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September 01, 2004
as the world turns..
well as it truley does turn out my knitting is all messed up. I am glad I decided to take a different teacher this time. I am a true believer you should always try to have different teachers. Imagine what you could do with the combined knowdlege of 3 or 4 expert knitters? This teacher is a bit more detail orianted and we got all kinds of neat hand outs. I was in denial of my needing to be in a "begginers" class (I am an over achiever) but it does look as though I need to be in it.
She showed me how to tell me knitting was messed up by streching my knitting out horizontally in my hands. She then stretched another girls knitting. It was all knice and even, mine stretched out had small holes and big holes.. she said the small ones are my twisted ones.
She also very clearly explained to us how to do the math in your head for deciding needle size and gauge based on what the pattern says and what the yarn says. I finally *got it*.
So I'm really SUPER mad because from what she saw my knits and purls are wonky. Class flew by and so we didn't get to me learning how to do it right. Another lady in class was knitting in some REALLy strange way I had never seen before. I wonder how many people are knitting wonky and don't know it? It's very hard to tell, and the FO's SEEM okay but it's this whole "slant to the stich" thing and effects the "spring" in the finished "fabric" as she said.
So I am sooooooooooo anxious to learn how to knit right. I'm making a cute hat out of some Sirdar yarn for a co-workers new baby, and one for my sisters son, as fun side projects inbetween the two harder ones. Problem is I want to knit it RIGHT. So I went home and got out my little book which does have a very short illustration of continental knitting and purling but when i stretched out my knitting it was still wonky mis-shapin holes.
CAN I TELL YOU HOW FRUSTRATING IT IS!! ya know when you accidently pass your exit on the highway and it's about 3 miles before the next exit, you know that awful feeling when you KNOW your going in the wrong direction and you don't need to be, but you can't do anything about it just yet? That is a pet peeve of mine, and exactly how I feel RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!
In other news I am going to buy another domain for my knitting blog and I'm not going to say here, instead i will just start commenting in blogs with my new address and those who know me will recoginize some things.. but I'm doing it so on the off chanse I want to make any personal remarks about my life I don't want to have to worry about people I know reading it. Not that i say much about my personal life, but I don't like editing myself and I don't like thinking people I know read about my knitting (unless I personally give them the URL and know they are reading it, thats fine).
Oh and I have a sore knitting muscle in my left hand :) hehe.. I n eed to GET INTO SHAPE! haha..
Posted by brandy at September 1, 2004 10:44 AM
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Brandy, I can understand your frustration. I have been knitting for almost twenty years (!! well, with long breaks) and my knitting often is not even. And I still haven't learnt to knit continental (in Italy, where I am from, people knit English).
I would be happy if you let me know your new web address!
Posted by: Marta at September 1, 2004 02:12 PM