Knitting 🧶 (Help and Knitters Chat Thread)

[pennyJo1960]

The world is built on differences we all do different and learn different that makes America wonderful

 

[BullChick]

I am sharing another video only because she says something so helpful!! Beginners cast off too tight, so we should use a wider needle for casting off, and that should help us get the next row more easily. I have practiced with a few items (new knitting needles arrive tomorrow or Wednesday), and I am getting better at loosening up. I also have come to terms with different videos using different styles. Just like I tell a BYC newbie, don’t get too dizzy by conflicting information. Find your own style.

 

[BullChick]

I later upgraded to a circular needle set from Denise.

I will be adding needles when I know I’m actually into this, and I’m already pretty sure that the circular one is going to come in handy.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I will be adding needles when I know I’m actually into this, and I’m already pretty sure that the circular one is going to come in handy.

So far I think maybe no I like the other one you posted on the second page
being a confused leftie I still can only do this stuff left handed no matter how hard I try and at 60 do not think that will change

 

[Fishychix]

I am sharing another video only because she says something so helpful!! Beginners cast off too tight, so we should use a wider needle for casting off, and that should help us get the next row more easily. I have practiced with a few items (new knitting needles arrive tomorrow or Wednesday), and I am getting better at loosening up. I also have come to terms with different videos using different styles. Just like I tell a BYC newbie, don’t get too dizzy by conflicting information. Find your own style.

I almost always use a larger needle to cast on. I also find my tension changes all throughout. Usually only noticeable on scarfs and blankets. I can always tell when I’ve had a bad day.
“Find your own style.” Absolutely!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I may as BF to take a side trip for me to Joanns fabrics

 

[BullChick]

I almost always use a larger needle to cast on. I also find my tension changes all throughout. Usually only noticeable on scarfs and blankets. I can always tell when I’ve had a bad day.
“Find your own style.” Absolutely!!

Btw, I gradiated from NE OH. Don’t remember which school since I switched four times my senior year.

 

[Sally PB]

My mom highly recommended casting on and off with a larger sized needle when I was starting, and that helped a lot! I wanted all the stitches to be nice and even, which meant I pulled the yarn tighter. So a bigger needle fixed that problem. Sometimes I knit the last row on a larger needle too, especially if it has to stretch some, like a neck or cuff on a sweater.

I LOVE circular needles. All the work is sitting there, supported in your lap, so there isn't a big problem of one needle "feeling full and heavy" and one "light and empty." Knitting large items mean you need a longer needle, and to me they just stick out and bang into the arm of the chair.

I do not cast on on a circular needle, though. I need that rigidity to work with me and for me.

Another thing I learned was that cotton yarn was harder to knit with. It isn't stretchy like wool or acrylic. It doesn't "slide" the same way on the needle, either. Wool is by far my favorite fiber to knit with, though I have to say acrylic has come a looooonng way too, since I was a kid.

 

[BullChick]

I can finally cast on the way I’m supposed to, and I've gotten all the way to the end of the second row before the last two stitches fell off, and pulled out.

 

[BullChick]

Has anyone else been practicing?