funny thing

One of the funniest things that I know of is a dyslexic knitter trying to
knit an Aran pattern. You know, all those right and left crosses!

My Grandfather understood, he was dyslexic. He never told me to go right or
left, he would say, "Take your end east," or "Go south 3 miles, then go east
2 miles."

But all the patterns for the stitches used in Aran knitting have all those
right and left crosses. I get them all mixed up and make a mess. So for
knitters, dyslexia is a disability, and under the Americans with
Disabilities Act, disabled persons are entitled to reasonable accommodation.
I would like to propose a reasonable accommodation for us dyslexics.

Directions for Aran stitches should start out by saying, "sit on a bench (in
the sun) facing east." Then each cross could be identified as a Northern
cross or a Southern cross. That I can understand and get right. Then, I
would not have to figure out my right and my left in every line of the
directions. If we can not get this accommodation, I am going to have to go
back to wearing my watch when I knit. However, wearing a watch while
knitting makes it too much like work.


Aaron

Directions for Aran stitches should start out by saying, "sit on a bench
(in
the sun) facing east." Then each cross could be identified as a Northern
cross or a Southern cross. That I can understand and get right. Then, I
would not have to figure out my right and my left in every line of the
directions. If we can not get this accommodation, I am going to have to
go
back to wearing my watch when I knit. However, wearing a watch while
knitting makes it too much like work.


Aaron
Aaron, there is a solution. Make notes on the pattern substituting
back/front for right/left. Being ambidextrous, right and left don't mean
much to me either.
DA

Aaron, you crack me up. THanks for the laugh!

Georgia

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One of the funniest things that I know of is a dyslexic knitter trying to
knit an Aran pattern. You know, all those right and left crosses!

My Grandfather understood, he was dyslexic. He never told me to go right
or
left, he would say, "Take your end east," or "Go south 3 miles, then go
east
2 miles."

But all the patterns for the stitches used in Aran knitting have all those
right and left crosses. I get them all mixed up and make a mess. So for
knitters, dyslexia is a disability, and under the Americans with
Disabilities Act, disabled persons are entitled to reasonable
accommodation.
I would like to propose a reasonable accommodation for us dyslexics.

Directions for Aran stitches should start out by saying, "sit on a bench
(in
the sun) facing east." Then each cross could be identified as a Northern
cross or a Southern cross. That I can understand and get right. Then, I
would not have to figure out my right and my left in every line of the
directions. If we can not get this accommodation, I am going to have to
go
back to wearing my watch when I knit. However, wearing a watch while
knitting makes it too much like work.


Aaron

Oh, my, Aaron, I never thought of that! However, if you use a written out
pattern instead of a chart, you should be OK, shouldn't you?

Higs,
Katherine

wrote:
One of the funniest things that I know of is a dyslexic knitter
trying to knit an Aran pattern. You know, all those right and left
crosses!

My Grandfather understood, he was dyslexic. He never told me to go
right or left, he would say, "Take your end east," or "Go south 3
miles, then go east 2 miles."

But all the patterns for the stitches used in Aran knitting have all
those right and left crosses. I get them all mixed up and make a
mess. So for knitters, dyslexia is a disability, and under the
Americans with Disabilities Act, disabled persons are entitled to
reasonable accommodation. I would like to propose a reasonable
accommodation for us dyslexics.

Directions for Aran stitches should start out by saying, "sit on a
bench (in the sun) facing east." Then each cross could be identified
as a Northern cross or a Southern cross. That I can understand and
get right. Then, I would not have to figure out my right and my left
in every line of the directions. If we can not get this
accommodation, I am going to have to go back to wearing my watch when
I knit. However, wearing a watch while knitting makes it too much
like work.


Aaron

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One of the funniest things that I know of is a dyslexic knitter trying to
knit an Aran pattern. You know, all those right and left crosses!
[...] If we can not get this accommodation, I am going to have to go
back to wearing my watch when I knit. However, wearing a watch while
knitting makes it too much like work.

Thank you for the chuckle, Aaron. I have a friend who knits (I crochet our
of sheer perversity) and she has dyslexia. She's complained to me a few
times about charts, so I showed her a crochet lace chart I was working from
at the time. She was very quiet for a minute, then looked at me with the
largest, most earnest expression I've ever seen on her face. "Oh," she
said. "You poor thing."

She hasn't complained since, but every once in a while I see her glancing
over at what I'm working on with this really pained expression, as if she
wants to apologize to me for the world treating me so harshly.

--Threnody

Actually, I keep my wedding ring on the table by my knitting chair. My
sister made sure that it only fits my left hand so when I wear it, it is on
the correct hand.

Mostly, I was just making fun of the way that special interest groups behave
in the US these days.

Aaron


"Katherine" wrote in message
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Oh, my, Aaron, I never thought of that! However, if you use a written out
pattern instead of a chart, you should be OK, shouldn't you?

Higs,
Katherine

wrote:
One of the funniest things that I know of is a dyslexic knitter
trying to knit an Aran pattern. You know, all those right and left
crosses!

My Grandfather understood, he was dyslexic. He never told me to go
right or left, he would say, "Take your end east," or "Go south 3
miles, then go east 2 miles."

But all the patterns for the stitches used in Aran knitting have all
those right and left crosses. I get them all mixed up and make a
mess. So for knitters, dyslexia is a disability, and under the
Americans with Disabilities Act, disabled persons are entitled to
reasonable accommodation. I would like to propose a reasonable
accommodation for us dyslexics.

Directions for Aran stitches should start out by saying, "sit on a
bench (in the sun) facing east." Then each cross could be identified
as a Northern cross or a Southern cross. That I can understand and
get right. Then, I would not have to figure out my right and my left
in every line of the directions. If we can not get this
accommodation, I am going to have to go back to wearing my watch when
I knit. However, wearing a watch while knitting makes it too much
like work.


