Every Monday night at The Life Craft we have a knitting & crochet group on called “Purls of Wisdom” and it’s a great laugh. Lots of knitters & crocheters from across the ability & age spectrums get together and share a cuppa and a chat whilst ploughing on with whatever they’re working on at the time and it’s quite simply a pleasant way to spend a day.
So, I’ve been knitting since I was about 4 or 5 – my Nana taught me when I was very young – and I’ve always prided myself on being damned good at it until last Monday! To illustrate, I’ll show you a photograph of a part-knitted sock.
It’s inside out! I’ve been knitting in the round for years and I’ve been doing it wrong all this time. A couple of the knitters at last week’s class looked on in bewilderment before managing to show me how I should have been doing it all these years. What an eejit. But it goes to show that it doesn’t matter how well you’re doing things, sometimes you can still be doing it wrong!
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This post was written by Vonnie on September 6, 2010
It’s only wrong if you are a stickler for knitting rules…. Some socks are knitted inside out – fairisle ones mainly to stop the strands becoming too tight – so you were clearly just refining your skills…
It looks pretty good to me!
Surely though once you finish it you can just turn it inside out?
Who needs rules? I love that pretty yarn.
Its your own way of doing something thats unique to you, I’d just keep knitting them inside out if it works for you! Either way I’m sure you get a sock : )
My one and only attempt at sock making resulted in a huge tangle and me having a meltdown, so even inside out looks good to me!
Hi, linked to your blog from “little cotton rabbits”. That’s a gorgeous colour sock yarn whichever way it’s knitted. I have the same problem with crochet, I hold the yarn in the wrong hand, as you do with knitting. Could never do it any other way and it always seems to turn out ok.
Lovely blog. x