KNITmuch Issue 10

As we do with regular knitting, the needle goes into
the old loop, but instead of wrapping the yarn, we
draw up the next loop.
Now it becomes necessary to turn the work at
the end of every row. Working garter stitch will
go as described earlier. Once a knitting student
is comfortable with this concept, the idea of
stockinette stitch, and purl rows can be introduced.
This is the point when teaching goes pretty well
the way it would for standard knitting lessons, but
the advantage is that the knit stitch has been very
well reinforced by now, and the student is probably
ready to learn something new.
At the end of my knit row, I will turn the work and either knit or purl back.
Now the student learns the difference between
knit rows and purl rows, and how to hold the yarn
at the back or front of the work as needed. It’s at
this point in my teaching that I start to talk about
‘reading your knitting’ and about the ‘bumps’. This
is one thing I wish my grandmother had known to
teach me. The ‘bumps’ in knitting help us know the
difference between right side and wrong side of our
work, they help us find mistakes in our ribbing, and
they can even help us know when to make cables
without the aid of row counters.
Two balls of Loop-it will make an adult-size scarf,
and the free pattern even has some panels of
stitch interest.
I had even more fun with Loop-it – check out my
next article for more!
Free pattern on the label has an interesting stitch pattern,
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