Today is the first day of Knitting Crochet Blog Week, and this is my first post in that series. The theme today is how I started knitting in the first place.
Like most kids in Finland, I first learned in school. Or I can't really say learned, I tried and Mum finished the items! I really didn't like knitting at all, and forgot it for years.
Then during the long and lonely evenings in Dublin, where I didn't manage to make many friends, I decided to learn from books. I borrowed Knitting For Dummies
The funny thing was I learned to knit "backwards" first. I misread one of my books, and got the impression that I'm not supposed to turn my work unless explicitly told so in the pattern. So as I had finished my first row of my first scarf, I didn't turn my work but started knitting with my left hand leading (I'm a very strong right-hander!). I actually managed to learn this in a way, and finished a scarf in this method! I then visited my Mum and she assured me it's quite OK to turn your work after every row when working straight! Sometimes I'm a bit sad that I've forgotten all about the left-handed knitting, but then again I'm doing fine with my right one.
Oh, and the tag for today's post is knitcroblo1 (search this in a search engine and you'll find many other participants of the Blog Week)
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That is so interesting about
That is so interesting about how you learned to not turn your work! I don't think I could ever knit that way.. kudos to you for figuring it out! :)
That's interesting that you
That's interesting that you learned how to knit both with your right and left hands. I learned this pass fall how to knit left handed, I took my teenage niece to a short lived youth knitting group, where two of the girls were left hand and just beginning to knit so I thought I'll learn how to knit with my other hand to help them.
I have tried to learn
I have tried to learn knitting backwards to avoid turning to purl but it drove me crazy trying to figure it out.
Thanks for your comments! I
Thanks for your comments! I felt really silly as my mum told me that I was doing it way too hard! I wish I could do it still, as my husband says he'll only learn to knit when I can teach him to knit left-handedly. Then he'd have no excuse left :D