I have just started with this and have watched the videos and in them they mention things like caking and that the yarn should be cut when changing colors but I dont see demonstrations of this information. It seems so specific so I want to follow what is suggested but dont see it. I see other comments above with similar questions and the answer it to go to the participants BLOG. I have looked in the BLOG at the top of the website and dont see anything what I am looking for the stranded yarn course. I am excited and stuck. Is there another place I am missing? I have CO and knit the first 5 rows i…
The blog post is called Preparing Your Wool....as I shared with you earlier...you must start at the bottom of the participant blog and work your way UP!
The BLOG and the virtual classroom work together to provide the course content so that you can engage fully.
If you need the direct links...please contact me directly.
Hi Patricia. I think my gauge in ribbing is looser than my gauge in stranded colourwork. What would you think about going down a needle size for the ribbing to be sure it doesn’t flare or flip? This is only a few rows of ribbing, so probably not too obvious anyway, but I do want a firm ribbing rather than a floppy one!
After knitting the first 35 rows of the pattern, I overheard (on zoom) some friends talking about how they had to relearn the path of the yarn on their fingers. I reviewed this lesson and found out that I was also doing it incorrectly. Question: Should I un-knit and start over or just continue as I learn a new way of holding the yarns?
My right hand has never explored the anchoring until today, as I have always just pinched the yarn between my thumb and index finger to throw for 37 years.
Now that I have some limited use of my injured pinky on my right hand,
I am trying the anchoring as you show with that hand also.
( my left hand switched to your method about 2 months ago. )
I’ve noticed the yarn doesn’t glide thru my hands tho - yet - and seems to feel it is getting stuck, or sticking a bit. I think it is somewhere in the pinky wrapped region . . . ?
Somehow I skipped lesson 2 and went to 3. Thinking I was very behind I knit through the checkered lines with both colors in my right hand, so now I am going forward with how it is shown and am excited about getting comfortable with doing the same thing in different ways. I've been very surprised at how different your techniques are from other knitters in Norway that I have learned from (like Arne and Carlos on youtube).
Very much enjoying the class so far, and I believe this is a technique I am really falling in love with!
Thank you for checking in...I hope you are settling into the course now.
Please note that I am teaching the traditional techniques from the historic region of Selbu in Norway. Outside of this area...Norwegian knitters do knit differently.
I have just started with this and have watched the videos and in them they mention things like caking and that the yarn should be cut when changing colors but I dont see demonstrations of this information. It seems so specific so I want to follow what is suggested but dont see it. I see other comments above with similar questions and the answer it to go to the participants BLOG. I have looked in the BLOG at the top of the website and dont see anything what I am looking for the stranded yarn course. I am excited and stuck. Is there another place I am missing? I have CO and knit the first 5 rows i…
Hi Patricia. I think my gauge in ribbing is looser than my gauge in stranded colourwork. What would you think about going down a needle size for the ribbing to be sure it doesn’t flare or flip? This is only a few rows of ribbing, so probably not too obvious anyway, but I do want a firm ribbing rather than a floppy one!
After knitting the first 35 rows of the pattern, I overheard (on zoom) some friends talking about how they had to relearn the path of the yarn on their fingers. I reviewed this lesson and found out that I was also doing it incorrectly. Question: Should I un-knit and start over or just continue as I learn a new way of holding the yarns?
Thank you for your clear slow calm descriptions.
My right hand has never explored the anchoring until today, as I have always just pinched the yarn between my thumb and index finger to throw for 37 years.
Now that I have some limited use of my injured pinky on my right hand,
I am trying the anchoring as you show with that hand also.
( my left hand switched to your method about 2 months ago. )
I’ve noticed the yarn doesn’t glide thru my hands tho - yet - and seems to feel it is getting stuck, or sticking a bit. I think it is somewhere in the pinky wrapped region . . . ?
so I keep re-anchoring…
Somehow I skipped lesson 2 and went to 3. Thinking I was very behind I knit through the checkered lines with both colors in my right hand, so now I am going forward with how it is shown and am excited about getting comfortable with doing the same thing in different ways. I've been very surprised at how different your techniques are from other knitters in Norway that I have learned from (like Arne and Carlos on youtube).
Very much enjoying the class so far, and I believe this is a technique I am really falling in love with!