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[killing_rose]

So I am teaching youngest roommate to knit.

He's 18. This leads to moments like:

"I have figured out that the purls are whoops up and knits are whoops down." I don't know what whoops are (rhyming with swoop), but it work for him.

He has a flight today. As one does, we went over his project. Him, after grumbling that knit stitch is The Worst, "I hope I get seated next to a kind grandmother. Who knows how to knit."

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[sporky_rat]

I, too, learned m1 by mistake very quickly.

I found that knitting helped my dyslexia-with-numbers a lot but I still have trouble with reading lace patterns. Something about reading the / and the \ gets me.

Good luck, youngest roommate!

[killing_rose]

Hm. Point. I need to figure out if written or charted is going to work best with him. (However, I've got him doing 2x1 rib for the foreseeable future, so we've got some time on that.) Personally, I love written. I never seem to get written patterns anymore.

Of course, given that he's got to do everything backward (I do portuguese, and there is no way in hell I remember not-portuguese due to the whole goldfish brain due to medications and illnesses, so he's now doing that), I'm figuring I'm going to get protests either way. Hence his whining over knit and not purl.