What kind of knitter are you?

If you do a Google search for "right slanting decrease", you will find many sites that describe a k2tog. I don't think the authors of all these Web sites are confused. The definition is just based on the slant of the left stitch that comes over the top of the right stitch when the two are knit together. I have never seen a ssk defined as a right-slanting decrease.

Hello fellow adventurer....in textiles, that is me as well. I will learn a basic pattern,after that the sky is the limit.

Els

Why not?????

Katherine

r.c.t.y.

Wow, Ray! Why question mark it? LOL Noreen

OMGosh, Carey, your running commentary rolled me over! LOLOL Noreen

adventurous.

wins!!)

out.....)

I managed the home page , but from there on , i couldn`t find the quiz , thus i have no idea waht kind of knitter i am ???:>:>:> probably i am only a mirjam knitter .... mirjam

Good enough,

Els

Ah . . . you'd be a goddess, guru, adventurer all rolled into one :)

Sonya

Well, Noreen, some times I just get a little silly, but luckily, no one seems to mind.

-- Carey in MA

Being a thrower or picker doesn't matter, but it does matter if you use one of the less common ways of wrapping the yarn around the needle. If you wrap it clockwise instead of counter-clockwise (also called anti-clockwise), then the stitches will have the other side forward on the needle and twisted stitches can result. That can affect how stitch manipulations will look.

SSK is the same as S1K1PSSO. K2tog slants the opposite way from SSK because the stitch that is on top, most visible from the front, begins on the left in one and on the right in the other.

=Tamar

The things one can learn from this group. I've never seen anyone wrap the yarn clockwise and would never have thought of that. I have seen people who knit from the back of the stitch and have it come out twisted. Now I have to go and see if you do knit from the back will that change the direction? Lucille

For ages I purled "backwards" and so had the stitches mounted left-leg first on the needle when I turned the work. It took me a while to realize that the subsequent knit row was twisting :P

O happy day when I discovered circular knitting and its commeasurate reduction in necessary purling :)

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:21:41 -0500, "Lucille" spewed forth :

Hi everyone! The test told: "You appear to be a Knitting Guru. You love knitting and do it all the time. While finishing a piece is the plan, you still love the process, and can't imagine a day going by without giving some time to your yarn. Packing for vacation involves leaving ample space for the stash and supplies. It can be hard to tell where the yarn ends and you begin. "

I can not say that the test would lie. I recognize myself. Can't deny that. Knitting is something I need. But I also must admit that my knitting waits me at home when my stitching follows me to vacation. Best: Pirjo

Sonya Cirillo wrote in news:4236cf6d$0$174$ snipped-for-privacy@news.airnews.net:

i knit "backwards" (through the back loop apparently), so my K2tog & SSK slant the same direction. so i K2tog through the front loops for a right slant... i just figured this out. i was going crazy trying to make my decreases match on both sides of the marker. lee

Thank you Sonya and noreen i am realy no Purist nore godess nore guro , but i am a threadaholic a needle waving person , and love knits crochet and woven stuff ... mirjam

...I am a knitting purist, sigh. I wish I wasn't such a snob...

Laura M

Same here, and I killed myself trying to purl "forwards" while picking instead of throwing. For some reason I found it almost impossible, I finally gave up, now I do it the way it's comfortable so my knit stitches hang forwards and my purls hang backwards, I just am careful to insert the needle appropriatly on the next row so make them come out right.

-Liz