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Hey Norman! maybe you have a crafty Cricuit loving person in your life? Or maybe an etsy shop you already promote on your page you could work with....I think branding your emblem (the ball of yarn with 2 straight needles with NimbleNeedles above) Would make an amazing sticker, Keychain or personalized notions bag. I would buy it, and you already have an Etsy store 😉 Food for thought my friend.
Fun video. My 14-year-old granddaughter and I watched it together. She has been knitting since she was three years old and has progressed to designing her own patterns, with a preference for lace shawls. She has also started a group of young knitters, and after teaching them how to knit has a group that knit for both charity and for themselves. After 60 years of nearly daily knitting, while based on your definition I am firmly a master knitter, I consider myself just a knitter. There is always something new to learn or to try. Happy knitting!
Wow that’s amazing, I was taught knitting when I was 10 but I never picked it up back up until 3 weeks ago, I had to watch some RUclips videos as I had forgotten, I’m 41 now so it’s been a while lol I’m still at beginner’s level
Love this video. And found it fun to compare how different the order I learned skills in was. I learned knit and purl stitches at the same time, and also learned cabling well before the mattress stitch. We all had different journeys in this craft and it's fascinating to hear how other people learned
I got intermediate 3. This made me feel really great. I've only been knitting for about 2 years and I honestly dont think my knitting was much to write home about. But this video made me realize that I've improved far more than I thought! Thanks!
Master knitter. Knitting is part of me. I knit every day. However, your tutorial on gloves inspired me to make them for the first time. I liked that it is a recipe as I have never knitted from a pattern without altering it. I never understood that my skillset was so advanced so thank you for your tutorial. It was fun and informative. Your videos are very enjoyable, thank you. I have designed and knitted many items and even given help and support to others on you tube and face book. I live in an isolated area and have little contact with others but my knitting has kept me going and I have even sold some here. Yarn is very difficult to obtain but I have gradually found suppliers. This has also contributed to my skillset because I have had to design my own patterns. Once again, thank you for your channel it helps me feel connected.
knocked it out of the park again man! I would call myself solidly intermediate. There are some 'advanced beginner' things that I haven't done, but I also have some skills from the 'experienced' section! Your videos helped push me into intermediate, so thanks for all the time and effort you put in!
Same here. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I despite being advanced beginner in some things, I was pleased to also have a lot of intermediate and advanced skills.
This made me emotional. I started knitting about a year ago and I’m somewhere in the “advanced beginner” level. You have been vital to my knitting g journey and I’m so glad you do what you do! To think that I learned this wonderful life skill and creative outlet for free because of people like you who want to share their love of knitting with the world ❤️
Cool video, I was surprised to have reached experienced 1 according to your scale :) The way I learn might be a bit strange because I always have a very concrete project in mind and I learn the new techniques that are required for it as I need them. Also, about specialization: I tend to have periods when I am interested in one thing, and I don't knit anything else for a month or two. Then when I have had my fill, I become interested in something else and don't touch the old obsession for quite some time.
I also learn this way. Right now, I can only do socks, which imply stockinette stitch, ribbing, elastic cast-on, decreases, knitting in the round. And I've learned so much around that one project!
I too have learned in this way. I decided I wanted to learn how to do something and I looked it up. I didn't care how hard they said it was. I haven't run out of my passion for one subject yet, but based on decades of crochet, I know I will. :D
So, I’m a master knitter then! Thank you for this fun walk through! I’m a trainer and have been for 20 years, from team building to clinical IT systems, and yarn crafts and machine embroidery are my go to hobbies. I do craft fairs and sell items occasionally. But I create for the love of doing, not selling. I was surrounded by crafters, my aunt was a seamstress, my Nan enjoyed tapestry, my mother a qualified knitting machine pattern maker. It’s a big part of my life ☘️
I’ve been knitting since I was 5 and consider myself an intermediate/advanced knitter. I’ve knit multiple Aran and lace sweaters but have never really done much colour work. I don’t think I could ever call myself a master knitter because to me, there’s always so much more to learn and I love that. I love that even if I spend years learning colourwork, there will still be countless people out there better than me who I can learn from.
My mother always told me that the more you know, the more you realize how little you know ! Don’t sell yourself short. Even master knitters have something new to learn!!
