I was innocently searching out how to do an alternate cable cast on for a knitted hat when I made a shocking discovery. As I watched the video of how to do this new cast on I thought to myself ‘this knitting looks pretty strange, let me just watch the how to knit video’. To my horror it was not remotely like how I knit! When I was learning I sort of made it up from some confusing instructions and I’ve actually been using a method called combined knitting. Oh dear. So now I’ve been learning how to knit all over again, it’s slow, but at least patterns make sense now!
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Combined knitting is perfectly valid! Read Annie Modesitt’s _Confessions of a Knitting Heretic_ (ISBN 0975421999). Get over the idea of “wrong” – it’s loops through loops. If you can tell when a stitch sits straight and when it sits twisted, that’s all you need to know.
Thanks Zabet! I know it’s not wrong now, but now I know how to knit both ways now and with my left or right hand so I can switch around when my hands get cramp, which can very handy (hahaha…)
By the way I was looking for Alternate cable cast on to make Glaistig from samhain 06 and I’ve done that hat 3 times now in various ridiculous colourways 😀