On Knitting Confessions:

I have a confession to make. Not a deep dark secret or anything like that. But it does cause me consternation. “I am a Continental knitter.” There I said it. And you can put those things down that you were getting ready to throw at me. Let me explain.

I started out as an English knitter. I knitted that way for years in fact. But some things got messed up in my head with the chemo treatments or maybe the seizures and I had to learn how to do some things over again. I was taking stock of the things I could do and knitting was one of them. So I moved on to relearn the other things all over again.

When I picked up my third knitting project after the cancer treatments I was having trouble half way into the thing when the new pattern made a change I couldn‘t understand. It was then realized I was now a Continental knitter. I had been knitting that way and I hadn’t realized it until then.

I tried to relearn to knit in the English fashion but after a few stitches I find myself back in Continental. I did give it a good long try. Weeks in fact. When that became too much of a frustration I hung my head and gave into being a convert.

The consternation comes from reading patterns. I still have trouble transferring some stitches and I can’t write a pattern of my own out in the English stitch way. Sorry but my brain just doesn’t work the way it used to. So that is why I haven’t been having my patterns here for you to try for yourself.

I am an English knitting drop out. A Continental knitter. And a failed pattern sharer. If anyone knows of a place I could get a conversion of stitches list out there. I’d be very grateful. (And so, I think, would be all the other closet Continental knitters out there too.)

I want to share but I’m not about to get a bad reputation for faulty patterns when I’ve messed up in converting them.

Thanks in advance, Lady Euphoria