Teaching Kids (or People) to Knit: Part 2 (Patreon)

Hello all, and greetings from a hotel room in Banff, Canada.  Joe and I have been driving (him) and knitting (me) our way across Canada for nine days now, and as I type this Joe is loading the car so we can make our way from Banff Alberta to Kamloops, British Columbia. 

We've been trying to keep the driving each day to seven hours or that range, so that each of us can work each evening - and so finally I've got this next video ready for you. Trying to upload it has been an epic like this trip and took two stops and a change of hotel rooms to try and get slightly better internet, but finally, here it is.  

A few key points: 

-be thoughtful about your timing. 

- explain the concept and demonstrate, finding and noting key landmarks. (How a stitch or loop sits on the needle, where the "door" is, etc. 

-skip casting on, binding off, and starting and ending a row at first. 

- knit to the centre of a row and let the learner have a go, doing whatever you need to do to make it work. (You tension, help support needles, etc.)

- several short sessions can be better than one long one. Let the learner decide when they are done for that session. 

-fix errors, add "courtesy rows" and help the learner be sucessful and make progress. Nobody enjoys things that aren't going well.  The first phase of knitting should be co-operative. 

-provide as much support as the learner needs to make things fun. It's more likely to catch in the long run that way. 

That's it! Enjoy. I'm starting a baby blanket and I've got a video about it that I'm working on. Maybe there's great internet in Kamloops. 

Steph