🥒 Cornichon à l'Anneth 🌿As someone inexperienced in identifying knitting stitched AND being a bit forgetful.. How do people like me remember if they have to knit or purl a row of knitting next? 🙈 I‘ve accidentally changed the pattern like three times already. 🤣 #knitting #neurodiverseknitting
I’m a complete idiot. I have realized today that I‘m doing my knits and purls ENTIRELY wrong and somehow ended up with only purls?! 🤦 Guess what the fabric looks like after finally flicking my yarn the right way.. 🙄
Sarah B 🍉@dillspitzen I did think it resembled garter stitch more than the purl side of stocking stitch!
Helen Lockhart Ripples Crafts@dillspitzen As you gain more experience you'll learn to "read" your knitting. But here's hopefully a tip. When you start a row you'll have the working yarn on your right hand side. Have a look at the piece of fabric facing you. Is it smooth and kind of "flat" or is it textured and "bumpy". If it is smooth, you have to knit the next row. If it is bumpy you have to purl the next row. If you like, once it is light I'll get some photographs to show you what I mean.
@HelenLockhart does „right hand side“ mean „right side of the loop“ or „in my right hand“? because I always hold my working yarn in the left hand.
@dillspitzen Okay, so as you're looking at that fabric the working yarn is on the right hand side of the piece of fabric. If you're knitting stocking stitch (i.e. one row plain, one row purl) then your next row will be a purl row because the "bump" on each stitch is facing you.
@dillspitzen Here are 2 photos to show you what I mean. The LH photo shows what some refer to as the "right" side and the RH photo is the "wrong" side. But these can be misleading names as it depends what side you want to show to the world! But I digress. If the left hand photo is what faces you when you're ready to start a row then you need to do a knit row. If the bumpy side (right hand photo) faces you then you need to purl. This is always assuming you're knitting stocking stitch.
Elaine Anderson@dillspitzen Reading your knitting is invaluable but you can also help yourself to count by using an app like Knit Companion with counters to the right of patterns. Patterns can be downloaded if they are pdfs and the app is free. You could also go the old-fashioned route with paper and hash marks or use a physical row counter available where knitting supplies can be found.
@chipati thank you for the tip! finally a crafting app that exists for iOS! :)
@dillspitzen You're welcome.
knitmaths@dillspitzen Sorry, can't really help with that, because I actually see patterns in everything - so identifying stitches has never been a problem.
You could loosely thread a differently colored piece of yarn through your work and make a bow on the side, where you have to do a knit row?
You could loosely thread a differently colored piece of yarn through your work and make a bow on the side, where you have to do a knit row?
@knitmaths maybe I‘ll get better at it once I get my dedicated „needlecraft“ glasses. right now everything‘s a bit blurry at that focal point.
🍵 holly@dillspitzen @knitmaths Definitely helps when you can see your knitting 😅 Reading glasses are great. Or if you're like me, take off your regular glasses and your own eyes become magnifiers up close.
But yeah, stitch markers are your friend when you need reminders, and you can also get little clickers for counting rows. But then if you're like me and you forget to click them, or forget if you clicked them, well then you're back to the best being learning to read your #knitting
@holly @knitmaths I went to the optometrist on thursday and ordered my regular prescription with an additional 0.5 magnification.
my eyes are too wonky for cheap reading glasses (two totally different values in the eyes) and without glasses I can‘t stitch at all. 😬
my eyes are too wonky for cheap reading glasses (two totally different values in the eyes) and without glasses I can‘t stitch at all. 😬
katalyst@dillspitzen you could try something like this, if you want to stay analoge https://www.knitpro.eu/b/row-counters/en
@dillspitzen this is a single rib I’m currently knitting. If the stitch is going to the back, I need to knit that stitch. If there’s a loop at the front, it’s a purl.
@[email protected]! so in this picture I need to to knit stitches next, right?
🥒 Cornichon à l'Anneth 🌿 (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] does „right hand side“ mean „right side of the loop“ or „in my right hand“? because I always hold my working yarn in the left hand.
Davy@dillspitzen I sometimes keep track in a little notebook or my notes app after every row, and as others pointed out, after a while I start to “see” how the pattern works
KathyReid@dillspitzen I’ve used a stitch marker on the front side to remember which is front - they are available everywhere that knitting supplies are sold
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If it's a 2 row pattern, I have 2 different colored jump rings connected together that I use as a stitch marker. Every time I pass it, I switch from one jump ring to another so I can tell if I'm on an even or odd row.
If it's a 2 row pattern, I have 2 different colored jump rings connected together that I use as a stitch marker. Every time I pass it, I switch from one jump ring to another so I can tell if I'm on an even or odd row.