I started knitting and crocheting at school. For myself in the beginning, for my 6 children, for 5 grandchildren and now for myself again. All socks, shawls, gloves, hats. Some vests, nice summer tops, intricately patterned lace scarves. I learned everything myself and there are for sure many mistakes. Because of that I like your channel. I have many things to learn.
I am an Advanced Beginner, Level 1, but I have worked hats with 4 needles, knitted in the round, and I enjoyed doing cables. I wish my hand movements were more economical like yours, and that my stitches were tighter and more uniform. Thanks for your story, that made learning the levels very interesting!
I am an Intermediate lvl 5! I’ve made an adorable purse using Intarsia technique. My confidence has soared this morning knowing I am further along my knitting journey than I thought. Thank you Norman!
I'm a beginner and I know that, but I like this as a path to follow. I found you yesterday and your videos are gold! As someone who's been from time to time trying to understand how to knit, you made it so clear I can only thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️
Hi Norman! After years and years of crochet, I used the pandemic lockdowns to learn to knit. Now I can proudly say I'm an Intermediate level 3.5 knitter due in large part to great teachers like you. Other things I've learned over this fun journey is to attempt projects that teach you something new, be kind to yourself when the learning curve seems impossibly steep and NEVER start a new project after 9pm!
My mother taught me to read my knitting with every stitch she taught me when I was 9. My second project included cables because I didn't know they were hard. That's when I learned to read patterns. Mom also taught me that patterns are really just suggestions, and I frequently adapted them Other things I learned as I needed but mostly I crocheted. When I was 56, I discovered magic loop (even though I had used traveling loop for years to avoid using double pointed needles) and I started knitting socks. I rarely do any other type of needlework now. I have become addicted to knitting socks, cowls and shawls in fingering weight yarn. I use worsted weight only for baby blankets and lap robes. I can knit kace but don't enjoy really fussy lace patterns. I love using basic stitches like knit, purl, slip stitches. yarn overs and pass slip stitches overs to create complicated looking patterns. This has been an entertaining video.
Norman, you are a gem! 💎I am rediscovering my childhood joy of knitting and your channel is truly amazing. Your teaching is clear and precise and you have a lovely personality that always bring me in a good mood. Lots of love from a Swedish Intermediate 1 knitter. ❤
I’m new to this channel and am just blown away by your content Norman. I am a bit of a mix of the beginner and intermediate levels and am looking forward to being able to knit like my mum and aunt did. It isn’t lost on me how they could just knit (crochet and sew) absolutely anything, without a pattern and to a professional standard. One day, I will get there, hopefully (thanks to your channel and website!) Much love from Australia, Amanda❤
Norman, your videos are so great. You are much like your knitted projects: warm, gentle and absolutely adorable. Thank you for your knowledge, skill and kindness. I look forward to ever more videos in the future… 🥰❤️
Advanced level 5, though I thoroughly enjoy just knitting patterns others have written as is. I’m more accustomed to taking inspiration from designers (I always buy the pattern!) and rewriting the pattern to my own tastes and measurements, but just following a pattern is so relaxing! Great video!
What a nice way to present knitting ventures 😅 I am not advanced nor experienced knitter but an adventurous intermediate and thrived to learn more fun stitches. Thanks for your sweet words and Knit On !❤
This was such a lovely video! Like a fairytale, but very very true 😊. You had to invest a lot of time and your knowledge and understanding of knitting. Very well structured levels, excellent "consice handbook of knitting", great job, congratulations! In general information in al your videos are always very well structured, you always give also "hinter den Kulissen" information what I love! It is then so easy to understand why something happens and how to avoid it for ever, like big edge stitches. Thank you so much for all your work, it is something I have never seen before!
This was a great video. Everyone has their own learning arch. It's also fun to review the levels in your video and note the items I'm interested in learning. Thank you.
Interesting video, Norman! Wouldn't have considered myself a 'Master Knitter' but most of what you described is applicable. Designing pieces, subbing yarns and yarn weights, using knitter's graph paper to achieve shapes in new gauge, recreating pieces from an image, using visuals as inspiration for own creations, etc. Consider myself more of a 'process' knitter as find all the number crunching and problem solving of figuring out what's needed to obtain a certain result is usually a more rewarding challenge than the successful 'product/FO' itself. Being creative is a way of life, for me, and consider knitting to be the one area in which I"m able to excel... but embrace anything which gets the creative juices flowing.
