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Hello! My aim with this blog is to share useful tips and discoveries I make as I learn to knit. I’m a guy, so I urge guys to knit and everyone to nudge the men they know to learn to knit.

And to support that, especially for anyone who thinks knitting is hard, please try the Portuguese knitting method. It’s easy to master and fast. When I get going I can do a stitch a second. I have a few posts here about it under Techniques, but no basic instructions, so check out the youtube videos.

Again, Portuguese style knitting is VERY easy to learn. It’s easy to control the yarn, and purling is so easy it’s a sin. Read the rest of this entry »

I just ordered some needles from China – a couple 15 pc sets of circs in 2 lengths, a set of 15 bamboo needles and a set of ten crochet hooks. It was a great buy. I just hope the quality is good. If not, I could them myself. I can smooth, sand, refinish or reshape if I need to, but it may end up being a lot of labor I don’t need.

I plan to use that also in a test to see if I can give them crochet tips myself, as I want to experiment with hook knitting. I tried it with some crochet hooks a few days ago and it was quite easy to knit that way. It was mentioned that they use hooked knitting needles in Portugal and elsewhere, so this may come in handy.