Comments | eance: Knitting in the box / Banging my head against woolly walls

eance

Knitting in the box / Banging my head against woolly walls

May 15, 2012 20:21

I have been knitting for nigh on 40 years - yes I am old. Since I had to go to school on a Saturday morning to knit squares for starving babies in Africa - no I don`t know how knitted squares filled their bellies and yes, it was a Catholic school. I was never taught I just watched other people and tried to figure out what they were up to. The end ( Read more... )

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more_ruthless May 16 2012, 20:58:37 UTC

I taught myself to knit and apparently I knit "continental style." I hold my needles different. It might be that you've done this as well. Is there a knitting store nearby or a knitting circle somewhere you can go to for one meeting? Wish I could help. Hang in there. I decided to go from back and forth to Icelandic color changes one day. I understand the urges.

Was too busy to knit for my babies.

eance May 31 2012, 09:47:48 UTC

Icelandic colour work ! That`s impressive Ruthless. I have started from scratch; a couple of plain K and P kiddie cardis. Learn to actually read the instructions instead of making it up as I go along. But, I have invested in this http://afewstitchesshort.blogspot.fr/p/fellowship-of-ring-series.html
If I can make the Evenstar before I shuffle this mortal coil I will be content !

more_ruthless June 2 2012, 14:42:29 UTC

Oh, those knitting patterns are SO beautiful. Their all single yarn with a lot of cable/yarn over adding/combining stitches, right? I find that more difficult than icelandic, since it's a bit hard to look back and see what you've done. You really have to concentrate on each row ( ... )