A Blog about Knitting
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Martha
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
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”
