Comments | cotterpinx: Hey! I can knit!

cotterpinx

Hey! I can knit!

Jan 02, 2008 08:29

One of the things i put on my Christmas list was a Knifty Knitter knitting loom. I can't even remember exactly how i ran across it, though i think i was looking for something on Amazon and found a book about knitting looms. Oh, maybe it was when i was looking for good ideas for a gift for my niece who loves crafts. Anyway -- it was kind of weird. I ( Read more... )

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rawrin January 2 2008, 14:45:17 UTC

Have you tried different styles of knitting? One is English knitting (which I just cannot do) and another is Continental knitting (my preferred method).

I think there may be other styles out there as well, but those two are most common.

cotterpinx January 2 2008, 15:17:37 UTC

Yeah, i've heard that there are those two options. I'm not sure which one i tried before, but unless there's something that just cannot be done on a loom, i can't really imagine why i'd want to go back to the needles of painful failure. :-) (that's what they've always been for me, anyway.)

Maybe if i keep it up for a while and get more into it, i'll branch out again.

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CONGRATULATIONS!!! cotterpinx January 7 2008, 15:20:24 UTC

OMG!!! Congratulations! I'm so excited for you, i hope everything is going well!! When?? Are you still teaching in DC? Are you going to keep doing that? what's new ETC ETC.

(and tell D. i said Hi, even though he doesn't know me at all. :-)

I would have emailed this but the only addy i have doesn't seem to work anymore, alas, so if you want customized, personalized, mailbox-filling random chattiness, just let me know where to send it. ;-)