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Poll: What do you want to learn?
Brenda Dayne has created this poll.
"Please vote for the knitting skills or techniques that you'd most like to learn. You may select more than one option.
Many thanks!
Brenda"
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Comments (26)
November 11, 2009
12:32:12 AM CET
I'd like to learn to knit from charts
June 24, 2009
4:58:00 PM CEST
I think that learning good darning techniques during this current theme make a lot of sense.
I would also like some help with Japanese pattern reading..
May 29, 2009
10:15:48 PM CEST
Short Rows while knitting in the round in stocking stitch. Tried this on a cotton vest to make extra fabric in the bust and the wrapped stitches were painfully obvious even though I used Cat Bordhi's video tutorial on hidden short rows. It seems that the short row worked on one end but then I knitted around to the other end and the wrap was on the wrong side of the stitch so I couldn't pick it up and make it invisible.
I should knit a sample tube and work it out myself how to do it properly.
May 27, 2009
7:57:11 PM CEST
With steeking, I'd like to learn how to finish off nicely. How do you pick up and knit the bands to hide the hideous tentacled mess left over from the cut?
May 27, 2009
2:53:28 PM CEST
Ooh--I vote double knitting, steeking, and backward knitting. These don't seem to be covered in knitting reference books and even the EZ/MS glossary is not very detailed.
May 20, 2009
1:13:26 AM CEST
I would like to learn how to combine multiple strands of yarn for different effects, a la Marianne Isager. Oh, and double knitting.
May 18, 2009
4:10:40 PM CEST
Knitting backwards.
May 18, 2009
6:47:12 AM CEST
Like many others, I would like to learn backwards knitting.
May 17, 2009
10:24:07 PM CEST
Just like many others who have commented here, I too would like to know more about the techniques I already use. I am self-taught and although I can make most of my work look right, I would like to know I am doing things correctly!
May 17, 2009
6:09:15 PM CEST
I've worked my way through all the techniques on the survey except knit design, and then got into spinning - and last week I got my first loom! So weaving is the fiber technique I'm working on now. My goal is to have a full, flexible understanding of everything about yarn and what you can do with it!
May 16, 2009
7:20:39 PM CEST
The next dream class would be about color and tone mixing.
May 10, 2009
7:28:44 PM CEST
What an interesting poll! Thanks for putting it together. I also find that I need to learn special cast-ons/cast-offs for specific projects. For example, I will soon be knitting Isolda Teague's "Snow White" (wonderful, wonderful sweater!) -- ah! but not until I learn how to do a tubular cast-on (and presumably a tubular cast-off?). I wish I had a whole toolkit of cast-ons and cast-offs already stored in my fingers and head so that when I want to start a new project, maybe I can just do it.
May 9, 2009
12:08:48 PM CEST
One of my choices was double knitting which I hope means in this survey - creating an item that is reversible. If not I am interested in learning techniques that produce reversible sides. Also interested in backwards knitting and finishing techniques that don‘t scream homemade.
May 5, 2009
2:11:05 AM CEST
I've tried short rows a number of times and although I've accomplished some very complicated knitting projects, I always seem to get my short rows wrong. I'd really like to master this technique, as conceptually, I understand the value of short rows. I also really want to learn how to design my own projects.
April 30, 2009
3:16:24 PM CEST
Brenda you are such a geek with these things! I love it. I do hope that whatever you choose that it will be a VIDEO, cuz I can't imagine trying to learn some of this from a podcast.
You rock! Stay true to yourself. We love you.
April 30, 2009
5:03:06 AM CEST
I'm far on the beginning end of the spectrum, so while eventually I'm sure I'll want to do more complex things, right now I'd be super excited to learn how to do magic loop and more knitting in the round. Adding details like how to work on two circs would be nice as well. Working on DPNs has been more frustrating than I'd like to admit -- even for a newbie-- so anything to make life easier (and socks more attainable) is what I'd love to learn. Oh! And to concur with others: Moebius cast-on too!
April 29, 2009
11:28:58 PM CEST
I'd also like to learn how to magic loop, knit in the round on two circulars, and the cabling-without-a-cable-needle technique.
April 29, 2009
3:58:17 PM CEST
I also would like to get proficient with working backward as MeganF suggests and Alison concurs. Also purling without the normal 'yarn to front' operation. Somewhere there's a tutorial on that.
And there are a ton of other things that I haven't tried or accomplished like Moebius and other foreign techniques.
April 29, 2009
1:34:45 AM CEST
I second MeganF's comment: I'd love to learn about backwards knitting/purling, instead of turning work on shorter sections. Thank you!
April 29, 2009
12:01:33 AM CEST
How about English knitting for those of us who are naturally Continental knitters? I'd like to be better at that.
Also, another good thing to learn (and which I would like to be better at) is backwards knitting/purling, to avoid turning the work on short sections.
April 28, 2009
10:17:36 PM CEST
I would also like to learn how to correctly clean and care for 100% wool/natural fiber items. How do you avoid stretching, shrinking or otherwise ruin you work by washing?
Thanks, zabby
April 26, 2009
9:50:29 PM CEST
I would like to learn the tips and tricks to fearlessly convert any pieced pattern to one knit in the round.
April 25, 2009
10:21:14 PM CEST
The things I've ticked, I do already know about, and mostly know more than one way to do them ... but ... I'm keen to learn more, to develop more tools in my knit box, I'm keen to try a mobius ... and pull from a set of 6 or 7 cast ons but .. you know - just the other day I found out about the bunny ears decrease (3 stitches become 2 and it has no left or right leanings) ... for me that just reinforced that there are a whole lot of intelligent people and histories feeding into knitting knowledges.
April 25, 2009
6:27:11 AM CEST
I would like to learn Japanese Short Rows.
April 24, 2009
11:53:39 PM CEST
I'd like to learn the Moebius cast-on too
April 24, 2009
9:30:06 PM CEST
I want to learn the mobeius cast on