Comments on: i forgot the combination http://kundhicreative.com/lincolnblog/2009/04/i-forgot-the-combination/ life in the heartland Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:38:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steph http://kundhicreative.com/lincolnblog/2009/04/i-forgot-the-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-7112 Steph Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:48:26 +0000 http://kundhicreative.com/lincolnblog/?p=962#comment-7112 I think it's got to do with my being an engineer, but I learn much better visually. When I started knitting and learned how to fix mistakes (dropped stitches in particular), I noticed that each stitch hangs onto the needle a certain direction, and if you don't pay attention to that, you get twisted stitches. So, I've always been very particular about how I make my stitches. Most of my old Chicago knitting group never paid attention to this--your particular problem has happened to lots of people! A friend had a project involving lace that she was knitting and her stitches were not sitting right, twisting in the wrong places, so the pattern just looked wrong. So, we went through the differences of knitting and purling the front and back loops. Once she worked a few rows and saw how much of a difference that simple fact can make on a pattern, her knitting really took off! I think it’s got to do with my being an engineer, but I learn much better visually. When I started knitting and learned how to fix mistakes (dropped stitches in particular), I noticed that each stitch hangs onto the needle a certain direction, and if you don’t pay attention to that, you get twisted stitches. So, I’ve always been very particular about how I make my stitches.

Most of my old Chicago knitting group never paid attention to this–your particular problem has happened to lots of people! A friend had a project involving lace that she was knitting and her stitches were not sitting right, twisting in the wrong places, so the pattern just looked wrong. So, we went through the differences of knitting and purling the front and back loops. Once she worked a few rows and saw how much of a difference that simple fact can make on a pattern, her knitting really took off!

]]> By: barb http://kundhicreative.com/lincolnblog/2009/04/i-forgot-the-combination/comment-page-1/#comment-7101 barb Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:03:22 +0000 http://kundhicreative.com/lincolnblog/?p=962#comment-7101 "When I do ribbing in the round, I knit continental and purl combination ...... Last night I ripped back to the beginning of the thumb and paid closer attention to the orientation of my stitches" Is this English? It's like I know the words...but you are putting them together in some combination that is completely foreign to me. By the way....I don't like to brag about my creative skills, but I can totally sew a button onto a shirt. Let me know if this is something that I can help you with sometime.... ;) “When I do ribbing in the round, I knit continental and purl combination …… Last night I ripped back to the beginning of the thumb and paid closer attention to the orientation of my stitches”

Is this English? It’s like I know the words…but you are putting them together in some combination that is completely foreign to me.
By the way….I don’t like to brag about my creative skills, but I can totally sew a button onto a shirt. Let me know if this is something that I can help you with sometime…. ;)

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