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[KnottedYet]

BMo3, or whoever else might have suggestions --

a challenge for me is patterned knitting. Being a lefty, things like cables always turn out WEIRD. Anyplace I can find how to make these turn out well instead of very very strangely?

(upside down, backward, inside out, you name it, the really exciting patterns turn out very very strange)

Karen in Boise

Kano, I'm a lefty knitter, too. A friend taught me to knit Norwegian style, and that solved all my tension and twist-stitch problems. I can even do pretty cables! (I was twist-stitching on the knits, purls were ok)

Is there a yarn shop where you can ask someone to watch you knit and help you fine-tune your technique?

[Kano]

Kano, I'm a lefty knitter, too. A friend taught me to knit Norwegian style, and that solved all my tension and twist-stitch problems. I can even do pretty cables! (I was twist-stitching on the knits, purls were ok)

Is there a yarn shop where you can ask someone to watch you knit and help you fine-tune your technique?

Thank you, Knotted. I'm finding a couple of references online and want to get the video to show for me at one of them, dang it! The text/graphic illustrations aren't doing the job for me -- I want to see this norwegian thing in action!

I have recently started attending classes and talked with the teaching staff about learning the cables and bobbles and such. At this point I seem to have thrown them-who-I've-found for a bit of a loop with my left handedness -- and maybe even my desire to use texture in my knitting! I think sometimes stuff has to be done in reverse or something to make the patterns come out the way they're supposed to. I may have to find some other teachers too, but what I think might need is like "lefty conversions" or something on that order!

Karen in Boise

[mimitabby]

I'm lefty too, what's the problem? everything's just backwards, isn't it?

(in crochet, i guess it doesn't matter)

[Kano]

I'm lefty too, what's the problem? everything's just backwards, isn't it?

(in crochet, i guess it doesn't matter)

It's been a long time since I bothered trying anything other than the really basic stuff, Mimi -- when cables come out upside down, backwards, and who knows what else, it's a little discouraging!

I want to try again, but I want to have some hope of success...

Karen in Boise