{"id":952,"date":"2008-01-05T15:53:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T20:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorahlavin.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/05\/norwegian-purl\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T15:53:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T20:53:59","slug":"norwegian-purl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Purl"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent part of today learning Cat B.’s continental purl<\/a>, but found that having the stitches twisted was discouraging, because I couldn’t really tell which ones were purl and knit stitches when I was checking my work. They basically all looked like mistakes. She mentioned in the video to expect this, and gives a solution, but I decided to look into Norwegian purl, which she says is similar to her way. I looked around on YouTube, and found several where the instructor is absolutely flying through the work, and I couldn’ t follow what was going on. Cheryl Kemp’s instructions<\/a> finally were clear enough for me to get it. Now I can purl continental, which I hadn’t been able to do so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent part of today learning Cat B.’s continental purl, but found that having the stitches twisted was discouraging, because I couldn’t really tell which ones were purl and knit stitches when I was checking my work. They basically all looked like mistakes. She mentioned in the video to expect this, and gives a solution, … Continue reading “Norwegian Purl”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[85],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-how-to"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-fm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":958,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=958","url_meta":{"origin":952,"position":0},"title":"Progress on the Bulky Hat","author":"Jorah","date":"January 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A quick check-in on the Bulky Hat project I started Friday night. 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