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Thursday, August 05, 2004

Can you read?


Read your knitting that is.
I'm not sure how I learned to read patterns but I know I learned to read knitting and crochet from my gram. She's one of those ladies that can walk into a department store, see a knit or crocheted item and figure out how its made. She'll be holding it and muttering the directions to herself; "That's 1x1 rib and then its a cable to the back with 6 stitches and they do it x number of times and lets see, how many stitches for the front and add 2 for the seams."

That always used to impress the hell out of me. I can't really do that perfectly, but I'm learning everyday. Now, give gram a pattern and she's lost. I can't even read a pattern to her. I used to make her swatches from the pattern and she would use those to make a garment from whatever book. Well, she doesn't bother with that anymore, I have all the books and at 90 she just does what she wants and tells me if something is intersting.

Long story, but there is a point. It's important to read a pattern and to learn to read your knitting. I can finish a section and then go back and tell what I did if I forgot to write it down. Its necessary to stray from a pattern to make something fit our own bodies properly. Sometimes I make a mistake and need to find it in order to correct the piece, or to be able to rip back properly. I cringe at the thought of frogging. But sometimes I can't help it.

I'm glad Gram taught me to read my knitting. Instead of relying on my memory, which I've explained isn't very good at times, I read my waves sock. I didn't write down how many stitches did what, and how I changed my decreases just so I could have ribbing down the top of the foot instead of the waves pattern. After turning the heel the other night I realized that I read correctly and both socks are looking like a pair. I'm in the home stretch with those now.

Have you read a good piece of knitting lately?


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