These are questions, comments, needs, and concerns often made by
These are questions, comments, needs, and concerns often made by someone wanting to sign up for beginning knitting lessons.Because the lessons were based in a yarn shop, yarn and needle selection were generally done at sign up or immediately before the first lesson.
When I started teaching knitting lessons for a local yarn shop, I was given an outline used by the previous teacher and was instructed to follow her general course outline. The following six lessons are a result of her notes as well as fifteen years of teaching beginners how to knit.
The first three lessons should be gone through in the order presented. Each new skill builds on the previous lessons and is a logical progression from learning to knit, then to purl, and finally to knit and purl in the same row. Learning to "read your knitting" starts here.
Each two hour session started with a review of any knitting that had been done since the last lesson. Mistakes and questions were answered before the current lesson started. As knitting skills increased, the questions became more wide ranging. If these questions touched on a future topic, that lesson was offered immediately. As a consequence, the last three lessons rarely went exactly as outlined here and can be done in any order that suits your needs.
Cables of Lesson 4 are a way of expanding your knowledge of knitting and purling in the same row and more of "reading your knitting".
Lesson Five adds tehniques that are commonly used in actually making a garment such as shoulder shaping and joining shoulders, picking up stitches.
Finally Lesson Six reviews what pattern designers assume the knitter knows. Helpful tips in chosing a pattern, needle and yarn recommendations, altering patterns are a few of the techniques covered.
So, where are the promised lessons to fix mistakes? Start in the Knit Lesson section first. Searching the technique section for "mistakes" will help you locate other specific articles.
It is generally assumed in the knitting world that every knitting technique actually started as a mistake. The basic structure of lace is holes made by yarn overs which is covered in Hole in Knitting and Yarn Over.
I worked for many years with a grouo of really accomplished knitters. Yet when knit repairs arrived at the shop, most of those knitters had no idea how to proceed in fixing the knit.
