Re: knitting

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Knitting, like crocheting, depends upon checking your gauge. I learned to knit when my dad got transferred to England. Because his first base didn't have family housing, we had to live on the economy. That's what they called living off base and having to buy things off base. Anyway, the flat that we lived in only had coal fireplaces. Below us was a shop that sold yarn and knitting needles, among other things. The owner of the shop taught me and my sister how to knit and even gave us a pair of knitting needles and a ball of yarn each. She stressed the importance of maintaining the gauge. At the start of any knitting instructions, the directions tell you what the gauge is: 10 stitches equals one inch. If your initial effort doesn't match the gauge, then you have to either adjust your knitting technique,

or adjust the size of your knitting needles. In the beginning, I had a tendency to knit too tightly.I taught myself how to crochet and have done a lot more projects using crocheting, than I ever did with knitting. When I lived in Florida, before moving to Washington state, I made a pair of mittens, a muffler, and a hat using fisherman white worsted. This is an off white color. Most fishermen sweaters are knitted; but, I found a pattern for the hat, mittens, and muffler using crocheting. Most people actually thought that I had knitted them. Our first Winter on this side of the Cascades, I saw one of my neighbors out shoveling her sidewalk. She did not have anything on her hands. I asked her if she had any mittens or gloves. When she said that she didn't, I gave her the ones that I had made. After that, every time I saw her shoveling snow, she had those mittens on.

Donna in WA

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Jealous you can do all the crochet stitches that mimic knitting! Mine

never look right...

in WY

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Re: knitting

Knitting, like crocheting, depends upon checking your gauge. I learned to

knit when my dad got transferred to England. Because his first base didn't

have family housing, we had to live on the economy. That's what they called

living off base and having to buy things off base. Anyway, the flat that we

lived in only had coal fireplaces. Below us was a shop that sold yarn and

knitting needles, among other things. The owner of the shop taught me and

my sister how to knit and even gave us a pair of knitting needles and a ball

of yarn each. She stressed the importance of maintaining the gauge. At the

start of any knitting instructions, the directions tell you what the gauge

is: 10 stitches equals one inch. If your initial effort doesn't match the

gauge, then you have to either adjust your knitting technique, or adjust the

size of your knitting needles. In the beginning, I had a tendency to knit

too tightly.

I taught myself how to crochet and have done a lot more projects using

crocheting, than I ever did with knitting. When I lived in Florida, before

moving to Washington state, I made a pair of mittens, a muffler, and a hat

using fisherman white worsted. This is an off white color. Most fishermen

sweaters are knitted; but, I found a pattern for the hat, mittens, and

muffler using crocheting. Most people actually thought that I had knitted

them.

Our first Winter on this side of the Cascades, I saw one of my neighbors out

shoveling her sidewalk. She did not have anything on her hands. I asked

her if she had any mittens or gloves. When she said that she didn't, I gave

her the ones that I had made. After that, every time I saw her shoveling

snow, she had those mittens on.

Donna in WA