Backwards Knitting

Did you know you can knit backwards?

Me neither.

Then I decided to try entrelac knitting for a largish blanket. If you're unfamiliar with it, here's a video about entrelac, it's a bit lengthy but worth the watch, come back when you've finished watching.

Welcome back. Now, one thing you should have noticed when watching that video is that you have to turn your work every few stitches and work back along your stitches again. This works fine if you have a small or narrow project but what about if you were to decide to do a blanket? Naturally this is what I decided to do and it didn't take too long before I found out that as the blanket gets bigger turning it back and forth all the time becomes increasingly more awkward with every new row you work.

Fortunately I found another video about knitting in reverse, called "backwards knitting" or "mirror knitting". (A quick shout out here to VeryPink Knits, she has some wonderfully comprehensive technique videos on her YouTube Chanel and Website.) So it turned out that by taking on this one project I got to learn two new skills. Three if you count knitting and purling backwards separately. Nifty, eh?

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16C and cloudy. That's the official temperature at the airport at this time but it's much cooler where I actually am, about 10C. I don't think we're going to see the forecasted high of 20C, at least not at home.