I must admit, I was just doing too many things, seeing too many people and running here and there while up north, to stop and blog about it! Sorry!
I was very happy to get the opportunity to go with S. to see our mutual friend P. [Who is in her 80's] and spent well over an hour with her. She was manning the local Artist's Guild gift shop and we got to see stacks of her hand knitted sweaters. Oh yes, those sweaters were knit with her hand spun yarn too. Amazing!
Sharon confessed she knew a little knitting and I promptly handed her my project and away she went. Then we gave her some I cord to work on because she has an idea to use it on one of her other craft projects after it is felted. So we sat on the floor and knit away. P. took a look at my knitting technique and declared that I was wrapping my yarn around the needle the wrong way.
So I tried it her way for several rows on the bag I was making and yes, there was a definite difference.
Now I am having an existential knitting meltdown because I revere P's skill and experience and I just hate to ignore her observations, or her advice.
Ergo.... my very next project will be knit with the 'proper' twist around the needle for each stitch.
Then I will knit an identical thing in my old way and decide.
I quoted Robert Frost while trying the new way there at the shop....
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. "
I am mortified that I have been plowing along in my ignorance all these years. But I don't know if I have the pecans to start doing things in a very different way at this point.
But I have been corrected by a Master Knitter!
I even went and checked out my purl stitch compared to tutorials on the internet, and I pick up that stitch backwards too.... Hey! maybe the second mistake cancels out the effect of the first.
Ya think????
(Wow, Double Denial. Not often seen, even in these pages....)
Tend to your OWN knitting ( ) !
So, my knitting world has tilted on its axis today. It's going to take me some time to get things back in balance. And make some decisions.
Drat!
I was very happy to get the opportunity to go with S. to see our mutual friend P. [Who is in her 80's] and spent well over an hour with her. She was manning the local Artist's Guild gift shop and we got to see stacks of her hand knitted sweaters. Oh yes, those sweaters were knit with her hand spun yarn too. Amazing!
Sharon confessed she knew a little knitting and I promptly handed her my project and away she went. Then we gave her some I cord to work on because she has an idea to use it on one of her other craft projects after it is felted. So we sat on the floor and knit away. P. took a look at my knitting technique and declared that I was wrapping my yarn around the needle the wrong way.
So I tried it her way for several rows on the bag I was making and yes, there was a definite difference.
Now I am having an existential knitting meltdown because I revere P's skill and experience and I just hate to ignore her observations, or her advice.
Ergo.... my very next project will be knit with the 'proper' twist around the needle for each stitch.
Then I will knit an identical thing in my old way and decide.
I quoted Robert Frost while trying the new way there at the shop....
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. "
I am mortified that I have been plowing along in my ignorance all these years. But I don't know if I have the pecans to start doing things in a very different way at this point.
But I have been corrected by a Master Knitter!
I even went and checked out my purl stitch compared to tutorials on the internet, and I pick up that stitch backwards too.... Hey! maybe the second mistake cancels out the effect of the first.
Ya think????
(Wow, Double Denial. Not often seen, even in these pages....)
Tend to your OWN knitting ( ) !
So, my knitting world has tilted on its axis today. It's going to take me some time to get things back in balance. And make some decisions.
Drat!