Knit hunh?

[dona_violante]

Someone in recent history was mentioning a knitters group on LJ which was particularly good for n00bs with questions.  Like, those of us who seem to wrap a YO differently every single time we try.  :-\ 

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[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

novice_knitters perhaps?

I can answer a lot of knitting questions -- after over 40 years I'm fairly good at it.

[dona-violante.livejournal.com]

That was it! Thanks!

I'm also on the "Newer Knitters" group on Ravelry - you can never have too many lists. :-D

My big problem right now is yarn overs. Every time I read instructions or watch a video on how to do them, I think I just confuse myself worse. I've got these socks I'm working on with a lace pattern, and more than half the time I did my YOs wrong so the pattern just disappears. :-(

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Even if you do yarnovers right, you'll get different sized ones depending on what stitches you do them between. Between 2 knits or 2 purls, they're pretty much the same.

However, if you knit, yo, purl you'll get a bigger yo than if you purl, yo, knit. I find that purl, yo, knit ones can almost disappear at times.

The mechanics of it (if you're knitting) are that you bring the yarn to the front of the work, then take it back over the needle then work the next stitch.

If you're purling, the yarn is already at the front of the work, so it just goes over the needle to the back of work, then through under the needle to the front of the work for the next purl stitch.

Clear as mud? How about a tutorial on knitting technique at Pennsic?

[dona-violante.livejournal.com]

In this pattern, every YO shows up as knit, YO, SSK. But sometimes I was wrapping the YO front to back, and sometimes back to front - it's amazing the variation possible, whether you mean it or not! But your description is the first I've seen that makes sense. A lot of them say things like "wrap the yarn counterclockwise" and sometimes just "wrap the yarn around", and I just never knew what to do.

A knitting tutorial at Pennsic would be fabulous!

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Goody! Now I have a legitimate reason to visit the Vortex of Evil. I don't have a lot of spending money this year. I'm driving my disposable income :D