Sunday, February 6, 2011

Knit and Purl and that's it?!

One of the comments I hear most often in class is that learning to knit is hard.  My response is always that knitting is easy, learning to knit, not so much.  Why?  Well for one it's a new skill that requires focus and the conscious use of both your right and left brain.  Now we use both halves of our brains all the time execute common tasks like walking, driving, writing and so on, but we are not always aware of all the minute steps involved in each of these activities because we've mastered them.  Knitting is the same, with practice, you will master the movements and then knitting will be very much like all the other stuff your right and left brain have mastered so it will become very easy.

Not only will it be easy, but, there are only two stitches.  The knit stitch and the purl stitch.  Everything else in knitting is a combination or variation of those two stitches.  Cables, lace, fair isle, intarsia, entrelac, and everything else in knitting is just a combination of knits and purls or variations of knits and purls.  Think about this for a second.  If that is all there is, then once you've mastered making knit stitches and purl stitches then you can do any kind of knitting you can imagine, there really is no limit!

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