Ah, Right.
Aug. 16th, 2008 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It transpires that my grandmother, mother and father were all taught to knit in the most spasticated way known to mankind. Essentially English style, but for some reason holding the yarn in your left hand, as well as the needle with all the stitches on. Which basically means that your left hand has to do twenty things at once and your right hand doesn't have to do very much at all but try and get the needle in the stitch. Which is, to be fair, quite enough for your right hand to be coping with when your left hand is busy surreptitiously pulling the entire thing tighter than a gnat's fucking chuff. I take it this is how Dutch people knit. I am, yet again, proving to not be Dutch enough to cope with these sorts of things.
THANK YOU, EVERYBODY, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
virginhuntress especially, for your help and advice (and frankly magnificent breasts). The knitting is now fine, it's not too tight and way neater than it was. The stitches are actually loose enough for me to see what I'm doing and there's not too much tension, which means I can actually unpick bits if I've done someting wrong. I can both knit and purl.
I am no further with the thing that is destined to become the world's narrowest and most special needs scarf, but at least I know what I'm doing now.
It transpires that my grandmother, mother and father were all taught to knit in the most spasticated way known to mankind. Essentially English style, but for some reason holding the yarn in your left hand, as well as the needle with all the stitches on. Which basically means that your left hand has to do twenty things at once and your right hand doesn't have to do very much at all but try and get the needle in the stitch. Which is, to be fair, quite enough for your right hand to be coping with when your left hand is busy surreptitiously pulling the entire thing tighter than a gnat's fucking chuff. I take it this is how Dutch people knit. I am, yet again, proving to not be Dutch enough to cope with these sorts of things.
THANK YOU, EVERYBODY, and
virginhuntress especially, for your help and advice (and frankly magnificent breasts). The knitting is now fine, it's not too tight and way neater than it was. The stitches are actually loose enough for me to see what I'm doing and there's not too much tension, which means I can actually unpick bits if I've done someting wrong. I can both knit and purl. I am no further with the thing that is destined to become the world's narrowest and most special needs scarf, but at least I know what I'm doing now.
