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which_chickI have taught myself to do two-handed two-color knitting. That's what I did this evening instead of cooking dinner. Now, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
not_your_real may recall that I claimed I would not ever do this. I said that one string and one stick in each hand was really not a feasible concept no matter what other people on the internet said in their damn blogs. I said that it was fussy and entirely too difficult and besides, pursuing two-handed knitting would mean I'd need to learn to knit continental, which I would not ever, ever do because holding the string in one's left hand and picking stitches instead of throwing them was impossible, sick, and wrong. Er. I may have been a bit hasty with that judgment.
Two-handed two-color knitting is only shitty for the first two hundred or so stitches. After that, it gets better pretty rapidly as the previously unyarned hand figures out what to do with the second string and you get a grip on making the stitches for either picking or throwing, whichever you didn't do before.
The purple stitches were made the (for me) usual way, with the yarn thrown around the needle from the right hand. The green stitches were made the (for me) new way, with the yarn held in the left hand and picked by the right needle. (The yarn is leftover from the bag I finished here a couple of days ago, which is why I'm using those two colors to practice my two-handed, two-color knitting.)
not_your_real may recall that I claimed I would not ever do this. I said that one string and one stick in each hand was really not a feasible concept no matter what other people on the internet said in their damn blogs. I said that it was fussy and entirely too difficult and besides, pursuing two-handed knitting would mean I'd need to learn to knit continental, which I would not ever, ever do because holding the string in one's left hand and picking stitches instead of throwing them was impossible, sick, and wrong. Er. I may have been a bit hasty with that judgment. Two-handed two-color knitting is only shitty for the first two hundred or so stitches. After that, it gets better pretty rapidly as the previously unyarned hand figures out what to do with the second string and you get a grip on making the stitches for either picking or throwing, whichever you didn't do before.
The purple stitches were made the (for me) usual way, with the yarn thrown around the needle from the right hand. The green stitches were made the (for me) new way, with the yarn held in the left hand and picked by the right needle. (The yarn is leftover from the bag I finished here a couple of days ago, which is why I'm using those two colors to practice my two-handed, two-color knitting.)
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Date: 2005-07-13 01:07 pm (UTC)The yarn that is not being used to knit with at the current time lies across the back of the fabric. It's called a float, and if you do a big enough stretch (about an inch or so) of one color, you will need to catch the float -- to tack it down so that it's not loose. That's more advanced than I currently am, so I don't know quite how that works yet. There will probably be more on this subject tonight, so check back.