My granddaughters and I watched your video together and enjoyed it. My 16 year old granddaughter predicted she would be an "experienced beginner". She began knitting at age 3, designing at 10, and started her own knitting club - after teaching her friends to knit at 12. I would rate her higher, but as she says, there is always more to learn. Her sister is a beginner who knits potholders for gifts, and at this point has no desire to knit more. By your ranking, after 60+ years, of knitting nearly every day, I could be considered a master knitter. While I can knit anything I choose wirh relative ease, there is always something new to learn, and technique variations to execute as we play with our sticks and string.
well that was just so much fun! I feel like I'm all over the place as a knitted. I am confident with cables because I love them. Will do everything I can to avoid mattress stitch as I'm just awful at it. Just discovered the beauty of top down sweaters during covid. As you said the journey is not linear and I think the best journeys never are. Find what inspires and brings you your own joy. Thank you Norman. So much learning tucked away in all that funny.
exactly! would be stupid to stress over a thing you don't even enjoy, right? if you don't like seaming..why do it? so many different ways to get to the same result!
Hey, Norman, I find myself somewhere between experienced and advanced knitter. I love all 'home arts' but tend to gravitate toward knitting most. You're so cute, writing 'a knitter's journey' and reading it like a bedtime story. 😛 A trip down 'memory lane' with a nostalgic look at projects we've made, as well as, stitches and processes we've learned__that was enlightening. 😺 Thank you for creating enjoyable content for a craft we love, and love exploring more aspects of! 💖🙌🙌🙌😺
I would have told anyone I am an intermediate knitter. According to this I'm an experienced knitter! Ive been knitting for nearly 20 years, but much more in the last few years (I even recently learned crochet). Even though there's no "official knitting counsel," this is enough to give me a little boost in my crafting ability. Thank you for taking the time to make this video!
heh. well 20 years sounds very experienced to me ;-) There are girls on TikTok that have been crocheting for 2 months and call themselves "designer" ;-)
Your knitting test let me know I'm an advanced knitter level 5. I'm really proud of it. The only thing I cannot do is knitting without looking at it. But that's my way of doing things I love or want to accomplish as well as possible. I'm immersing in my project entirely and I love it. It's so relaxing. Watching TV would distract me. I always look for challenges and I'm proud of being able to master them. Recently stumbled into your channel and I find it so heartwarming and instructive at a time. I love with how much enthusiasm you explain everything. 🙂 Glad I found you here.
Advanced knitter. Thank you for your time. I often wondered what level I was. I learned to knit as a child of 10 via the English style. I did not knit much in my early adult years. I picked up my needles again about 15 years ago and
Taught myself the continental style and am loving knitting again. My favorite is socks at this time and knit a couple pairs a week. I it part of my every day routine now.
My mother taught me to knit more than 50 years ago. I enjoyed it, but was always worried I "wasn't doing it right." Now, after getting my first spinning wheel and falling in love with spinning and fiber, it was a natural next step to pick up the knitting needles again. This time, there was RUclips. And I quickly came upon your channel! I can't tell you how much your calm, happy, reassuring tutorials have meant and continue to mean to me as a returning knitter! I no longer avoid challenges but am really welcoming them. Your Knitting School is so much fun. Thank you!
I’m advanced 1 if you don’t count the color work. I just never had the desire, but I really should! I learned to crochet and knit backstage as an actress and now as a child guardian, and one of my greatest joys has been teaching the children I care for backstage how to knit and crochet. Some really take to it and advance far. All of the kids in the last revival if Les Miz completed a magic loop hat, some even with cables. Many still knit all the time and I’m so happy to have added this skill to their lives. Thank you for your lovely videos.
I've been knitting for 2 months now, and I've crocheted for the past 9 years. Between my crochet experience and your tutorials I would say I'm at a Beginner 3 with technical knowledge through Intermediate 4 and a solid tension for even stitching. So far I have completed 2 projects and I am now on my 3rd project, a pair of socks. Everything has come out very nicely and I rather feel like I'm cheating. But anytime I feel like I'm missing something or messing up I just refer to your videos to learn a better technic for it. So thank you again for teaching me so much!!
I'm pleased to have reached the intermediate level - and that's good enough for me. 😊 I also have other time-consuming and much more favourite hobbies. 🎵 Thank you for this lovely test, which is a story and not just quiz questions! 🇩🇪❤🇦🇹
Wow I got Experienced 1! Didn’t expect that. I started about 7 years ago with crochet and quickly added knitting to the mix and haven’t stopped! It keeps me sane. Thanks Norman!
