tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23336194.post1797902378523866607..comments2024-02-09T09:43:16.687-08:00Comments on knit...knit...frog: Brother Amos is off the needles, and I get all philosophical about fussy knittingStellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05073753506202447996noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23336194.post-11309006590970241782007-11-21T15:53:00.000-08:002007-11-21T15:53:00.000-08:00Wooo, interesting posting! I LOVED looking at the...Wooo, interesting posting! I LOVED looking at the photos of your student's work. Impressive indeed! I am always amazed at the imagination displayed at shows such as this.<BR/><BR/>Brother Amos look very cosy! I, too, prefer the "closed" pattern better for socks than lacy patterns with "holes". The purpose of socks is to keep one's feet warm, isn't it?<BR/><BR/>Very good explanation of the "fussy" (your word - not mine! :) ) nature of your knitting. Where am I on the scale? Not quite at the top, yet, but not at the bottom either.<BR/><BR/>Enjoy your weekend in our little town. Maybe we will come across each other at the A & P show? Check out the FMG marquee - the spinners group will be there and so might I!KathyRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06232371230455661210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23336194.post-76632222890793559272007-11-21T13:52:00.000-08:002007-11-21T13:52:00.000-08:00hiyaI've only recently found your blog and am lovi...hiya<BR/>I've only recently found your blog and am loving it. Your thoughts on the continual quest for self improvement and how we learn to better our skills is fantastic, you have successfully put into words something I'm experiencing. For many years I was happy to be a make do kind of person, the arrogance of the ignorant ruled me in most of my crafts and hobbies. It has been the last couple of years - not at all coincidentally the time that I have been seriously knitting and being involved with online knitting communities - that I have started striving for improvement in all my crafts - baking, knitting, stitchwork etc and this then seeps into my everyday life as well. <BR/>Thanks again - and I'm totally jealous of the Dunedin fibre scene! Although I'm part of a knitting group - Auckland doesn't quite compare to what you describe.<BR/>cheers<BR/>gennyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23336194.post-46054699745961650402007-11-21T11:45:00.000-08:002007-11-21T11:45:00.000-08:00It's so much fun to see your students' work! It m...It's so much fun to see your students' work! It must be really gratifying for you to see it, too, and to know how much you put into helping them to get to the place where they can create that way.<BR/><BR/>I love your discussion of communities of practice. It's something I talk about a lot in some of my more anthropological classes (language use is all about communities of practice), and I think you're exactly right about the online community being part of this for so many knitters. I honestly think that some part of the reason why knitting "took" for me this last time I picked it up again (some four or more years ago) is partly because I was starting to find this community -- I didn't know anyone who knit really, so I had no reason to keep doing it all by myself when I was still new and awkward at it. But when you see what people can do, and read about how they worked to get there, and realize that you're not the only one who walks into a yarn shop and smells the yarn (love the vinegary smell of hand-dyes!), it's inspirational. And then you see how other people think about their knitting (like you, sharing your thought process), and it gets you started thinking about it in critical ways that you might never have otherwise done. Bingo -- community of practice, even when the members of one's own personal community are thousands of miles and a big ocean away!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for making me think about this in a new way, and please forgive my blathering :)Knitting Linguisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06289230533275408343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23336194.post-18887926984405259042007-11-21T08:41:00.000-08:002007-11-21T08:41:00.000-08:00Wow, I love seeing your students' work. Very impre...Wow, I love seeing your students' work. Very impressive! They look very professional. I can't sew at all and it seems amazing and magical to me that people can create CLOTHES! (I still feel that way a bit about knitting too.) It must be so exciting to see new designers emerge.<BR/><BR/>Your socks are beautiful. (Suddenly I find myself wanting a pair of warm red socks too!) I have a hard time seeing the details that you see, I am somewhere inbetween your two extremes -- dissatisfied when things don't look just right but not always sure how to improve them ... that's one reason I like reading your blog, to get scientific answers about questions such as which decrease is best. (I had never heard of the SYTK until today.)<BR/><BR/>I like your silverware example. Children remind me all the time of things that aren't taught but need to be known ...Hilaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928480462227207248noreply@blogger.com