My problem is, my knitting dates from the Ikea generation (I learnt to knit in 2004 from Debbie Stoller's Stitch and Bitch) so I'm accustomed to diagrams and pictures breaking it down. Zimmermann has tremendous insights but her writing style is so free wheeling, I never really got the whole how to make your own patterns at all (I have Knitting Without Tears). I know she goes on about knitting continental (no lie, if I had to learn to knit again, I'd knit continental, it seems fast, and I can do that, but I have no desire to reaquaint myself with a new sort of tension, whereas my tension is pretty good, and my stitches are relatively even as they are).
The book that helped me wrap my head around the notion of knitting sans pattern was Barbara Walker- who seems pretty humourless in print, lol.
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Read Zimmermann for the insights, I guess
Date: 2011-12-06 09:17 am (UTC)The book that helped me wrap my head around the notion of knitting sans pattern was Barbara Walker- who seems pretty humourless in print, lol.