I read aloud to my partner, who has very poor eyesight, and knit. Done this for years. I know when a pattern is difficult and involves lots of counting (lace or fair isle) because I pause more often. When I knit in a movie theatre though, especially ribbing or seed stitch, I realize from the errors I need to correct that ordinarily I take frequent quick glances at my work. Examining how this works, I read long phrases or sentences at a time, and that’s where the glances downward fit.
Wow you can knit without looking at lace and fair isle!! That's amazing Dorothy! How lovely you read aloud to your partner and knit at the same time. Good tip about glancing down at your work to keep it in check. Thank you for sharing :)
Slip 2, Knit 1, Pass Over Slipped Stitches. It's a centered double decrease. That paired with the YOs would make some kind of lace.
As for knitting without looking, I can do it very easily with plain stockinette, K1, P1 ribbing, or seed stitch. I can sometimes manage simple lace if I have enough stitch markers telling me what to do. Lately though, I've been trying to pay more attention to how I knit.
Thanks so much Tay for sharing your answer to this week's Craft Trivia question. Find out next week if you're right! That's cool that you can handle all those stitches including simple lace without looking. Do you think it's about muscle memory of your fingers? I didn't mention that but during the night this came to me :) Is your attentiveness to your knitting lately due to a particular reason? I'd love to hear about it.
It's muscle memory and feels at time a bit trance like. There's a meditative aspect to watching the stitches being made too though. I'm being more attentive than usual to help my knitting ground me.
Your tee looks delightful at this stage. I do stretches of stockinette or garter without looking. But not for very long amounts of time. I try to have a completely mindless bit of knitting for pairing with the TV watching though.
Thank you for your kind words Kavitha. As discussed here our finger and hand muscles memory kicks in and we can do stockinette or garter easily without looking. :)
I do a lot of watching TV and movies while knitting, and I’ve started reading ebooks too. I definitely like having some easy “mindless” knitting for those times, but I don’t mind a bit of charted knitting so long as I’ve worked through the set-up rows too.
I knit stocking stitch or garter without looking. I can knit some other lace patterns if I know them well enough. I always look when I’m doing Fair Isle but it’s more of a quick glance than a stare.
S2KPO is slip 2, knit 1 pass slip stitches over.
You’d be knitting lace and it’s a variety of centred double decrease.
That's amazing you can do lace patterns without looking if you know them. When you say you know them, what is it that allows your hands and fingers to create the stitches? Thanks so much for sharing your answer for this week's Craft Trivia question. I'll share the answer next week :)
I’m so excited that I got the answer right to your question last week!
I crochet while watching television most evenings. As long as it’s a simple stitch, I can do it without looking down for long periods of time, but I do make quick glances down every few seconds. I’ve tried doing it without looking at all, but I usually end up splitting the yarn or going under the third loop without meaning to. Hopefully someday I’ll acquire the skill of crocheting without looking down at all!
I read aloud to my partner, who has very poor eyesight, and knit. Done this for years. I know when a pattern is difficult and involves lots of counting (lace or fair isle) because I pause more often. When I knit in a movie theatre though, especially ribbing or seed stitch, I realize from the errors I need to correct that ordinarily I take frequent quick glances at my work. Examining how this works, I read long phrases or sentences at a time, and that’s where the glances downward fit.
Wow you can knit without looking at lace and fair isle!! That's amazing Dorothy! How lovely you read aloud to your partner and knit at the same time. Good tip about glancing down at your work to keep it in check. Thank you for sharing :)
Slip 2, Knit 1, Pass Over Slipped Stitches. It's a centered double decrease. That paired with the YOs would make some kind of lace.
As for knitting without looking, I can do it very easily with plain stockinette, K1, P1 ribbing, or seed stitch. I can sometimes manage simple lace if I have enough stitch markers telling me what to do. Lately though, I've been trying to pay more attention to how I knit.
Thanks so much Tay for sharing your answer to this week's Craft Trivia question. Find out next week if you're right! That's cool that you can handle all those stitches including simple lace without looking. Do you think it's about muscle memory of your fingers? I didn't mention that but during the night this came to me :) Is your attentiveness to your knitting lately due to a particular reason? I'd love to hear about it.
It's muscle memory and feels at time a bit trance like. There's a meditative aspect to watching the stitches being made too though. I'm being more attentive than usual to help my knitting ground me.
Ah yes, I agree there's a meditative aspect to watching the creation of stitches. Knitting is a wonderful way to keep grounded. :)
Your tee looks delightful at this stage. I do stretches of stockinette or garter without looking. But not for very long amounts of time. I try to have a completely mindless bit of knitting for pairing with the TV watching though.
Thank you for your kind words Kavitha. As discussed here our finger and hand muscles memory kicks in and we can do stockinette or garter easily without looking. :)
I do a lot of watching TV and movies while knitting, and I’ve started reading ebooks too. I definitely like having some easy “mindless” knitting for those times, but I don’t mind a bit of charted knitting so long as I’ve worked through the set-up rows too.
Thanks so much for sharing Julia. I'm interested to know what you consider "mindless" knitting? Super cool you can work a chart without looking!
I knit stocking stitch or garter without looking. I can knit some other lace patterns if I know them well enough. I always look when I’m doing Fair Isle but it’s more of a quick glance than a stare.
S2KPO is slip 2, knit 1 pass slip stitches over.
You’d be knitting lace and it’s a variety of centred double decrease.
That's amazing you can do lace patterns without looking if you know them. When you say you know them, what is it that allows your hands and fingers to create the stitches? Thanks so much for sharing your answer for this week's Craft Trivia question. I'll share the answer next week :)
I’m so excited that I got the answer right to your question last week!
I crochet while watching television most evenings. As long as it’s a simple stitch, I can do it without looking down for long periods of time, but I do make quick glances down every few seconds. I’ve tried doing it without looking at all, but I usually end up splitting the yarn or going under the third loop without meaning to. Hopefully someday I’ll acquire the skill of crocheting without looking down at all!