Comments | emmacrew: now, this is unexpected...

emmacrew

now, this is unexpected...

Jun 12, 2006 17:47

I've been working on a sweater for wrog off and on for some time now (I'm doing it in blues rather than greys). I'm nearly done with the body, and it's pretty much a lap blanket at this point. It's Norwegian style colorwork, so the body is a big tube until you get to the neck, where you scoop out the front a bit and do a little back-and-forth. I just ( Read more... )

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pinkscotch June 13 2006, 00:55:44 UTC

that's so weird. but makes sense at the same time. craziness.

sarakate June 13 2006, 01:03:06 UTC

Huh. That *is* unexpected. But I can see it, sort of.

I, on the other hand, have discovered a sneaking liking for holding *both* yarns in my left hand, after doing the brim of my watermelon hat. *Especially* for corrugated ribbing, because bringing the yarn back and forth for the purls, with my right hand, was driving me into slavering fits, and Norwegian purl totally floats my boat.

emmacrew June 13 2006, 05:10:12 UTC

I think I need to find a way to knit Continental that doesn't make my left hand feel all cramped and hurty. As it is, I'll only use it for the less-used color of Fair Isle type knitting, and after, oh, 5 rounds of this 200-odd stitch sweater, I start to go "augh, hate." Probably not much helped by bulky yarn on size 10s, I don't recall hating it quite so quickly with Shetland wool.

The problem being, of course, the semi-English style I use works perfectly well for me and I'm pretty fast at it, so I have very little incentive to futz around with Continental (I appear to actually do a variant of "English Lever Style" rather than knitting quite the same way most English style knitters do).

sarakate June 13 2006, 12:55:42 UTC

I would really like to learn the lever-style variant; it drives me nuts to have to take my hand off the needle, but I haven't been able to figure out how not to. I can *almost* do it with my left hand when I'm knitting back backwards (which I am currently *insanely* enamored of), but it futzes with my tension a little. Plainly we need to figure out how to get together, and teach each other each other's styles.

jessimuhka June 13 2006, 06:54:54 UTC

FREAK! ;)

Have you tried knitting fair isle with both colors in your right hand? I know quite a few people do it with both in the left, so I don't see why both in the right wouldn't work too.

emmacrew June 13 2006, 07:04:35 UTC

Yeah, though it's been a while. I should try it again and see how the floats go, I think last time I tried that way, they were a bit too tight.

tchemgrrl June 13 2006, 18:06:54 UTC

I do that when working with dps, because it takes so long for me to drop the yarn and pick it up again with my left hand at the end of every needle. Having the main color over my pointing finger (where the yarn is normally for me) and the other color over my middle finger works all right for me--having them in two different places made it easier for me to control the tension than trying to switch them off of one finger.

just_laura June 13 2006, 13:16:37 UTC

What a cool idea; that never would have occurred to me. Only thing would be, I'd always be flipping it over to make sure it looked ok. ^_^

xaviermusketeer June 13 2006, 16:59:56 UTC

The horror! You know you're not supposed to *ever* like purling. EVER. ;)

I can't (or, I should say, I choose not to even try) do the 2-handed thing. I do colorwork with both yarns in my right hand...well, acutally only one at a time. I just pick up what I need when I need it. Don't have too much trouble with the floats that way either.