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Meet Angie
I started asking my mother to teach me to knit when I was eight years old, but no one in our family knew how to knit. After several years of asking, in desperation, Mom told me to go ask Dad to teach me to crochet.
I finally learned to knit at a slumber party when I was sixteen years old. When I found out how seemingly simple it was, I was hooked.
My first sweater fit flawlessly. The second sweater, intended for me, fit my father who was not enthusiastic about wearing pink. However, when oversized sweaters became the rage, I was in business!
Knitting had become a major part of my life.
When I was twelve, a distant relative showed my parents a knitting machine he had just acquired. I was nearly fifty when I purchased my first knitting machine, a computerized Brother. As I developed expertise in this machine, I eventually became Chair of the Machine Knitting Committee for The Knitting Guild of America.
By now, my children were entering college and a paying job became necessary. I had been teaching hand knitting at a local shop, so I joined the working staff there and worked my way into becoming the full time manager.
I was surrounded by women who had been knitting for twenty to forty years. All excellent knitters who were able to fix some basic mistakes yet were completely confused by others. This was because they did not really understand the knitted fabric. Another machine knitter and myself became the go to persons for these repairs.
Eventually the owner wanted a website. It was at that point that I began to develop my webmaster skills and put the shop on line. The shop owner recently retired and closed that shop and the website.
KnitAid is a compilation of my life long association with both knitting and computers. KnitAid is a site that can teach you to knit but hopefully will aid you in understanding the fabric you are creating. This understanding will help you fix more mistakes and aid you in being a better knitter.
Picture taken by friend in 2005. Hat pattern from A Gathering of Lace by Meg Swanson; Picture Hat pattern designed by Katherine Misegades; discontinued Rowan yarn called Linen Drape.
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Lesson Outline
These are questions, comments, needs, and concerns often made by someone wanting to sign up for beginning knitting lessons.
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.
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 are a way of expanding your knowledge of knitting and purling in the same row. Lesson Five adds tehniques that are commonly used in actually making a garment like shoulder shaping and joining shoulders.
Finally Lesson Six reviews assumptions that pattern designers assume the knitter knows. Helpful tips in chosing a pattern, needle and yarn recommendations, altering patterns are a few of the techniquws covered.
So, where are the promised lessons to fix mistakes?
It is generally assumed in the knitting world that every knitting technique actually started as a mistake. ?
A lifetime of watching accomplished knitters struggle with understanding the fabric they are creating.
While the lesson content remained m
