Knitting

[fenchurch]

Learning to knit was one of my goals for this year and with only three weeks left, I figured I'd better get a move on.

I've discovered, though, that I'm definitely going to have to find someone locally who can give me some pointers. Because even with pictures, written instructions and a video I can't seem to get the hang of casting on. I've tried it both left- and right-handed, I've tried both English and Continental and I'm still completely flummoxed by the process... although I strongly suspect that it's probably much, much easier than it's appearing to be.

And now I'm really wishing I'd taken the time to pick the brains of either knitress or tomte when I had the chance!

Comments

[tomte.livejournal.com]

Arr, nice icon matey.

There's more than one way of casting on--you might want to try one that's different from whatever method you're using now (the most common one seems to be the long-tailed cast-on, which isn't all that intuitive to learn from a book). If you're up to it, bring some needles and yarn with you at Christmas and I'll show you at least two different ways.