tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729901.post110486501098434261..comments2024-01-05T15:42:56.628-05:00Comments on RoseByAny @-;----: Amiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902177995467607477noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729901.post-1104951457543535982005-01-05T13:57:00.000-05:002005-01-05T13:57:00.000-05:00I think, in a beginning class, that it would be a ...I think, in a beginning class, that it would be a mistake to "let" a student who is knitting Western/English/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, knit in such a manner that she will have to "adjust" or do something else to accomodate this departure from normal, traditional, accepted knitting methods. In my teaching experience, these are usually self-taught students and they have problems following printed directions among other things. There will be no purling difficulties, or need to alter the purl stitch, or twisting of stitches, or difficulties with increases and decreases if the traditional Western method is taught. (There will also be no rowing out.) It will also make life for the teacher a bit more complicated. I know that many say there is no such thing as a wrong way to knit, but in the case of a beginner, I strongly disagree!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729901.post-1104945830238348182005-01-05T12:23:00.000-05:002005-01-05T12:23:00.000-05:00If you wrap the purls in the opposite direction (f...If you wrap the purls in the opposite direction (from underneath, clockwise), this creates a twisted stitch, in which case knitting through the back of the loop will untwist them. I believe this is called a "lazy purl", which I was doing by accident when I first started knitting. It's actually a little easier than regular purling in my opinion. Annie Modessit calls doing the combination of the two combined knitting and has illustrations on her website at http://www.modeknit.com/combined.html<br />Congrats on teaching!<br />Rachel from KRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729901.post-1104930222731221442005-01-05T08:03:00.000-05:002005-01-05T08:03:00.000-05:00OK I'm going to go against the grain here but - I ...OK I'm going to go against the grain here but - I knit 'english' and I wrap the yarn counterclockwise for a knit stitch and clockwise for a purl. I've recently switched to knitting all my knit stitches through the back loop because if I don't do that I get twisted stitches. For almost 40 years of my knitting life I've had twisted stitches and rowed out on the back side of stockinette. I don't anymore. So, when my student started knitting through the back loop, I let her. When she's a little more sophisticated about it and I can tell her to notice the 'leading' and 'trailing' sides of the stitch, she'll be ready to understand why you'd do it one way in flat knitting and one way in round knitting and what the two different decreases do. Hope that makes sense....<br />CarolineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729901.post-1104879180658650292005-01-04T17:53:00.000-05:002005-01-04T17:53:00.000-05:00Reposting the commment that I just deleted (silly ...Reposting the commment that I just deleted (silly me).<br />Amie-<br />I've had a lot of students knitting through the back loop and the only solution I've come up with is to try to break them of that habit. It sounds very snippy of me, but I want all of my students to knit the same way (I don't care how they hold their yarn) but when I'm trying to teach increasing or decreasing, I like to have all of them going the same direction. Last class, I let one girl continue knitting through the back loop and showed her how to purl so that her stitches weren't twisted, but then she ended up twisting her stitches because she couldn't get the purling down. Then when I taught decreasing she started to purl through the front loop as I described in my hand out. She ended up knitting and purling as I taught everyone else, especially after she couldn't get her needle into her stitches. I had to sit with her for a bit and got her going again. That was all within three weeks and the 2nd to last week of the six-week class, she came in with a beautiful wrap and hat that she had made during Thanksgiving. I was so impressed. <br /><br />I talk about how there are different knitting styles and some people knit through the back loop, but I've always found it so difficult to explain how to untwist the stitch in the purl that I just try to get them knitting through the front loop. It makes my job easier, even though I'm sure there are people who would slap my handles with my needles because they think what I do is wrong. Well, slap me if they must, they aren't the instructor. <br /><br />Also as you teach more you'll get better at carrying your yarn in your right hand. <br /><br />I love teaching and wish that I made enough money to do it full-time. :)<br />erica<br />http://erica-lee.org/knit/blog/archive.htmlericahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01889948142933456703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6729901.post-1104878928161092332005-01-04T17:48:00.000-05:002005-01-04T17:48:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.ericahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01889948142933456703noreply@blogger.com