Results of a 3-hour knitting 101 class.

Womp, womp!

I made a huge mistake before signing up for this class: after emailing to ask whether they teach lefty knitting, I was told it’s all the same (mistake: I already knew that it’s not) and “I’m a lefty, too!” I gave a shrug and a “welp…!” and signed up anyway.

Problem: I’m inclined to use each of the two hands I have in whatever ways are most optimal and efficient. 

The teacher insisted my struggle was because “you’re just nervous” and “you’re over-thinking it.” It’s simpler than that: I have one hand better-suited to be stationary and another hand that is well-suited to be doing the part requiring fine motor skills, and mine happen to be opposite of those of all you people. 

For full disclosure, I’m going to put it out there that I’m used to being that jerk who “gets it” first in any kind of class and winds up helping other people out, and I need to get into a rhythm before a lesson is over, or it’s lost. I was barely there by the end of the three hours and was mostly just glad that I learned how to bind off and weave the tails in before it was time to go.

I played some skee-ball for awhile and just got home and reversed what I learned — which the instructor refused to let me do in class (“you can’t reverse it / it’s the same for both hands”) —and I’m knitting and purling lefty with far more ease and speed.