Having re learnt to knit in 2009 after making friends with a knitter at work, I don't think I have put my needles down since! I'm a left handed eastern knitter, so I always knit through the back loop, it made following patterns difficult at first but I eventually got my head around it. It all fell into place when one knit night back in my home town designer Ann Kingstone explained that I was an eastern rather than a western knitter. This means I always knit through the back loop, moving my stitches from the right needle to the left. As a result I found reading lace charts difficult as a SSK for me would go the other way, until I realised if I just read the chart left to right and just did decreases and cables which "looked" the same as the chart, then all worked out fine. It means the occassional tinkering, and cardigans can cause a little tinkering as otherwise I'd end up with the fronts wrong. But its minimal disruption now I understand my knitting well enough :D
I have kind of been designing quite soon on in my 'knitting life' as I'm terrible for having my mind set on something I want to make, having this idea of it and not being able to find quite what I'm after. The first one I published on Ravelry was the Aislinn Hat. This was actually because my friend (Aislinn) wanted a hat to match a set of Bellas Mitts I made for her one Christmas and couldn't find anything that quite fit the bill.
What do I do when I'm not knitting? I Live in Glasgow with my partner Chris, were both students.We like to eat out, go to gigs and go to the pub when we can afford it!
Other hobbies? I used to love crossstitching, but since taking up knitting I haven't touch a piece of aida. My Birthday and Christmas present to myself this year was a Kromski Sonata spinning wheel, I had only done very minimal drop spindling previously and found it just wasn't quick enough for me. I am such an impatient person.
I have kind of been designing quite soon on in my 'knitting life' as I'm terrible for having my mind set on something I want to make, having this idea of it and not being able to find quite what I'm after. The first one I published on Ravelry was the Aislinn Hat. This was actually because my friend (Aislinn) wanted a hat to match a set of Bellas Mitts I made for her one Christmas and couldn't find anything that quite fit the bill.
What do I do when I'm not knitting? I Live in Glasgow with my partner Chris, were both students.We like to eat out, go to gigs and go to the pub when we can afford it!
Other hobbies? I used to love crossstitching, but since taking up knitting I haven't touch a piece of aida. My Birthday and Christmas present to myself this year was a Kromski Sonata spinning wheel, I had only done very minimal drop spindling previously and found it just wasn't quick enough for me. I am such an impatient person.
