{"id":7421,"date":"2014-06-22T19:05:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T00:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2014-06-22T19:05:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T00:05:32","slug":"how-to-tell-a-m1l-from-a-m1r-whilst-reading-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=7421","title":{"rendered":"How to tell a M1L from a M1R whilst reading charts."},"content":{"rendered":"

While knitting green socks for Hunter Hammersen, there was a moment I fracking hated them. Not because the pattern is poorly written, but because I could NOT for the life of me remember the difference between a make one left and a make one right.
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I see a \\ on a chart and I immediately think ssk (you can draw an S out of a \\). I see a \/ and immediately k2tog (you can draw a K out of a \/, kind of).
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I could not, for the life of me, see a y or a flipped y and think anything other than “crap, I have to look up the make ones again”…..and to be clear, I wasn’t having to look it up once a row. I was having to look it up for every. single. make one.
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Finally, almost to the heel of the second sock I thought, “this is bat guano, there has to be a way to remember this” and I stopped knitting until I figured out the backwards y looks kind of like a B which tells me to pick up the ladder from the Back and knit through the front. (This is a M1R because the little line is off to the right.)
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The y looks like a backwards F so I need to pick up the ladder from the Front and knit through the back. (This is a M1L because the little line is off to the left)
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Then, I knit happily ever after.\"green<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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