Aaron

Hey, Aaron. I gotta admit that your post made me laugh too -- just
loved the way your Grandfather gave directions. In fact, I wish he
were somewhere around my area 'cause everybody here gives the worst
directions in the world, like:
"Go to the big tree ..."
"Well, WHAT big tree 'cause there's a forest all along the road there!"
"Oh, you'll know, it's really BIG. Then go to Joe's barn ..."
"Who's Joe? Is the barn marked that it's his?"
"No, it just Joe's and everybody knows it's his!"
"Well I don't know, so how will I know where to turn?!!!"
........... It goes on like that forever. :-P

Anyhow, if you have your pattern on your 'puter, you could copy and
paste into a word processing program and then use "find" for right and
left and substitute east and west for them instead. If the pattern's
not on your 'puter, maybe you could make a chart?

Thanks for the laugh, and good luck with all the crosses!
Eve

Ah, yes, that is a good point!

Higs,
Katherine

wrote:
Actually, I keep my wedding ring on the table by my knitting chair.
My sister made sure that it only fits my left hand so when I wear it,
it is on the correct hand.

Mostly, I was just making fun of the way that special interest groups
behave in the US these days.

Aaron


"Katherine" wrote in message
...
Oh, my, Aaron, I never thought of that! However, if you use a
written out pattern instead of a chart, you should be OK, shouldn't
you?

Higs,
Katherine

wrote:
One of the funniest things that I know of is a dyslexic knitter
trying to knit an Aran pattern. You know, all those right and left
crosses!

My Grandfather understood, he was dyslexic. He never told me to go
right or left, he would say, "Take your end east," or "Go south 3
miles, then go east 2 miles."

But all the patterns for the stitches used in Aran knitting have all
those right and left crosses. I get them all mixed up and make a
mess. So for knitters, dyslexia is a disability, and under the
Americans with Disabilities Act, disabled persons are entitled to
reasonable accommodation. I would like to propose a reasonable
accommodation for us dyslexics.

Directions for Aran stitches should start out by saying, "sit on a
bench (in the sun) facing east." Then each cross could be
identified as a Northern cross or a Southern cross. That I can
understand and get right. Then, I would not have to figure out my
right and my left in every line of the directions. If we can not
get this accommodation, I am going to have to go back to wearing my
watch when I knit. However, wearing a watch while knitting makes
it too much like work.


Aaron

In article ,
wrote:
One of the funniest things that I know of is a dyslexic knitter trying to
knit an Aran pattern. You know, all those right and left crosses!

My Grandfather understood, he was dyslexic. He never told me to go right or
left, he would say, "Take your end east," or "Go south 3 miles, then go east
2 miles."

But all the patterns for the stitches used in Aran knitting have all those
right and left crosses. I get them all mixed up and make a mess. So for
knitters, dyslexia is a disability, and under the Americans with
Disabilities Act, disabled persons are entitled to reasonable accommodation.
I would like to propose a reasonable accommodation for us dyslexics.

Directions for Aran stitches should start out by saying, "sit on a bench (in
the sun) facing east." Then each cross could be identified as a Northern
cross or a Southern cross. That I can understand and get right. Then, I
would not have to figure out my right and my left in every line of the
directions. If we can not get this accommodation, I am going to have to go
back to wearing my watch when I knit. However, wearing a watch while
knitting makes it too much like work.

Try the aran charts in Barbara Walters' books. They just have a picture
that shows which way the cables cross. (But I noticed that on one of them,
the swatch knitter goofed on the last row of crosses!)

=Tamar

Turns out that are some errors in that big glossy book on knitting that I
got for Xmas. Our local library has a copy of "Knitting Around the World"
which is reprints of articles from Threads. Those instructions for Aran
stitches are much better. Three cheers for Threads (and their *better*
writers and editors); Hip!, Hip!, Hooray!

Still, I like the idea of a knitting pattern that starts out, "Select a
knitting spot facing the warm morning sun; take up your blue Wassit, some
fine steel needles, and cast on . . . . "

We did have an hour of warm spring sun at sunrise. Now, it is raining like
a mule ****ing in a mud puddle. We picked this house because it had great
light, but even with our huge windows, it is too dark to work navy wool
without electric light. I am ever so glad that I am not sitting in a stone
hut by a peat fire. So much for the romantic ideal of the Irish lass
knitting a gansey with hearts on the sleeve for her fisherlad.

Aaron


"Richard Eney" wrote in message
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In article ,
wrote:
One of the funniest things that I know of is a dyslexic knitter trying to
knit an Aran pattern. You know, all those right and left crosses!

My Grandfather understood, he was dyslexic. He never told me to go right
or
left, he would say, "Take your end east," or "Go south 3 miles, then go
east
2 miles."

But all the patterns for the stitches used in Aran knitting have all
those
right and left crosses. I get them all mixed up and make a mess. So for
knitters, dyslexia is a disability, and under the Americans with
Disabilities Act, disabled persons are entitled to reasonable
accommodation.
I would like to propose a reasonable accommodation for us dyslexics.

Directions for Aran stitches should start out by saying, "sit on a bench
(in
the sun) facing east." Then each cross could be identified as a Northern
cross or a Southern cross. That I can understand and get right. Then, I
would not have to figure out my right and my left in every line of the
directions. If we can not get this accommodation, I am going to have to
go
back to wearing my watch when I knit. However, wearing a watch while
knitting makes it too much like work.

Try the aran charts in Barbara Walters' books. They just have a picture
that shows which way the cables cross. (But I noticed that on one of
them,
the swatch knitter goofed on the last row of crosses!)

=Tamar