I'm trying to make several lap robes for the wounded soldiers before Christmas. (See http://www.soldiersangels.org/)
In order to prevent boredom, I've been borrowing afghan books from other libraries in the system and finding cool new ideas. My first amazement is that there are so many books to choose from if I am willing to wait a week or so for them to come in. For example, "crochet" pulls up 96 pages of listings! "Knitting" has 195 pages!!! Wow!!
My second astonishment is that whenever I need to see the correct way to do a new stitch, be it crochet, knitting, or knitting loom, I can find numerous examples on http://www.youtube.com/. As I am a very visual person, it helps me tremendously to watch how something is done. I'm grateful to Georgiann's knitting group because they helped me get curious about knitting again. If you can't come to a knit or crochet meeting, youtube might help you.
My mother can hold her yarn while knitting so that she has only to move her index finger to make a stitch happen or to switch from knit to purl. I checked out a number of videos in youtube and found one with Asian subtitles (Chinese, Japanese, Korean...?) in which I saw nothing but hands, needles, and yarn. The left hand wrapped the yarn between her ring and pinkie fingers and over her index finger. It was one of those "Eureka" moments. Someone half a world away showed me something I wanted to know.
It's just astounding!
Happy crafting,
Kathi
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