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| Sherries Farm |
Posted - Sep 04 2004 : 09:23:41 AM
I am excited. After teaching the school staff after school last year, I decided to venture out to teach the public (anyone that was willing to learn). Today is my first class. It has taken a bit of time to catch on where my retail shop is (I rent a space as a vendor in a small-mall like building), so I am patient.
It's all a side-business for me as I still work at the school (need to pay the farm mortgage). :)
Happy knitting...
Sherrie
"When you care enough, you make it yourself."
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Jul 06 2005 : 06:40:29 AM
Last January, my sister came to visit from Florida. Well, that happened to be the weekend we had a little ice storm here in Georgia! With icy skies outside and a warm and cozy inside...knitting something warm became the order of the day. Since my sister is not a knitter, she asked Mom ( who lives next door ) to teach her how.
After dinner, we settled in and began Dayna's knitting lesson. My mom is a "lefty"- proud and true. She thought the knitting across would be the perfect way to teach. After 45 minutes of frustration and laughter and my mom holding the needles in my sister's hands and moving them for her we all came to a startling realization- MY MOTHER KNITS LIKE A "RIGHTY"! For as long as I can remember she has told us that it would be difficult for us to knit like her, because she knits left-handed. Well, the joke was on her, my sister did learn to knit,and the weekend was spent with clicking needles making a few very lovely scarves and occasionally going outside to build tiny snowmen on the deck railing. ( For which my children thought we were insane.)
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| countrykat |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 9:12:21 PM
My Granmother is left-handed and I am right-handed. We sat opposite each other at the table and that is how I learned to knit. I have been told that I hold my crochet hook strangly though so maybe there is something to being a righty taught by a lefty.
I knit English and Purl continental. Don't know why. I am working on teaching myself continental though, it is faster and requires less motion of the hands, picking rather than throwing the yarn. I figure if I could learn how to knit with my eyes closed I can learn this too. |
| quiltedess |
Posted - Jun 21 2005 : 8:57:50 PM
Eva: I am left handed and I knit the way right-handed people do. I never really gave it a second thought.
Nancy |
| sleepless reader |
Posted - Jun 21 2005 : 8:17:05 PM
Eva, I had a lefty co-worker who learned to knit by sitting across from her teacher and watching the mirror image. Then everything seemed to be alright (no pun intended) for her.Maybe you could even watch somebody in a mirror? I am a novice knitter (continental) and the friend who taught me knits English. It just never felt right for me to hold my yarn to the right.
Sherrie, good luck with your classes! I'd love to learn how to knit socks. My neighbor talks about knitting argyle socks for her college boyfriend...now husband of 50-some years!
Sharon |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 21 2005 : 6:25:59 PM
Welcome to the forum Noelle! We sure can always use another knitter around!!!
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things! |
| knit_by_the_moonlight |
Posted - Jun 21 2005 : 10:15:00 AM
Hi Eva-
I am a knitting instuctor in Minnesota and I have come across a number of left handed knitters in my classes. Because knitting is a two handed activity, you should learn to knit as everyone else does! Casting on will be the most challenging part for you, but it is for eveyone, so don't worry about it! As far as how you carry your yarn- you can carry it in either your right hand (English) or left hand (Continental) method it is good to learn both in case you want to knit with more than one color in the future. It should not matter that you are left handed. Some of the students that I have had who taught themselves to knit backwards (off of the right needle and onto the left) got very frustrated when they wanted to learn more skills to knit complex projects. Because it is a two handed activity for everyone, you should be able to learn it as everyone does. A good teacher will be patient and help you find the most comfortable way for you. Otherwise, pick up a book like Melanie Falick's Kid's knitting or a Debbie Bliss how to knit book and try yourself! Hope that helped. 
May your stitches never drop and your knitting always be cherished! |
| evahensley |
Posted - Jun 21 2005 : 05:49:46 AM
Question for you Sherry - I would love to learn how to knit but I'm left handed. I've talked to other people who knit and they say I need to learn from someone who can do universal knitting??? Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Eva
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Originally posted by Sherries Farm
I am excited. After teaching the school staff after school last year, I decided to venture out to teach the public (anyone that was willing to learn). Today is my first class. It has taken a bit of time to catch on where my retail shop is (I rent a space as a vendor in a small-mall like building), so I am patient.
It's all a side-business for me as I still work at the school (need to pay the farm mortgage). :)
Happy knitting...
Sherrie
"When you care enough, you make it yourself."
Show-Me FarmGirl |
| Kim |
Posted - Sep 08 2004 : 3:21:47 PM
She was a very special lady and we got very close as I got older. I wrote her a poem for Christmas one year and she asked that it be read at her funeral. My dad had to give me a heads up, so I wouldn't be caught off guard. I have so many memories of the farm and learning stuff from her. I learned to sew on her treadle sewing machine which I now have.
farmgirl@heart
Longaberger Lover and all things antique |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Sep 07 2004 : 6:37:59 PM
What a wonderful rememberance Kim!! YOu really have to do your idea with the bear...that would be so neat!
Jenny in Utah
Bloom where you are planted! |
| Kim |
Posted - Sep 07 2004 : 4:29:17 PM
How cool, Sherrie! I tried knitting once but I didn't have someone around all the time when I got stuck. I would really like to learn to crochet. I have all my grandmothers old crocheting stuff and lot of doilies etc she made.
She even made a baby blanket, hat and jacket for me, so that when I had my fisrt baby, it was there. My father found it in one of the bedrooms all packed up after she passed away. Unfortunately, I never had children. I think I will get it out and put it one a teddy bear I have......I really miss her still after all these years. Mj magazine always brings back memories of her and her farmlife.
farmgirl@heart
Longaberger Lover and all things antique |
| Sherries Farm |
Posted - Sep 05 2004 : 5:31:02 PM
Thanks for the best wishes Elizabeth...it really is fun.
Sherrie
"When you care enough, you make it yourself."
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| ElizArtist |
Posted - Sep 04 2004 : 3:19:14 PM
Dear Sherrie,
That is so exciting! I hope your class goes really well. As you probably know I've been teaching sock knitting, and it's really fun. I'm also now working at the yarn shop where I teach. Any money I make is going to help my kids get through school, it's not much, but it helps.
Take care and happy knitting!
Elizabeth
joyously dancing through life |
