knitting
So, after 30 or so years of knitting on and off, I've just now realized that I knit funny.
See, there's 2 general methods for knitting. One of which my mom does. She knits English, or throw. And I would watch her, but it seemed so horribly inefficient, as you have to take the right hand off the needle, throw the yarn over the right needle, then put your right hand back on the needle and move it around. Your left hand just sorta sat there looking dopey.
So, I took her method and made it more efficient. The right hand needle still does most if not all of the moving. And the left hand does the throw (which, it turns out, is much shorter in terms of movement) of the yarn.
Now, the other generally accepted method for knitting is continental, or picking. And, I've always assumed my variation on mom's style was "continental". But it wasn't really "picking", and that second name made me go "hrm..." So, off to YouTube. Where there are a plethora of videos on "how to knit"
It appears that I have cobbled together what's known as Norwegian knitting style, but my purl is not the way the Norwegian video does it.
At any rate, I've been practicing knitting continental now. And it appears to have tightened up my knitting even further, which I honestly didn't think was possible.
See, there's 2 general methods for knitting. One of which my mom does. She knits English, or throw. And I would watch her, but it seemed so horribly inefficient, as you have to take the right hand off the needle, throw the yarn over the right needle, then put your right hand back on the needle and move it around. Your left hand just sorta sat there looking dopey.
So, I took her method and made it more efficient. The right hand needle still does most if not all of the moving. And the left hand does the throw (which, it turns out, is much shorter in terms of movement) of the yarn.
Now, the other generally accepted method for knitting is continental, or picking. And, I've always assumed my variation on mom's style was "continental". But it wasn't really "picking", and that second name made me go "hrm..." So, off to YouTube. Where there are a plethora of videos on "how to knit"
It appears that I have cobbled together what's known as Norwegian knitting style, but my purl is not the way the Norwegian video does it.
At any rate, I've been practicing knitting continental now. And it appears to have tightened up my knitting even further, which I honestly didn't think was possible.