Still working on my big rainbow blanket. I feel like I have always knitted this and will always be knitting it... @knitting

@RandomYarning @knitting Simply stunning. A friend of mine and I have been talking about learning to knit. How long have you been doing this?

@knitting @likewise @RandomYarning if you are left handed, learning to knit can be challenging as 99% of tutorials and videos assume right-handedness. If not, the trick is to look at a few different learning paths until you find the one that works for you.

@rlux @knitting @likewise @RandomYarning Or you can do what my left-handed grandmother did, decide that knitting is not, in fact, a handed activity, and then learn the so-called right-handed method.

She nearly took my head off when I suggested knitting was a handed activity, and pointed out both hands have an important role to play. She knit for over 70 years. She taught right-handed me; we knit the same way ("cottage" or "factory" knitting).

@eyrea @rlux @knitting @likewise @RandomYarning This. This is how I taught knitting, too. It's an activity that uses both hands, and in the beginning, it can be awkward for any student. With practice, it gets smoother as your hands and brain figure out how to fine tune the movements to match your needs. That could mean anything from which hand is dominant to wrist mobility to arthritis.

@tarasovich @eyrea @rlux @knitting @likewise @RandomYarning I have always been slow and awkward at purl stitch, so recently when I should be doing a whole row of purl instead I have tended to keep the work in my right hand and knit it "left-handed" back onto the left needle.