Do you have a knitting reference book? I like Vogue Knitting, but there are many of them out there.
Many of the online references are also free or great, but I find it easier to work with a static picture I can have in my lap and compare my yarn to. Stuff like knitting in the front/back of stitches tends to be covered, as well as how to read pattern instructions. It might help to keep one on hand so you’re not constantly googling things.
There is a video on youtube of someone who knit ramen with chopsticks.
Kinda cool actually, though she only got two (short) rows)
Mainly I use KnittingHelp when I get stuck, I have trouble with the static pictures and written instructions, though less so now than when I first started. I just had trouble puzzling out what they meant or were doing.
Yes, but not with me and not for keeps. I’m not totally opposed to buying a knitting reference book, but I’m not in any hurry to either, and so I have checked several out of the library. One I really liked until I got mad at it*. One never impressed me–but that’s mostly my fault for not realizing until I got it home that mostly it’s a respository of boring, ugly garments which require way to much stitching to make worthwhile.
*I should give it another chance, but it seems to me that it’s a reasonable book for that really beginner bit, and reasonable for say, showing how to do a particular stitch, or various finishing stitches, but there seems to be a gap in the information it provides which is approximately where I am right now. Or maybe not. Last night, it just was almost as far across my apartment as it could be when I was studying the pattern I quoted from in the OP.
I’ll have to check that out.
Seriously, Youtube is a good how-to source for certain techniques. Want to see how to “turn a heel”? It’s there. There’s a video of someone making “Fetching” from Knitty on there. For any knitter who wants to see rather than hear how to do something, try it; it may be there. That reminds me, I’ll have to suggest it to my sister who can’t grasp “yarn over”.
Incidentally, thanks at least in part to the glossary of terms acquired (I think) by a link someone provided above, I did manage to knit a bobble last night. It’s still funny looking, but I managed the knitting into the same stitch thing well enough to make me believe that I can manage to knit the sweater I bought the pattern for if I want to badly enough.
Whether I want to badly enough is undetermined, in part because I’m sort of feeling inspired to dig out my latest major counted cross stitch project and do the last bits of it–it shouldn’t take long on the one hand, but figuring out for sure which pieces aren’t backstitched that need to be could make me crazy.