Diva2Knit
Saint John, Canada
I love to knit. Idle hands are the devils workshop my Grandmother used to say. I don't remember learning to knit. I spent hours with Grammie growing up and was always fascinated by her hands as she knit and crocheted. I only ever wore mittens that she knit for me. Somehow they were always warmer. She had the patience to crochet fine lace, tablecloths and granny square blankets. When I use my hands to knit and crochet I can still feel her hands guiding my hands with each stitch.
I love radical knitting. Using old patterns with updated hand dyed small batch yarns. I support my LYS and local yarn suppliers.
Knitting provides a link to my past with a link to the future as I create for my children and their children.
- Knitting23 Skills
Knitting: Over 50 years
23 Skills
- Cast on & cast off
- Knit and purl stitches
- Simple increase & decrease
- Picking up stitches
- Lace knitting
- Knitting in the round
- Turn a heel
- I-cord
- Double knitting
- Three needle cast off
- Ribbed
- Short rows
- Garter
- Kitchener
- Stocking
- Slipped stitches
- Cables
- Provisional cast on
- Fair Isle
- Stranded knitting
- Intarsia
- Tubular cast on/off
- Entrelac
