tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36286891.post116282003964169759..comments2013-02-26T16:56:16.809+01:00Comments on And Sew To Knit: Progress and a new bagyvettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17694096747738470907noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36286891.post-1162853819310294742006-11-06T23:56:00.000+01:002006-11-06T23:56:00.000+01:00My sister taught me the right-hand-yarn method whe...My sister taught me the right-hand-yarn method when she was a teen and I was about 6. (Who taught her to knit?????) A decade or so later she showed me the continental way, saying, "If my hands could learn to do this one complicated thing, it can learn another one". I tried it after a while and I was okay with knit and bad with purl so I switched hands a lot until one day I was doing ribbing and finally refused to do it right-handed. Purling continental IS slower than knitting continental, but it beats RH. Then, another decade along, she told me she had been laddering-down a mistaken cable, and then knitting it up, back and forth, no turn-and-purl, so that she could keep track of the repaired cable. This I refused to do until last week when I started an entrelac project. I have to hold the bump-end (what is it's name???) of the needle in a fold of my waist to hold it still because my left hand can't hold and throw at the same time. So going to the left and going to the right are very different movements.<BR/><BR/>That's my story of left and right.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes, everyone!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36286891.post-1162841543594031752006-11-06T20:32:00.000+01:002006-11-06T20:32:00.000+01:00when you say everyone knits english ... do you mea...when you say everyone knits english ... do you mean that they are all drop yarn throwers, throwers or lever knitters? I'm always fascintated by how people knit too...and have noticed that most drop yarn throwers are North American. <BR/><BR/>nice bag!alltangleduphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04558957249397477876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36286891.post-1162834537643478032006-11-06T18:35:00.000+01:002006-11-06T18:35:00.000+01:00Clean-up in Aisle 7 -- must be a yarn spill for th...Clean-up in Aisle 7 -- must be a yarn spill for the knitters/janitors! ; )<BR/><BR/>What a cute bag. I hope you show us the newly acquired fabric -- sounds like fun. I've never had much of a fabric stash... but I could!Vicki Knitorioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03342431774644974327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36286891.post-1162833982327064042006-11-06T18:26:00.000+01:002006-11-06T18:26:00.000+01:00I'm sure you'd love to learn to spin. Thanks for t...I'm sure you'd love to learn to spin. Thanks for the support re teenagers - I didn't publish it because the young 'un knows about my blog and I thought that this would be the one bloomin' time he would read it!<BR/> Off to finish the case study - assignment hand in tomorrow, so this is the home run - yeehah<BR/>IndiaTwelfthknithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06793069163403584688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36286891.post-1162830772179775742006-11-06T17:32:00.000+01:002006-11-06T17:32:00.000+01:00Darn Blogger playing up - It's me! I'm not annonym...Darn Blogger playing up - It's me! I'm not annonymous! I want to come to a Grenoble Bee....<BR/>IndiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com