No wonder in many of the bags of yarn I buy at the thrift store there are obvious scarf projects done by beginners. Fifteen hundred minutes or twenty-five hours is way too long for a first project. When a person is just learning it’s going to take a minute or so for every five or six stitches. That’s a project that is somewhere around nine or ten thousand stitches. I’d watched many first-time knitters take on a scarf with ordinary worsted weight yarn on medium sized needles. ![]() That’s why every chapter and lesson has its own project that can be done within a couple or three hours, long enough to learn the skill but quick enough so that the project is done and the student can move on. The other thing was that in all the instructions, no one gave any real guidance about sorts of projects that would bring success quickly, and I know that for myself if I don’t have success pretty quickly, I get frustrated. ![]() Then as new people joined our blind knitter group, I started trying out my skill at explaining things is simple, straight forward language so that there couldn’t be any mistake what I meant. So, once I picked enough brains and did enough trial and error, I got the basic skills under my belt. How do you hold the needles? How do you control the yarn? What’s a stitch? Where do I set the ball of yarn to keep it under control? Oh, and what’s a ball of yarn? The stuff in the store looks more like a tube or a disk! Most people ask why I wrote it, and the simple answer is: Because when I started knitting around Labor Day of 2007, I couldn’t find a set of instructions or book that really spelled out each step in absolutely clear terms. I’m totally blind and have been since grade school. The first question you should be asking is: Are you blind or just another sighted author trying to teach us something. ![]() Once again, Crystal and Ana have really honored me by asking that I update my article about my book “The Touch of Yarn, Beginner Knitter’s Primer”, copyright 2009.
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