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Posted by Mirjam Bruck-Cohen on January 22, 2007, 12:00 am
when i knit withj several colors i do use both hands andf thus also
bith knitting systems ,,
mirjam
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Posted by JCT on January 22, 2007, 11:26 am
Mirjam Bruck-Cohen wrote:
> when i knit withj several colors i do use both hands andf thus also
> bith knitting systems ,,
> mirjam
I have tried this but found my tension was pretty different - I
enrolled in a class
at the retreat next week that features two- handed color work to see if
I can get some help in doing
this evenly and improving my skill as it would certainly make things go
more
quickly. Probably the main need is for practice with attention to
tension.
Judy
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Posted by WoolyGooly on January 22, 2007, 2:29 pm
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:00:46 GMT, mirjam@actcom.co.il (Mirjam
Bruck-Cohen) wrote:
>when i knit withj several colors i do use both hands andf thus also
>bith knitting systems ,,
>mirjam
Hehehehehe! I saw the subject and thought "of COURSE I knit with two
hands!"
I can knit with up to 5 colors, slowly. I carry three on the left and
pick, two on the right and throw. I have to go slowly because my
picking and throwing tensions are quite different. Needless to say
this is a parlor trick, IMO. I will do 3-color knitting pretty
routinely though, especially for small projects like caps.
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Posted by Mary on January 22, 2007, 4:21 pm
I just drop the extra colors and pick up the new colors as they are
used, and don't have any issue at all with tension. The knitting also
goes very quickly for me. With multi-color knitting I keep the
various colors in their own mixing bowls on the floor spread around my
chair. So long as I am careful to turn the knitting properly the yarns
don't snarl at all. The only problem I have with the mixing-bowl
method is that the mixing bowl with the ecru or navy or whatever is
almost always exactly the very one I happen to need in the kitchen,
which means trading bowls, washing and drying the one I need in the
kitchen, etc. Also, the dog seems to resent having various mixing
bowls on "her" part of the floor by my chair! I can't imagine what
would happen if a cat lived at my house . . .
Mirjam Bruck-Cohen wrote:
> when i knit withj several colors i do use both hands andf thus also
> bith knitting systems ,,
> mirjam
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Posted by Vintage Purls on January 22, 2007, 6:47 pm
Mary wrote:
> I can't imagine what would happen if a cat lived at my house . . .
I can and it wouldn't be pretty. :)
VP
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