Glad you found it. We would love to see a photo when you finish. Have fun with this lovely gift for your wife.
New here!! I’m a self/YouTube taught knitter, and so excited to find this forum!!
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Welcome to KnittingHelp!
We’re glad you found us too. Online videos have made it so much easier to visualize techniques and knitting steps. Thank you for joining.
Hi.
I’m Sue have recently started knitting after a 30 year break. Am currently knitting a yoked sweater in icelandic wool and am having great difficulty understanding the pattern instructions for the hood I will be begging for help once I learn to navigate the forum.
Welcome Sue3! That sounds like a good question to come. When we all put our minds to it, we can usually figure out a pattern. You only need to post the question once in one of the forum sections, How To, Pattern Central or General Knitting. Thank you for joining us.
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Looking forward to perusing the site for help with patterns that are not always clear. I’m a long time knitter and love to knit children’s sweaters in Aran cable designs. Right now I am working on Sigil by Alice Starmore and finding her instructions less than clear. I am going to take another run at it tomorrow. Might see some questions pop up if I cannot figure it out.
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Welcome to the forum!
Children’s sweaters are so much fun to knit. All the interesting bits and a smaller size than the adults. Alice Starmore patterns can be challenging but they are beautiful. We’ll be happy to try to figure out the answers to any questions.
hi, I’m Carole new here. Not new to knitting, but mostly doing other crafts last 30+ years with the sporadic Knitted afgan and such.
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Hello, my name is Sophie.
I can’t knit, although I have tried many times. The needles just don’t agree with me very well so I stuck to crochet, which I am very good at. However, recently I have learned how to knook! Knooking is a mix between crochet and knitting (knitting + hooking = knooking). You basically create knitwork with a special crochet hook and a long line to hold your stitches. I can finally create knitted pieces now and I am so happy! I found this site and am hoping to learn more and explore knitwork as I learn to adjust my skills. Curious to see what I can find here.
Welcome to the forum, Elouiselle!
Sounds fascinating. We’re happy to have you and your ability with this technique on KH. Is it similar to Tunisian crochet?
Thanks for joining us.
I believe you can use a tunisian hook if you can attach a cable, but I have not tested this yet. What I do know is that you can imitate knitwork with tunisian crochet but it is different in essence and the fabric is thicker than if you truly knit it. You also need to use a bigger hook size than if you were to use a knooking needle or knitting needles if you plan on using the tunisian knit stitch.
How knooking works is practically the same as knitting. Only you have one hook with an eye at the end, like a sewing needle. You attach a long strand of yarn to the eye which holds your stitches, similar to the cable you have on circular knitting needles. To start up you make a chain and work your way back through each chain, pulling up loops to the amount of stitches you want on your hook. Then you pull your hook forward, out of your work, and you leave the stitches on your extra strand of yarn. You turn your work and then you can knit (the yarn strand functions as the second needle). It basically works the same for the knit stitch and the purl stitch except you use the hook to pull your loops through. Best part is: you can’t drop any stitches.
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This sounds very interesting and a clever technique. I can’t wait to see something you’ve made with this, and a pic of the needle/hook/knock.
I’d love to see pictures of your work! That sounds fascinating.
Here’s an article about knooking. Warning: she’s not really a fan, but it does show / describe the technique.
Hi Pat here just found this site and hope I can get some help when needed. Thanks
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Welcome, Pat! There is help available here, pretty much 24/7. And I’ve learned a lot just by reading other people’s questions and the comprehensive answers given!
Hello I’m Christine, a nurse living in Johannesburg, South Africa. I started knitting when I was 4years old, I blew out 70 candles on my cake 3 months ago. I am an old and tried knitter that is facinated by the many variations and patterns readily available on the net. I set myself a challenge- get to know them! I have been trying out new ways of knitting, different cast on and bind off methods, edging, braid and icords, English, Continental (I’m a thrower) the beautiful wool, the fabulous array of knitting needles : DPN , circlular, interchangable… I am 14 months into my challenge, using each technique, wool type and gauge, all kinds of knitting needles to create beautiful, wearable and useable items for my grandkids and also many items gifted to charities for sale or for distribution where needed.
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Welcome Christine! Lovely to have you here!
Thanks NayPo. I have been reading the forum, what a wealth of information and FRIENDLINESS. xx 
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Hail and well met! I am relatively new to knitting (only about a year. Have made a few scarves and sweaters) and am now getting to the meaty fun stuff. Signed up because I have learned that I am now having more and more questions and fewer people in my life who actually know knitting 
Thank you for having me and I look forward to learning so much from this welcoming and warm community.
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