Teaching knitting in the age of information
I was asked by a friend for help with a knitting project. This is a new knitter (comparatively) and she was reaching beyond scarves. She had picked a pattern online and was stuck at a slightly ambiguous instruction. I got the pattern company and pattern name, I downloaded it, I printed it off. Then we got down to cases. Where EXACTLY was she stuck? Figured that out. So then I walked her through the confusion step by step. I did all this with her 50 miles from me sitting in her house and I in mine. On Facebook chat. To me, this is an incredible thing. I went to college. I took "Computer Programming and Statistics". Never in my wildest DREAMS would I expect to chat to my friends (anywhere in the WORLD). Never did I think I would solve knitting dilemmas on chat. Now I grant you, we DID set up a knitting fun day at the same time. We're meeting and having a fiber fest in a couple of weeks. Nothing takes the place of being in the same room, but when you are