How do you knit?

Question

I Just keep looking at all my books posters and loads of websites and videos and STILL don't know. :(

Please help

Answer 1

With great difficulty!!!  The best thing to do is ask a sweet old lady to show you...she'd absolutely love it and you'd get some good teaching. Once you've learnt how to knit, you'll have to follow patterns, which is very complicated in my opinion! In my teens I spent a few months trying to knit a jumper; it ended up being a drinks coaster! I've still got it 16 years later!

Answer 2

Go to a knitting/yarn store.  They will be more than happy to show you and/or sign you up for a class.  The more knitters out there, the more yarn they will be selling.You really need     'hands on' help.  Once you got that it's a breeze and so fun!!!

Answer 3

I use the Knifty Knitter....it's a round loom and very easy to do. I have even taught children as young as 8 to knit. Available at Michael's , AC Moore ,Hobby Lobby , Jo Ann's. I can make a 6 ft long scarf in 6 hours ;)))

Answer 4

Once you have cast-on, just keep going till you run out of wool.

Answer 5

This is how I learned.  In Over Through and Off.  That is the formula for the action with the wool and the needles.  Really, you need someone to show you.  

There must be some older ladies near to where you live who would be delighted to show you. Ask around.

If you lived near me you could pop round for a lesson. lol

Answer 6

If you can't understand from a video, you will really need to find someone that knows how.  Do you have a local senior center or retirement home?  Most people that know how will have no problem teaching you and although it looks hard it is not really.

Answer 7

If you live in Worcestershire, I could show you.  I taught my grandchildren when they were little.

I had to knit my socks and gloves for school during the War years and, of course, was busy knitting when I had a baby on the way and school jumpers and cardigans to make later.

If there is a wool shop near you, the proprietors would be only too happy to show you, too.  The more people who can knit, the more wool they sell!!

Answer 8

Ask a granny :-)

Answer 9

Buy a knitting machine :) If all else fails i always remember my mum saying "in, round, through and off. Not that it helps much hey :)

Answer 10

You get some knitting sticks and some wool and sort of weave the wool together with the sticks.

Or, you use a knitting machine.