Woah. That's COOL.

[linaelyn]

I just found this site with not only a page of definitions, but video tutorials of stitches! It may be utterly below the level of most knitters here, but I'm enough of a beginner to be astounded by some of the visual definitions of things.

(confessions of a newbie: f'rinstance, I've been ignoring it when a pattern says "ssk" and just carrying on as if that instruction wasn't even there. Then, when my pattern gets a little off, I'll k2tog to make the numbers match up again. it works if you're felting it anyway.)

Comments

[afuna]

knittinghelp.com is wonderful. I learned knitting from there, and the videos made so many things clear *g*.

(And hi, I'm pretty much a newbie knitter myself *grin*)

[linaelyn]

Glad to read that I'm not the only newbie here! Thanks.

[beachlass]

My two cents: if you really can't cope with SSK, which is a decrease stitch - you can do a K2Tog instead. Your decrease will slant the wrong way, but will be in the right place.

[kareila]

I've also read that SKP has the same slant as SSK, and it's a little easier for me to remember: slip a stitch, knit a stitch, and pass the slipped stitch over.

[linaelyn]

Thanks! Good idea there. As I said to beachlass above, the tutorial video finally was the thing I needed to understand how to really make SSK work for me.

I might actually be getting good enough at this that I can justify uploading a knitting icon!

[aquaeri]

Yep, those are two different ways to get the same result.

[linaelyn]

Well, I used to be unable to cope with SSK, but with the tutorial video, I was able to figure out how! Yay!

[pensnest]

I've done a lot of knitting, but almost all of it with Kaffe Fassett patterns which do lots of fun stuff with colours and are really, really basic otherwise. So I shall peer at these demos with great interest.

[feywood]

I've been knitting for a while now and I still grab their glossary every so often. It's an amazing site.

[etrangerici]

YOU. SO. ROCK.

This is exactly what I needed when last I attempted knitting and (d'oh) it never occurred to me to check the web. I've shelved any interest in going back to knitting because I remember the frustration of not being able to decipher the patterns and never having anyone translate or explain it for me.

This is awesome and I am thrilled that you posted it.