My first project was Granny's favorite dishcloth. my MIL taught me and said it would help me to learn the basics (knit stitch, yarn over, increase, and decrease). I can tell you, I cursed more than I would like to admit! But eventually I got it. I am a continental knitter, and the purl stitch was one of the hardest things for me to learn. I did eventually get it, and now I don't even think about it. I am firmly in the intermediate category with a toe into experienced. My goal is to just have fun with it. If I never get to Advanced or Master, I am OK with that. I just make what I want, and before I know it, I've learned something new.
I have always have been a knitter. During pandemic I became an advanced knitter but knitting is already a big part of my life. Have so many pattern ideas I want to design myself.
Such a Great Morale Booster! I learned how to re-write patterns when I realized (a LOT of) directions can be wrong, confusing etc. And this was before internet & RUclips. I thoroughly embrace all that the internet provides today, a valuable tool for learning! I have binders, notebooks galore with my (endless) design tweaks, mods, rants, as well as (what I call..) my “Keeper” Patterns! I have a tendency to over-analyze patterns, but in my world, this usually leads to Happiness & Joy while I knit something I’ve modified, far removed from another’s design. And it’s been a Wonderful Journey...I cannot (won’t) stop learning! Thanks for your very informative vids...always something new to learn!!
Wow-thrilled to find I made it all the way to master knitter! My uncle taught me to knit when I was 10, and for decades I stayed in the advanced beginner/early intermediate stages. But in the last 15 years, without consciously deciding to do so, I progressed in my skills in leaps and bounds. In the loo ast decade, I started selling my knitted goods (friends & family really didn't need more knitted gifts), many of my own design, and accepting orders for things like bespoke sweaters, socks, or handwear. I find now that I often have 1 or 2 bigger WIPs going at the same time, but I'll put them down & knit some quick, simpler things as a break. So I still enjoy simple knitting, even while I challenge myself with more complex knitting. I enjoy your videos, as I appreciate how well you can put into words what I know with the knitting side of my brain, but can't always articulate the reasoning behind what I'm doing. Thanks for the clarity you bring to a complex set of skills!
thank you so much for your lovely feedback. I often brood a long while over my scripts/plan for a video simply because it doesn't yet feel right. So happy to hear it works!
I am solidly an Advanced Knitter. I certainly don't know every technique (I haven't done much lace, for example), but I know what my preferences are for knitting projects and can easily pick up new techniques thanks to my knowledge of knitting. I love to make my own patterns and projects and have been making gifts and commissions increasingly over the last few years. Knitting is absolutely a part of me, and I really appreciate your video because it has helped me to get past some of my "imposter syndrome," where I've been stuck feeling like I'm a decent knitter, but not a Good or Great knitter. However, I really need to take more pride in my work and recognize that I can say I'm a really good knitter and that's not a bad thing! Thank you, Norman 💜
It definitely sounds like u should. And it was one f my goals with this video. So many knitters think they r still barely a beginner...when progress is slow, things can be deceiving. So, definitely be more confident. ( but I too sometimes go down that imposter syndrome lane 🙈🙈)
@@NimbleNeedles I also want to thank you for responding to your comments. You really go above and beyond as a content creator and those efforts do not go unnoticed 🥰
fun to learn what I haven't tried yet! I'd say I am about intermediate level 2. I enjoy learning new things but like simple projects that I don't have to think about too much.
That was a fun video. It was also interesting to note what I do know / have learned and what is yet to explore. I'm an Intermediate 3 on your scale. I have shared the link with my knitting / crochet group and look forward to the chatter around it at our next meeting tomorrow.
Norman you are a gem. I only found you a couple of months ago but you have already taught me so much. Not only are you so knowledgeable and an excellent teacher, you are so affirming and non-judgmental. Thank you. I am heading over to patreon to join.
I would not have described myself as an experienced knitter, which is where I ended up according to the skill story. I usually describe myself as a curious knitter and am always challenge myself when choosing a project. I am so happy to have "stumbled" across your channel and look forward to learned more. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
What is good with knitting is even if you are a very good and knowledgeable knitter there is always something more to discover and to try. A life of knitting every day wouldn’t suffice and this is why I like it . Thanks for your videos and your kindness.
