[MR] A&S: A knitting question

[Brian Pfeifer]

My wife pointed out the knitty coffee shop, http://www.knitty.com. The 
coffee shop is the message boarrd on the website and is an excellent 
comunity resource for knitters. If you post a message there, you will likely 
receive comments, encouragement, and advice from knitters with similar 
issues.

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Brian J. Pfeifer		Baron Sylvanus Perrin
Network Security Engineer	Order of the Sea Stag
brian_pfeifer at hotmail.com	http://sabletower.homestead.com

>Message: 4
>Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 21:24:04 -0400
>From: Joshua Thomas <joshua.r.thomas at gmail.com>
>Subject: [MR] A&S: A knitting question
>To: phillip at mindless.com, 	"atlantia at atlantia.sca.org"
>	<Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
>Message-ID: <380f9a79050521182448232168 at mail.gmail.com>
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> > 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
>