The moment where I try to save you from your knitting
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007I have just discovered that my continental stitch is horribly wrong.
I’ve been knitting around it for years…”Oh, this knit2tog doesn’t lay the correct direction?” I ssk for k2tog, and vice versa. It is probably also why none of the people I have taught really read patterns.
Here is the sight that showed me the light:
Techknitting: The continental knit stitch
Luckily, I’ve been doing the purling correctly. It doesn’t make sense to me that the yarn goes over the needle for the purl, and needs to be jiggered up over for the knit stitch. I’ve been knitting incorrectly for FIVE YEARS. Thanks David Bowie!
Later tonight I’m going to start updating the site with previously finished projects, and my current project, Teva Durham’s Bias Fair Isle from Loop-d-Loop. I just finished the neck, and am now seaming up the sleeves.
