Well I made Stephanie laugh and laugh with my admission the other day that I tried to use the drop spindle upside down. I hadn’t known I was doing it wrong till I went to the Great Lakes Fiber Show and had someone show me how to REALLY do it.
Get ready to laugh again Steph!
Recently we got digital cable. Much to my delight, this included DIY, which means I get to watch Knitty Gritty. YEAH! Not only can I watch it but we got a DVR so I can record it, rewind it and watch it any time I want!
Well as I kept watching the guests knitting on the Knittycam, I kept thinking why is she knitting into the front of all her stitches?
What’s up with that. The first time I thought. Oh it’s just a fluke or I am just not looking at it right!
The second time I thought ut oh, she’d doing it too. As I kept watching I kept seeing it. I started to think. Oh no! I knit backwards! 😳 So I pulled out my handy Yarn Girls journal, yep they had the knit stitch with the right needle going in from the front to the back. But thought I my knitting looks normal at least so far as I know! Now what! I always have put the right needle in behind the left.
So now I am full of questions:
Is it like totaly wrong?
Does my knitting only look normal to me because that is all I know?
Is this why I knit kinda slow?
Is this concidered a twisted stitch?
Am I using more yarn this way?
UGH! What do I know? (please refer to blog title)
Who taught me this anyway?? (I have no recollection whatsoever of whom taught me to knit and when, weird eh?)
Well I guess I might just frog the thing I am working on that bias rectangle and redo it the other way? Or mabye not. I am just about to the point where I shouldn’t (too much work to redo)
I have the yarn to try a new One skein Wonder, perhaps I will try knitting the right way with that?
Well for now I need to work on my loom book projects anyway! Whew, saved by the work!
Overheard at my house:
Me:When do I have time to read?
Julian(who is three): You have knitting books Mom!
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