Welcome to my Sunday knit blog!

I am starting with a series on taking the guesswork out of knitting. I hope you’ll enjoy it, and that you can get something out of it.

My next couple of posts will be dedicated to knit stitch construction, and reading and understanding stitches; just the stitches. This series is not aiming at deciphering complicated lace patterns, but maybe it will help you to get a step closer to doing that. For now, we are just looking at the basics.

Not knowing where you are in your project, not being able to tell the front from the back, and not being able to fix mistakes without ripping it all out is very frustrating, and takes the enjoyment out of knitting. That is why I recommend you learn to read your stitches. It might take a bit of time, but it is very rewarding once you got the hang of it.

The good news is: there are only two types of stitches, knit and purl. Everything else is a variation thereof. Consequently, knitting is a bit like binary computer programming; different combinations of 0 and 1 (or knit and purl stitches) result in different codes (or knitting patterns). In a way, every knitting pattern is a binary matrix. How exciting is that?

I hope I caught your attention, and I will see you back here next time, when we get stuck into it!

Happy knitting!

Your Crafty Geo, Eva