Knitting speed ??

Are those the Japanese patterns where texture is charted? Knit, purl, YO, etc all have a symbol?

Tara

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As a convert from English/American to German/Continental, I've now set

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Of course I would stay!!! I am way too curious to go home!!! ;-D AUD ;-))

For Me ANY Knitting related activity is both learning and both knitting , i can`t and won`t measure which part or how many percentage of the knitting is learning or `actually ` doing it.

I don`t know how you learned to read or swim but for me the more i do those the better i am at doing them. For me knitting is in my mind, and in my heart and in my muscles it is every where in my body. mirjam

When I learned to read, there were planned drills to improve my reading speed, planned drills to improve my reading comprehension, planned drills to improve my reading endurance - and there was lots of reading for fun. It worked, I am still a pretty good reader, and I still plan drills to improve my reading skills.

When I learned to swim, there were drills for speed, drills for endurance, drills for holding my breath, and swimming for fun. There have been some times when I just had to swim for it, but the drills paid off, and each time I made it.

Sure I knit for fun, but I also plan drills to improve my knitting, just as I still plan drills to improve my other skills. After all, someday I just might have to knit for it. Aaron

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I am glad I never was drilled, I was motivated, and the skills came/still comes from practise because of my love to read, swim AND knit. NOT to be faster, but more secure. I am able to knit pretty fast, after 56 years of knitting, but as I said earlier, I don't want to force the speed, I will relax my hands, shoulders and my mind while knitting. We are different in "body rythm" (can you understand what i mean?) When walking, I'm most relaxed if I can walk relatively fast. My daughter always says: why are you "stressing" like this? Even she is much more trained and athletic than I am. MY body likes to running better than "jogging". I'm sure we are differnt! But I do not like to knit fast, even I am fully able to speed up. I am sure OTHERS love to knit fast, enjoying the "flow" of it. When I read all the messages, I think we can agree about that,

And what is a fact: People learn differently! There is NO fasit to it!(listen to a well educated and experianced pedagogue! LOL) Enjoy your knitting all of you, fast or slow, AND Aron, you say you are a nerd TWICE a year (I loved that!!) I am sure I can be a nerd in some ways, but you tempt me to be a "how-fast-can-I-knit-nerd" just for once,LOL! Aud ;-)