I want to be a stereotype!
 

Knitting preggo lady!

The thing is I can't knit! I tried but I can't understand any books or YouTube vids I am clueless. Can someone help?

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Oh, I wish I could come visit you with my daughters, and they could help you learn! lol I know that's not helpful. :bag I do truly wish we could, though. :giggle

I think it's great you want to knit! I bet someone here will have good ideas for you. I'm just a newbie, but knitting is fun. :rockon

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That would be neat. Seems everyone has a piece of the puzzle I just can't get my head around! I tried crochet but ended up either a very long string coz I couldn't figure out how to get to the next line :giggle

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I can knit a bit but not crochet. Maybe we should meet up for 'knowledge exchange', lol!

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can you find someone irl who knits? many librarys have knitting classes too. it did help me to see it in person first, so that later when i watched the youtube videos they made more sense to me.

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If you have a wool shop locally, they often run, or know of, classes.

Some people find they learn better from books rather than videos. I do great with youtube but cant understand books :giggle. The downside is that most of the youtube tutorials are from the US, so I crochet in American :giggle which is fine, as most of the patterns I use are american too. It's just tricky when I'm talking to other UK crafters and they're all :hunh or I'm using a pattern I picked up locally.

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I am trying to teach myself knitting too. I have found knittinghelp.com very useful. I've tried a few books, but I do better with the videos. Something that helps me is watching lots of different videos if I am having trouble seeing something, I just go to youtube and type in what I am having trouble with and see what pops up.

I am still a big newbie, but I am having fun making dishcloths and practicing stitches.

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here are links to knitting help. they were are usually my go to videos, so maybe these will help?

Getting started for beginners set of videos

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I'm a crochet-er...and guessing you are from some of the other comments...

:scratch I'm utterly flabbergasted at knitting. I've been told that it can be hard to do both (but that could just be people be kind to my difficulties :giggle )

I've found a ton of cute baby patterns in crochet--I'd be happy to share some if that would be helpful :)

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*rubs hands together, chortles* Another soon-to-be-knitter!!! :giggle

Seriously, I love knittinghelp.com - but another great resource that I stumbled across is http://knitfreedom.com/learn-to-knit

Liat makes very clear, very easy-to-follow videos - this is her career, so they aren't all free, but the learn-to-knit one is.

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If you have crocheted before, you definitely should try knitting continental-style (left hand holds the yarn instead of right). It seems way more natural to me since that is the way I normally hold the yarn for crochet, made it a lot easier. I think the first battle of knitting is just getting the coordination down for it which IME takes some practice.

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Me a crotchet-er :no a failed one? :yes

Continental style would that be European? If so that suits me perfectly.

Thank you all for the resources and encouragement now to find where I stashed my needles!

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:bag Sorry I misunderstood :(

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:cheer You can do it, you can do it!!!

(We are all such enablers!)

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When I learned I did two things - went to my local yarn store and got irl help AND got a kids book on knitting....it was just my speed.:shifty

It's been nice to go into the store and get help with projects as the years have gone by. :)