[MR] A&S: A knitting question

[Joshua Thomas]

> Is knitting something someone with EXTREMELY limited motion in one hand 
> can
> do?


Depends on which hand. The left hand is almost completely passive when it 
comes to knitting. The left-hand needle is just used to hold all previous 
rows' stitches to knit the new row on with the right. The left hand is 
pretty stationary during the actual process of knitting. The right hand does 
all the work, which includes the knitting and using a few fingers to keep 
yarn tension. The right hand's needle you actually form the stitches with, 
thus to be proficent you need a medium to full range of motion in the right 
hand, as the process can take some precision at first to master.

Hope this helps,
YIS
Lord Tristan de Brailesford