Knitting is a fabulous way of making special hand-crafted items for you and your loved ones. As with all crafts you have to start somewhere and knitting is no exception; even with a simple garter stitch (all knit stitch back and forth across the needles) you can make some beautiful pieces with a little bit of imagination.
Once you have learned how to do the two basic stitches, knit stitch and purl stitch, you will be well on your way to being a successful knitter. With these two basic stitches and a wide variety of knitting needles and yarns you'll go from making a simple washcloth to socks and then sweaters with a professional appearance.
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Thanks Frank, I'll check out that article on male knitting.
Yes. In a land that made its living from wool and cotton, there were males who earned from the wool business. Before industrialization whole families were involved in textiles, weaving and making woolens at home, and men and women did the same tasks. How many men knitted I know not, but when they did it would be woolens for sale.
Just type in Bros and Rows for an article in The Huffington Post about the history of male knitting. In mediaeval England there were craft guilds of male knitters, something that I discovered in that article.
Deep down many males yearn to do peaceful, creative activities and be free from the expectations that you must be macho and competitive to be male, and knitting is one such activity that fits the bill very well.
@ frankbeswick, I didn't know that fact of men knitting in the 18th century. I believe it male knitters are starting to make a come back again though from the youtube videos and other blogs that I follow.
A related skill is darning,in which a patch in a woolen garment is mended with strands of wool. My mother darned many of our clothes.
Men knitting was not unusual, for in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries English males wove and knitted. There were very many men involved in textiles made of cotton and wool. Only as the nineteenth century progressed and sex roles become more stereotypical did knitting come to be seen as essentially female task.
I love that people all ages are knitting these days, and even men and boys! I am just finishing up an article on one of my blogs about how good knitting is for lowering blood pressure, and relieving stress.
Handmade yarn gifts are treasures to keep and pass down through generations.
We know that my grand-daughter liked the scarf as when my wife wears it, Sophie reaches out for it and takes it to play with.
Yes indeed. I love knitting I don't do fancy things but people like what I make. I made a scarf for Frank Beswick's wife and she loved it so much. Frank's granddaughter aged 18 months loved it too so I made her one for Christmas.
Every Fall/ Autumn I knit hats scarfs and mittens for my grand children to see them through winter.
Our mother taught me.
This article brings back memories! My mother was keen on knitting, and she made many clothes for us by using this skill, all made by hand without a knitting machine. For a not well off working class family, her knitting was a blessing, as it saved so much money that would otherwise have had to be spent on purchasing clothes.
Thanks for stopping by dustytoes, I love using the long tail cast on method and find it the easiest one to use.