighter and made me laugh.

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Jeannette — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:45:07 GMT

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Comment on Wrong way knitters

Becca — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:12:41 GMT

So, up until a couple months ago, I've done ALL my knitting tbl. all of it. I think I first learned I was "doing it wrong" a while before that, but I didn't mind. I just had to remember that k2tog was "their way" and ssk was "my way" when doing laceworks and such. Unfortunately, I did a cashmere shirt recently, and it became very obvious that my knits were twisted and my purls wern't, and I was sad. But we live and learn and I don't do everything tbl anymore, but it was actually kind of fun knowing I was knitting "the wrong way"... I was a rebel :-D

Comment on This is the sock that never ends

Donna B — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:02:21 GMT

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Comment on This is the sock that never ends

Theresa Elaine — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:26:51 GMT

You should try the TECHknitter way. It's the only thing that worked for me. It really bugged me that I couldn't do it, and so I kept trying. I always would think I understood it perfectly this time, and then I would botch it. Three needle bind off is great though, as long as you can get the sock turned inside out!

Comment on This is the sock that never ends

Theresa Elaine — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:23:13 GMT

I showed my 'finished' sock to Gabrielle while moaning about its ugly toes. Now, Gabrielle doesn't have a perfectionist bone in her body. She said "Normally I would say something comforting, like 'It's not as bad as all that', but those are really ugly." I messed them up worse than I ever have! So I am redoing them. So glad to know that I can do it right this time, though.

Comment on This is the sock that never ends

Tajhia — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:47:27 GMT

I have never managed kitchener stitch either - I just can't get my head round it.

But I didn't let that put me of knitting socks.... I either just bodged the toe as best as I can, or I sort of turned it all inside out and did a 3 needle bind-off instead...

no-one I have ever knitted socks for has ever complained about my toes