I was born in Brazil and came to this country in 1991. Since then I’ve had two children and have been knitting avidly. I started teaching knitting in a local shop 5 years ago and now I travel this country and Canada doing what I love the most!
I was born in Brazil and came to this country in 1991. Since then I’ve had two children and have been knitting avidly. I started teaching knitting in a local shop 5 years ago and now I travel this country and Canada doing what I love the most!
I love this way of knitting. I am having problems with 2 stiches . k-b and p-b ( knit in back and pearl in back). That does not seem to be on your DVD. Do you have a DVD that covers stich techniques?
Dear Sharon,
I sent you an email as well today. Please refer to my DVD “The Portuguese Style of Knitting” where I show the SSK decrease. It’s just like I knit in the back.
To purl in the back will be a suggestion for my next DVD but if you cannot figure it out, please let me know and I will try to call you and explain to you.
Thank you,
Andrea
I wondered the same thing and tried just as you suggested to Sharon. However, it was difficult to insert the needle without snagging. The pattern called for 230 stitches done this way.
What I did was turn the work to RS, in my case as I was doing k-b on the wrong side to make a turned hymn, and then purled in the Portuguese way left-handed. Strange at first but in about 10 stitches I was moving right along.
I’m Portuguese, born in the Azores, and have been knitting with the yarn around my neck all my life. My grandmother and mother taught me to knit when I was a child. I get lots of comments from people who see me knit and are unaware of this style of knitting. Even though I can knit using the American style, I perfer the Portuguese Style since my stitches are much more even and uniform ,It’s so much easier to keep a steady tension in the yarn.
It’s a good style of knitting to learn!
Hi there. I was just looking up portuguese knitting in wikipedia and found the word andrea in the search results because of language origins of the name, so I followed the link and found this: “In Romania Andreea is a feminine name and it is written with an extra “e” to avoid confusion with the Romanian word “andrea” meaning knitting needle.” How about that!
Hi Eric! Thank you so much for letting me know. I am very happy to learn that! I will copy and paste your comment as a post if you don’t mind.
Andrea