Online videos to help you learn the basics of knitting

just_thrifty

Came across this site- Woolandthegang- and it has a great selection of short videos to teach the basics of knitting, as well as different types of knitting stitches.

http://uk.woolandthegang.com/en/video.php?rubrique=13&srubrique=45&PHPSESSID=bd293102bf98a68ea851d584e8d9e684


Well, staying in knitting is the new going out, everyone knows that!

Pip26

Ha - thanks!, I've always wanted to know how to knit. My nan could knit and crochet but my mum could only knit string dish clothes :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I had one of those French knitting doll things but you could never really do much with the thin thing you produced ...... trouble is, the older I get, the more complicated it seems to get. i don't how people knit/count and do other things at the same time.

Carolyn_WATG

Dear Just Thrifty,
We at Wool And The Gang are super happy to hear that you're recommending our online video tutorials. I will pass your positive feedback on to Aurelie and Chloe who spent many long hours under in front of the camera! I wonder if Pip26 has successfully cast on yet?
Bon knitting,
Carolyn, WATG

Pip26

We'll (or rather you!) might produce a 'knitting nation' yet!!!!

I'd love to see a new born in the family in something I'd made or maybe work on a really 'different' jumper for myself.

Also just think its nice if children are shown how to do this sort of thing nowadays.

Thanks Wool & The Gang and just thrifty.

Aurelie & Chloe have put in hours of hard work for others to benefit from.

just_thrifty

Carolyn_WATG wrote: »

Dear Just Thrifty,
We at Wool And The Gang are super happy to hear that you're recommending our online video tutorials. I will pass your positive feedback on to Aurelie and Chloe who spent many long hours under in front of the camera! I wonder if Pip26 has successfully cast on yet?
Bon knitting,
Carolyn, WATG

Thanks Carolyn! The tutorials are excellent- Aurelie and Chloe have done a great job making them. With knitting you really need to see it being done to learn, and so few people seem to have been taught to knit these days (sound like my granny!). Pip's going to be clicking away in no time-she might even send you a sample of her handiwork and you can post it on your site as an example of how successful your tutorials are!

Pip26

just_thrifty wrote: »

Pip's going to be clicking away in no time-she might even send you a sample of her handiwork and you can post it on your site as an example of how successful your tutorials are!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

just_thrifty

Pip, are you trying to tell us something?!!! :rotfl:

Thought at first you were meaning you had a life, so you didn't need to stay in knitting, but I googled 'onceuponalife.com' :eek::rotfl:

Pip26

What was it?

Something weird happened - I put a row of little knitting smilies on!!!!!!! (thought I was quite clever!!)

Just came back to read your reply and saw they had changed into the other stuff!!!!

Have deleted the life stuff but didn't dare google to see what it was after seeing your :eek:

My mind is now boggling like mad.

I hope the Wool Gang didn't see it!!!!!! :eek:


......... actually on second thoughts I might not want to know what it was, ohhhhhh i hope if its strange not many people saw it !!!! - I might have to change my name.

Pip26

Phewf ..... glad to find out is mother and baby site .... sneaky way to advertise though through morphing smilies ... !!!!!

Anyway back to the original post - yes, is great site to learn knitting from. May manage to get me clacking away yet!!!!

redagila

Just had to share this with you all. Was in France on holiday last month & went to a local village fete. They had teams playing various games & my husband was invited to join one team who needed another player - he had to shoot for them. I was then invited to join the knitting competition for a team. Just like at the guillotine - 10 of us sitting on 2 benches, knitting as fast as we could - 30 stitches in plain stitch for 2 sessions of 15 minutes each. I haven't knitted for a number of years but managed to finish joint first- couldn't let the French beat me!
We had quite an audience and they were fascinated by the way I knitted because it was totally different to any of them. A really fun event and such friendly people - we shall certainly go again if we are there at the same time another year.

just_thrifty

Well done redagila! That's a great story. Madame Defarge eat your heart out. The knitting technique is really different on the continent, isn't it? Don't know if it varies from country to country, but a German friend showed me her method- was much quicker than mine!