Comments on: To teach, to learn http://www.knitsisters.com/2008/02/04/teaching_socks/ Watch out. We've got sharp sticks. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:19:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Patty http://www.knitsisters.com/2008/02/04/teaching_socks/#comment-36610 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:43:23 +0000 http://www.knitsisters.com/2008/02/04/teaching_socks/#comment-36610 I just found your blog and wanted to tell you thanks for putting this together. My aunt taught me how to knit when I was a teen but I always needed her help with it. I kind of gave it up after I had kids but I am going to give it a go again. Your blog has really inspired me! You are so good at this!!! Patty I just found your blog and wanted to tell you thanks for putting this together. My aunt taught me how to knit when I was a teen but I always needed her help with it. I kind of gave it up after I had kids but I am going to give it a go again. Your blog has really inspired me! You are so good at this!!!

Patty

]]> by: Nicole http://www.knitsisters.com/2008/02/04/teaching_socks/#comment-29915 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:46:56 +0000 http://www.knitsisters.com/2008/02/04/teaching_socks/#comment-29915 I can attest from personal experience that Ellen is the best knitting teacher there ever was! (Hi, by the way!) I can attest from personal experience that Ellen is the best knitting teacher there ever was! (Hi, by the way!)

]]> by: lorinda http://www.knitsisters.com/2008/02/04/teaching_socks/#comment-29650 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:01:16 +0000 http://www.knitsisters.com/2008/02/04/teaching_socks/#comment-29650 Hey Ellen! I love that you are teaching a sock knitting class. I wish I were there in Boston to sit in on it with you. Something that has helped me immensely as an adult learner is the little stair-step diagram about unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence. I'm sure you're familiar with it. I find it heartening to realize I can move up those learning stairs a little at a time. Thanks for that thought-provoking and encouraging post! Hey Ellen! I love that you are teaching a sock knitting class. I wish I were there in Boston to sit in on it with you.

Something that has helped me immensely as an adult learner is the little stair-step diagram about unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence. I’m sure you’re familiar with it. I find it heartening to realize I can move up those learning stairs a little at a time. Thanks for that thought-provoking and encouraging post!

]]> by: Ellen http://www.knitsisters.com/2008/02/04/teaching_socks/#comment-29149 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:36:41 +0000 http://www.knitsisters.com/2008/02/04/teaching_socks/#comment-29149 Thanks for your thoughts, Sarah! Thanks for your thoughts, Sarah!

]]> by: Sarah http://www.knitsisters.com/2008/02/04/teaching_socks/#comment-28991 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:21:16 +0000 http://www.knitsisters.com/2008/02/04/teaching_socks/#comment-28991 Oh, I'm so glad that you're teaching knitting! It is fun to teach a new skill to people, isn't it? Especially knitting socks on two circs, which as you know is my preferred method as well. I myself have made many, many pairs of socks using two circulars, and at this point it almost feels like second nature to me as well. But I remember clearly the first pair of socks I made (not that long ago, as it happens) and how very confusing the whole process seemed. Oh, I’m so glad that you’re teaching knitting! It is fun to teach a new skill to people, isn’t it? Especially knitting socks on two circs, which as you know is my preferred method as well. I myself have made many, many pairs of socks using two circulars, and at this point it almost feels like second nature to me as well. But I remember clearly the first pair of socks I made (not that long ago, as it happens) and how very confusing the whole process seemed.

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