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Understanding Eastern Knitting and Western Knitting Styles and Knitting Faster
January 6, 2012 | 
Author Understanding Eastern Knitting and Western Knitting Styles and Knitting Fast
In this article I will explain the difference between the Eastern and Western styles of knitting and how not to get confused. There will be some instruction in how to do them, yet while this is not so much a knitting lesson, what you learn here may be of great use to the beginner or transitioner. Read the rest of this entry »
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Stranded, Multi-Color or Fair Isle Knitting Portuguese Style
Wow! I just experimented with doing two-color, fair isle knitting with the Portuguese style and it works great! Easier than I thought. I’ve seen Andrea Wong’s sock video where she demonstrates fair isle knitting on socks, but she does the second color English style, which I don’t like and it would just slow me down. If you are good at English then that might work, but you know me…
I tried it with my Portuguese knitting pendant that I invented, but with two hooks, and it worked great. No slowdown, just as fast as if I were doing just the one strand Portuguese style, and I found it was as easy to do right side and wrong side. I had seen another video on fair isle for socks using two knitting pins, but I think it was also socks and was done wrong side only…? I was afraid the yarn would tangle or something because i was turning the work but it took care of itself and I had no problems.
Now I need a fair isle project. I think I’ll go for a vest of some sort.
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Tags: Andrea Wong, fair isle, knitting pendant, Portuguese Knitting, two-color, two-strand knitting | 
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Interesting Fact about Andrea and Andreea
Andrea Wong is known for her gread DVDs on the Portuguese style of knitting and travels to teach it as well. I did a wikipedia search for the phrase “portuguese knitting” and got a surprise. In the list of results was an entry for the word “andrea”, stating that in the Romanian language it actually means “knitting needle”! How about that. The Romanian version of the name Andrea is spelled “Andreea” so as to distinguish it, but it doesn’t mean knitting needle in that spelling.
Small world of words.
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