Advanced beginner 4! It's amazing how the skills just sneak in. I was just having fun knitting sweaters for my dog and all of a sudden noticed that I was doing cable knit with a custom fit. ❤
fascinating to me how the projects you do alter what skills you acquire. I first learnt to knit as a child, but that was mostly scarves. My first proper project more recently was socks. I've also made a few shawls and a hat so knitting in the round and lace are both extremely comfortable for me but I have no idea how to do a mattress stitch because I've never needed it. So much of this hobby is picking up knowledge on the go - I love it.
I love this.... I'm advance in sock knitting and really don't get patterns for them anymore unless it's a lace sock. However I'm for sure just a advanced beginner. Really tho unless someone is a master knitter aren't we always beginners at something, and advanced with others? We are always learning from a master and maybe some less then masters are master knitters to brand new knitters. Norman you always go above and beyond. I enjoy your content very much. Thank you.
That was so sweet and joyful! And I feel like I’ve been granted permission to call myself masterful by someone I admire. I certainly would never have been so bold otherwise.
I taught myself to knit 2 years ago curiosity of RUclips creators. I prefer continental knitting over English since I've been crocheting for over 50 years. I was super surprised to see I would be ranked an advanced intermediate to experienced. I've come a long way in 2 years and still have so much to learn. I knit everyday and couldn't imagine a day without something on needles. Thank you for all your many instructional videos. They are very appreciated.
My pleasure, kathie. And I find learning a needles craft is so much easier with a solid foundation with a other similar craft. So, I am actually not even surprised u learned so fast. But still, be proud of yourself 😊❤🧶
Advanced Beginner 3! I love to knit in the round, but I'm not interested in color work. Started knitting on a whim four months ago and it's my new spin. Yarn and needles... I get lost in it. So relaxing, spending evenings making ugly crafts instead of writing ugly code. Nimble Needles videos got me started and stay with me on my journey. I'm already making less horrible... things. 😊 Time to support this person whose brought so much joy to my life.
I am between Experienced and (beginning)Advanced! I loved this presentation!!! At 74 I am thoroughly enjoying knitting for charity, my family and friends. I feel knitting is keeping me young!!! Thank you so much for your video!!!
actually it does. I once saw a study how around age 65-67 here in Germany we have a very high excess mortality. And they attributed that to the fact that people retire and then have no occupation, nothing to keep em busy, no social interaction, and just eat and watch tv all day. Which of course is anything but healthy - neither for your body nor your mind.
@@NimbleNeedles when I retired at 68 I was determined not to slow down or sit around doing nothing. I have seen way too many people get dementia or worse!
I started knitting to try to connect with my paternal grandmother. She knitted for the Navy in WWII. I never met her but my dad talked about her knitting everywhere. I had a terrible accident at age 37 that demolished my spine. I got serious about learning to knit to distract myself from the pain. My daughter saved her allowance and purchased a kit with a book and 2 sets of needles. The best compliment I like to hear is, "That's beautiful. Can I have it?" Norman, you are blessed with a beautiful soul, a calming voice, and inspiring teaching method.
Advanced. I learned how to knit and crochet by my mom when I was 7 years old. For years I preferred crochet but over the past 5-10 years I've been knitting more and more. Funny thing is that now I prefer knitting! I'm loving this channel to help me refine my skills!
I've done almost everything you mentioned but at this point I learned to knit when I was 5 so It's been 45 years now, I still feel I'm far from a master. You taught me how to knit in reverse so I don't have to turn my work anymore. Today I started trying to pearl in reverse as well. I mostly crochet but have been doing both lately and am trying to miniaturising both crochet and knitting. It's just kinda difficult figuring out what to use as a needle when you're trying to work with 2 threads of embroidery or a single sewing thread.
Beginner 4 after a week of knitting. I came from crochet (my mother taught me), and used your videos to learn the basics and work through a series of swatches in different stitch patterns while also learning how to fix my mistakes. In the next week I’m planning on attempting my first sock (that I don’t’ plan on wearing) in a thicker DK weight yarn so I can see what I’m doing better.
