Despite what you might assume from the title of today’s post, I am not in a funk. The backwards I am going is with my knitting and for something completely different I am going to post a little video today. Please excuse the state of my hands – they are actually improving a lot!
The video is now captioned!!, and what I am showing you is the technique for knitting backwards rather than turning your work to purl. This is really useful for bobbles as you increase one stitch to five, work on those five stitches repeatedly to create three mini rows and then decrease back down to one stitch.
For some reason the focus isn’t as clear as it was in iMovie – but that may be something to do with my export settings. As this is the first video I have uploaded to my blog I am accepting that it won’t be perfect (this is quite a big deal for me in itself) and remembering that this is all a learning curve. Future ones will, I’m sure, be better!
Why didn’t I have time to caption the video earlier? Well, my sister-in-law and niece are visiting from the other end of the country and we are going to spend the next few days with them. This is exciting as it is the first time my niece has been to Wales so we get to show her some of our favourite bits! I just hope the threatening grey clouds don’t do much more than threaten!
The courgettes are gorgeous, the potatoes need to be harvested, there are raspberries to be picked and roses to deadhead. So much to do and so little time! But our MKAL continues apace and I can hardly believe that the last part will be released in three days time. When we started it felt like Into the Vortex would be going on forever, but the past seven weeks have flown by. A little update showing you two versions of Part Five:
That’s all I have time for right now, so I will love you and leave you.
Stay safe & keep knitting, K x
I love your posts/ blogs . I am not sure what the difference is but they are very enjoyable to read and watch.
You have inspired to have a go at growing a few veg next year. Just having flowers and bushes seems such a waste of land in this day and age. Xxxxx
Thank you! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the posts (the individual posts form the overall blog – short for web-log). I definitely recommend growing some veg next year – it’s so satisfying 😊
Thank you for this – a really clear demonstration. I have read about knitting backwards and struggled to imagine it. I shall try it out at the next opportunity.
Thank you Susan! It’s great to know it was a clear demo. Good luck with trying it out yourself – as with anything it gets easier with practice!