Hey!!!! what about my question????

I steek the Norwegian way and have never heard of the wound variety you mention - so am no help. I usually get nervous when I get the scissors out. It has always worked ok for me.

Judy

LOL Well, knowing how I feel about steeking, you shouldn't be surprised that I was no help!

Katherine

I have never steeked, and will likely never try it... I'm waaay too nervous (in this instance) to even think about taking scissors to something I spent time knitting. :o/

I'm sure that you will get some good answers though.

Hey... where's Mirjam? I haven't seen any messages from her for a couple of days... I hope she's okay. I'm sure if she sees this question about steeking, she'll have a response too.

Gemini

I never steek i just knit this parts to and back , like a regular knitting on 2 needles ... mirjam

LOL You can tell that steeking is not a popular thing here!

Katherine

Maybe in Norway!

Kather> Yup, I got that message......I d>>> Ok i give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There may not be a website. The method is described in _Mary Thomas's Book of Knitting Patterns_ (pg.271), but even she doesn't show a picture. She does say that the strands are tied together in pairs (and not woven in, hemmed, or left to felt) after they are cut.

Tying the ends at the color change/row jog point is a standard old Fair Isle method also mentioned in Ann Feitelson's _The Art of Fair Isle Knitting_ but she doesn't mention wrapping; her instructions use "extra stitches" (the old Fair Isle/Shetland term for what the Norwegians call steeking).

=Tamar

I'm cool with steeking!

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:03:19 -0300, "Katherine" spewed forth :

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...