I’m a rookie and bought a pre-packaged tote bag kit that came with a hook, yarn and instructions, to make a gift for my mum. Turns out the instructions are well above my paygrade, so I’ve got some learning to do. It’s just granny squares, but the way the pattern is written down means absolutely nothing to me.

Last year I gave her a knit scarf and she really liked it, though I cheated by doing it on a knitting machine at the hacklab rather than by hand. Turns out knitting by hand is pretty hard. I had a lot of trouble tensioning the yarn the way it was naturally twisting during the knitting process.

@ickplant I found it most amusing that when mom taught me to crochet some 55 years ago, I kept teasing her that she was doing it backward (she was right-handed and I was left-handed). Then my sister (also left-handed) picked up crocheting AND knitting. We both teased mom about “doing it backwards”.

I’d also tease my nephew about how restaurants always knew to give me left handed chop sticks. He had to take Organic Chemistry in college before his girlfriend (who also took it) that chopsticks aren’t “chiral” or handed.