Sure I struggled at first. I didn't do it in public because I looked like a dork but eventually it became comfortable and I could venture out. Sure I noticed my tension was looser but eh so what - smaller needle will solve that right? Sure I noticed that my usual neat knitting was looking a little messy but it would get better I assured myself. I still didn't see that I had a problem when I started to make up excuses in public for my sloppy knitting; "oh this yarn", "just a little tired", "the weather""more/less coffee". I was in the "in" crowd, people liked me. I was fast, it was just me and the addis. And ribbing it was a dream, I was like the wind, seed stitch stand aside.
Well it has been over a year now and still my knitting looks like crap. So I have been secretly returning to the comfort of english knitting. The slow, steady neatness of it. And I am remembering I have never wanted to be cool. Those cool kids they usually aren't very nice, remember high school?
And then I was doing a swatch and it just wasn't working and so I changed hands and look:
Bottom - leftie
Top - rightie
Same needle size
Yep I guess I was just never meant to be hip.
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Hey rightie, I am incredibly frustrated by finally 'learning' at 40+ what works best for me is not generally what I've spent the last few years doing - you think I'd get it sorted earlier. So it is great to hear that happens to others to.
Catch up soon? Next wed nite is out - School stuff, montessori agm - important issues, bother ...
Hehe. I've been trying some Continental lately, and it's just not happening for me either. I'm sure more practice would help. I so want to be like EZ, whether she's cool or not.
Whoa! That's a pretty intense difference.
I'm having trouble getting fully comfortable with continental. It's that darn purling...
Wow, I'm amazed at the difference. I too knit only English - we're a hip subculture!
I tried teaching myself Continental because I heard rumors it would increase speed. Seeing the unevenness and strange gauge, I likewise decided it wasn't worth going faster to knit something I was unhappy with.
wow. that is a huge difference. I am a leftie and I never knew it was cool.
you are right, the cool kids were NOT nice in high school.
I must be the lone gal out, folks, because I switched to the left about five months ago and LOVE it. My knitting is still even (yes, it took a little while to get there, but what's practice for?), but the >feel< of the knitted fabric is more fluffy now than it was with a RH carry. Well, to each her/his own.
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