Knittage babble from someone who is pants enough at it to understand is BETTER than if I knew what I was talking about. Yes.
Slipping the first stitch of a row is but one of the available methods of avoiding saggery, and I hates it like poison because it is poo and makes sewing up an arse if you are making anything but a scarf. What I do is knit as normal then, when I have put the right-hand needle into the second stitch but not yet knitted it, pull the first one a bit tighter. Works for me. And isn't wanky. The other thing people do is to knit every first stitch even on purl rows, which can be good but not so much for scarfs.
You have noticed that tension translates into tension in mocking overly-literal fashion, I see. Neatness seems to be a thing that comes with time rather than anything else. I knitted an extra-tiny beret recently out of stress-induced extra-tight tension, and I did not ought to be doing that still.
With some wool knitting two together is easier than you'd think. That may be happening.
Purl-not-knit is no madder than knit-not-purl, really, it's just unusual. It means you are more exciting than most of us and also that you are the anti-Elizabeth Zimmerman. All fun.
My feeble thoughts are that you could just get some underwhelming wool you don't care about and knit and unknit it in relaxing circles until it goes a bit grey. Not that exciting but useful for the practice bit. It is what nos does while waiting for Second Life to load on her antique computer.
As for looping, it's probably easiest to tell just by poking various wools in a shop and seeing what seems to stay wound. Which is another way of saying I haven't a clue.
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Slipping the first stitch of a row is but one of the available methods of avoiding saggery, and I hates it like poison because it is poo and makes sewing up an arse if you are making anything but a scarf. What I do is knit as normal then, when I have put the right-hand needle into the second stitch but not yet knitted it, pull the first one a bit tighter. Works for me. And isn't wanky. The other thing people do is to knit every first stitch even on purl rows, which can be good but not so much for scarfs.
You have noticed that tension translates into tension in mocking overly-literal fashion, I see. Neatness seems to be a thing that comes with time rather than anything else. I knitted an extra-tiny beret recently out of stress-induced extra-tight tension, and I did not ought to be doing that still.
With some wool knitting two together is easier than you'd think. That may be happening.
Purl-not-knit is no madder than knit-not-purl, really, it's just unusual. It means you are more exciting than most of us and also that you are the anti-Elizabeth Zimmerman. All fun.
My feeble thoughts are that you could just get some underwhelming wool you don't care about and knit and unknit it in relaxing circles until it goes a bit grey. Not that exciting but useful for the practice bit. It is what nos does while waiting for Second Life to load on her antique computer.
As for looping, it's probably easiest to tell just by poking various wools in a shop and seeing what seems to stay wound. Which is another way of saying I haven't a clue.
So yes. Knitting is a bugger sometimes.