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Closing Out 2017

Yay! It’s the end of 2017!

Here is a direct link list of all of my blog topics so far.

Alphabetically, of course!

Click to view each.

Blocking                              The Mysteries of Blocking

Cast On                                Backwards Loop Cast On and Long Tail Cast On

Cast on                                 Do the Twist! German Twisted Cast On

Cast On                                 Provisional Cast on: What, How and Why

Charity Knitting               Knitting for Charity

Christmas                            Christmas Kisses!

Christmas                            Knitting for Christmas

Decreasing                          My “Rules” for Decreasing

Double Points                    Double Points: No Fear!

Fall Knitting                       October Knitting

Fixing Mistakes                 Fixing Knitting Mistakes

Gauge                                     It Really IS All About the Gauge

Hats                                        “Fit to be Tied”

Hats                                         Hats!

Holiday Knits                      Valentine Knitting

Increasing                             A Tale of Two Increases

Knit Stitch Projects          The Knit. The whole knit. And nothing but the knit. Part 1

Knit Stitch Projects          The Knit. The whole knit and nothing but the knit… Part 2: Log Cabin Style

Knitting Techniques        The “Right” Way to Knit

Knitting Techniques        “Rules” to Knit By

Mittens                                   Red Mittens: A Personal Story

Organization                       Knitting Goals 2017

Organization                       “To Stash or Not to Stash…”

Reading Patterns             Don’t be a Slave to the Pattern

Picking up stitches          Picking up Stitches in Garter and Seed

Sewing Knitting                Sewing Your Knits: Stockinette Stitch

Small Projects                   Those Hot Summer Knits

Sweaters                              Sheep to Sweater Story

Weaving                               Weaving: A Necessary Evil

Yarn Store                           Your LYS

 

Happy New Year!

Martha 

KnitYourselfHappy

Knitting Blog

The “Right” Way to Knit

Sometimes I hear about the “right way to knit”.

Aargh. Is there really such a thing?

Imagine a scenario:

There you are, innocently knitting away, sitting on the (plane, train, subway, bus), or in the (waiting room, terminal, park, knitting store). And it happens. Someone says, “You’re (knitting, purling, holding the needles, holding the yarn), wrong.” This statement is usually followed up with additional helpful comments such as, “That’s not (how I do it, how I was taught, how my mom, grandma, aunt, did it).” We love those people. We have to love them, because they are our fellow humans. But, we don’t have to LIKE them!

Thoughts flash through our minds, some of them not so polite: “Who are you?” “Why are you speaking to me?” But, after all, this is knitting, and we share. And take turns. And be polite. Continue reading “The “Right” Way to Knit”