Jofrog is Knitfrog!
October 21 2004
Have you ever taught someone how to knit; I'm sure that almost everyone out there has. I am currently teaching two classes. One at the elementary school with five 8-10 year olds, and one at my LYS with eight adults.
Last night was the second of a four week advanced begining class at my LYS and I had a late addition into my class, Janette. Janette is a 45 year old blind woman. Janette is incredible!
She came into the store two days ago asking if we were willing to work with her and teach her how to knit. She knows the basics: casting on, knitting, purling, but needs help with some more advanced things: picking up stitches, cabling, measuring gauge. She said that no one was willing to challenge her and she was bored with the low complexity projects that she was given.
I sat down and got her started on her swatch, taught her the cable cast on rather than the long tail cast on, and let her go. Four inches of knitting later I showed her how she could use the "Knit Check" to measure her gauge by feeling the stitches in the little two inch window, (who knew that could ever be so useful), and now she is well on her way to having a completed baby sweater. She, along with the rest of the class, will be working on the fronts of their sweaters this week!
There is nothing this woman can't learn, she learned to pick up dropped stitches and how to unknit last night by me telling someone else by her. She kept thanking me for having patience with her, but really I think that she will be one of the best students I've ever had. I'm very happy to have her in my class. Teaching the Blind to Knit
