[Nfb-krafters-korner] beginning knitter

[Annette Carr]

Sunshine,

Just keep plugging away at your project.  Set small goals to work towards
each week and don't worry about finishing it.  It is good to have a goal of
when you want to be done, but do not focus on it.  

Keep up the good work.

Annette



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From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of sunshine
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 10:26 PM
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] beginning knitter

I jish I could have been knitting for 40 years! I wh have been had I been
able to continue in my 20's! I moved away and couldn't find anywhere to take
classes and people thought they had to teach me left-handed knitting. I've
been doing right-handed knitting most of the time. In any case, my friend,
Linda, will check my afghan next Saturday! She thinks I'm probably doing ok,
though! I'm using larger needles for this afghan, but never have used less
than a size 8. I'm not sure my hands can even tolerate the 6's, but one
never knows. In any case, I'm determined to keep going with my knitting! My
hands are better than they had been for a while! My only problem is that I
have to take several breaks so projects will take longer, unfortunately. I
sometimes feel discouraged, but talk myself out of it the best I can! I
think I've got the continental stitch pretty well figured out, but I need a
lot of practice before I will ever be able to say I can do it. Smiles!

Hugs to all and think of me as I continue this project. I want to complete
it at least by May! Smiles!

Hugs



----- Original Message -----
From: Annette Carr <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Date: Friday, February 1, 2013 8:48 pm
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] beginning knitter

>
>
> I've been knitting just over 40 years and I do not knit with needles 
> smaller than size 4, and I do not care for knitting with needles over size
13.
> 
> .. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner 
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Blindhands at aol.com
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 5:49 PM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] beginning knitter
> 
> Sounds like you are doing well.  Forget those size 2 needles.  I  have 
> been knitting for 50 years and refuse to go down past size 3 needles.
>  
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
> Blindhands at AOL.com   
> 
>  
> In a message dated 1/31/2013 11:12:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
> deimucc at verizon.net writes:
> 
> To  continue with a report from one beginner knitterI started right 
> around Christmas time, I took my two knitting projects up to the 
> neighbor's this morning to be checked for necessary fixes. The two 
> hours of work I did last night was declared drop or split stitch free. 
> Even my rows and borders on the newest piece are straight and tight.
> I used to have big  loops at the beginning of each new row. I was 
> coached to slip that stitch  to try to avoid that, but that didn't 
> work. I was then told to pay  attention to it, and to keep enough 
> tension there so the stitch was not too  big. I don't slip the stitch 
> anymore, I just knit it, and it's working.
> I also used to have a narrow piece of fabric at one end of  the needle 
> hanging down and a wider piece at the other end. That isn't happening 
> anymore either, at least not in what I did last night.
> Is this the beginning of a notable improvement? I sure hope  it lasts.
> Forget about the seed yarn, I just tried it on  size 2 double ended 
> needles and I see I am not in for any great leap there,  I hadn't 
> remembered just how thin that yarn was, let alone trying to use a  
> needle as big around as a toothpick.
> 
> Ok, so that is  it for my reports until I graduate to a whole new 
> level or finish at least  one of these scarves. I hope I have not bored
you all.
> 
> Deidre
> 
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