Eastern turned Western

So Jen Love and i took a felting class in Bedford at the Yarn Theory and our great teacher Jan Mosley was coaching me on making and I-cord for my felted bag. So i was showing her the way i knit cause Gaylyn says it's Continental style, so i was showing off "my way" She was just watching and kinda goes.. Oh.. ok. I see... (i'm thinking, soo your not impressed here?) She goes you knit the Eastern Crossed Method... Um i do?

Apparently it is the oldest style of knitting. It is taught or comes from South America, which is where i learned how to knit. I found out that Eastern Crossed Method is not as published as the "Western Method" that all my girls are used to. Jan basically said i'm going to have to switch to the Western style if i want to follow any patterns in the future or i can just make up my own. So i told my girls about this.. Kinda depressing at first. Great now i'm really fast, can pretty much knit w/o looking and i'm ready for that sweater.. but i have to change the whole way i knit?? dang it!

Everybody was like, you can totally make up your own patterns and knit the way you do. Which i have, um, yeah, my turquoise shrug *ahem* aaaand the closest thing to a compliment on that is.. "hey where's the rest of your sweater?" to which i say " oh, my gosh.. i, i forgot it.." So maybe designing patterns isn't my thing ok??

So i started knitting western, i was really afraid at first that it would slow me way down.. and i'm happy to say it did for a little bit and now it's great! i actually like the knit stich better than my Eastern Method. Anyhow. i feel more confident now. I know brian will be proud he wanted me to learn this. Now i can teach people how to knit the right way. (i would always refer them to Gaylyn before cause my way was "different') I love it. I'll post some pictures soon of my felted bag. i love to knit. i still can't stop..
knit on!!