Comments on: Stupid Question?

By: vanessa

vanessa — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:22:16 +0000

another suggestion i would give a new knitter is to pick a smooth yarn. one of my friends was just starting and the lys sold her a boucle. it was impossible for her to see the stitches.

as for color, i would suggest picking a color that goes with her wardrobe.

By: lucia

lucia — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:25:23 +0000

Yes. A smooth yarn nicely twisted yarn would be excellent.

Heck, I’d also suggest fairly economical and worsted weight or a little heavier! Very thick needles can be difficult to handle, very fine yarn will take forever.

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:45:34 +0000

I saw that Berroco email question and was happy to see it. I teach beginners and the first thing I instruct them is which color they should pick. Nothing will frustrate you faster than not being able to see what’s going on.

Berroco is a very generous company, they have sent me 16 skeins of their Foliage along with a pattern booklet and 2 sets of the Handeze gloves for door prizes for the retreat I am planning. They are tops in my book!

By: lucia

lucia — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:52:21 +0000

Thanks for commenting. I’m also always glad to see beginner questions answered. I’m glad Berroco does, and I bet people will love the door prizes!

By: bevin

bevin — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:10:11 +0000

Great answer to that question!! Of course, I relearned to knit double stranding patons twister and moda dea dream on giant needles, but that’s because it forgave my mistakes. When I used a worsted light grey to knit a dog sweater… that’s when I really learned to knit.

Of course, for three months I was twisting my stitches but oh well!

Brian and I are going to work on trackbacking but we’ve both been bogged down at work with no time to do anything blog related but the knitting part at night!