I have problems when I try to knit, because there are more ways to stick a needle through a loop, and wrap wool around a needle, than you might think. When you stick or wrap certain ways, it’s much harder to knit through your old stitches (because the yarn is twisted) and sometimes things end up looking a little funny.
It took me quite a while to even understand knitting well enough to see that there were several different ways I could be performing various knitting steps. Then I had to figure out which one was right. I was re-inspired by a scarf kit gift from Rob and Christa to go looking for some answers. And I found this series of instructions, which are beautifully and explicitly illustrated. I believe they should do the trick.
As an aside,
this page has an interesting discussion on the orientation of the
stitch on the needle, which is something else I’ve grappled with. It notes
that As it
says on that page, “The trick here is to do it all deliberately.” That’s
really what I would like- to understand why doing one thing gives you one
result, and doing something else gives you a different result.
posted at 16:29 on Sun, 14 Jan, 2007 |
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