What a fun stroll through knitting stitches, steps, techniques, levels, joy and satisfaction, and all. I love your ending explanation that the journeys makers take may vary and that beginners may still know and use some more advanced techniques. I have taught knitting for decades and it always surprises me to meet a student who claims, "I don't know much at all," only to discover that he has been double knitting for years. I'm at your advanced level with one exception: I not only purchase patterns because someone else created the design I can already execute on my own, but also because I might learn something new by reading or using that person's pattern. That is why I also watch your videos, even the most basic ones. Carry on! (The professional writer in me also loves that you created this as a story!)✍
As a nearly absolute beginner, this has been very useful to learn what skills should I be focusing on learning first! There is so many things that it's so difficult to know where to start... even if I learned intermediate levels along the way of making a pattern I hsould not have been doing yet hahaha. Also loved the idea of narrating it as a story!! Your channel is amazin, thank you very much for everything you do
I am an intermediate knitter that knows a few of the techniques mentioned for experienced. I am very happy with that, and also now I have a bit of an idea what could be my next steps when it comes to my learning. Colourwork is one of the things I find hard still and I just can’t really work it out, but I think practice would help me a lot.
What a great journey through knitting skills! Thank you too, for pointing out that the joy of knitting is not related to the number of skills required beyond the basics. Based on your story, I came in at "Experienced - 3." I have been knitting for decades, but it is only in the last 4-5 years that I decided to dive into more complicated stitch patterns, garment knitting, color-work and adjusting patterns. I am thoroughly enjoying the ability to make a wider variety of items, but it is the act of knitting, transforming yarn into an item, that I most enjoy.
I am an intermediate knitter and I thought I was still a beginner. This will open a lot of new patterns for my new knitting level. I have more confidence! Thank you my friend.
I beginner kniter aswell and I have bean knitting dishcloths mats in cotton yarn..I have bean knitting myself shawl blanket mini....I started knitting corner blanket shawl
Fun video Norman, as always such sensible inclusive advice from you. I learned the most basic steps from my mother but did not knit for about 30, 40 years due to RSi in neck and shoulders. I picked it up again a year ago and discovered how comfortable circular needles are for me as they don’t stress my shoulders and neck. I felt like a complete beginner as I couldn’t read a pattern as I had forgotten how to cast on and off! 12 months later I have progressed so much with the help of knitting channels like yours so have scored myself as an Intermediate 3 to 4. Current projects are both knitting in the round - one is a very ornate lace chart based pattern and the other is short rows and raglan increase and colour work. Both a challenge, but can’t tell you how much I am enjoying the whole learning journey. I love your approach in these videos, so reassuring and although you are a complete talented professional you are so lacking in any judgements and accepting that basically knitting is fun and you are a successful knitter if you find fun and joy in what you do- regardless of your level.
I am an Intermediate to Experienced knitter. I appreciate your guide :-) it made me realize I am more experienced than I thought. I am a more experienced crocheted, and enjoy that too!
I started with knitting then ventured into crochet. And found out that I prefer crochet over knitting. Thus, my projects then onward are mostly done via crochet😂. It's fun and I just switched between methods as I like. RUclips is a great place to learn more methods.
You, Norman, are a genius! This video helped me understand that although I have been knitting for more than 50 years I am not an expert knitter but that is okay. Please keep up the great work.
Norman, the master knitter, who dabbles in writing bedtime stories... 😂 You've been a big help in reviving my skills that sat dormant for 50 years. Now with an imminent retirement before me, it's time to put polish on my technique. Thanks Norman for your generous and kind teaching. You've added to my knitting joy. 🧶🪡🧣
Norman you taught me everything I know which isn't much. I started last month and it brings me so much joy. I am working on my first blanket to use on my couch. I am knitting and purling like a pro.
By this grading system, I stand at level 5! It was that "I want to know more!" desire that propelled me to my proficiency portfolio, and all the while, I'm just truly enjoying this craft!
I found this video very helpful in showing me how far I have come since starting to knit 2 years ago. I'd say I'm an advanced knitter as I have done a little designing, often change patterns and I'm up for a challenge!
This was an entertaining journey! I am Intermediate 2ish. Knitting (and crocheting) definitely brings me joy, and it is exciting every time i learn or improve. I love reading comments on these videos, what a creative and supportive community!
yes, they really are and I am so happy how things turned out. As I said in a recent community post, the fact that everyone is actually very humble, well behaved and joyful makes me so proud!
Being a beginner 4 as someone who considers myself a crocheter who dabbles in knitting was actually pretty surprising! I'm excited to be learning more about knitting these days.
Absolutely wonderful! What a positive and affirming discussion of skill levels. At retirement I decided to really learn to knit. I had my knitting story written, but your subscribers don’t need or want another knitting history from a stranger. (Just a tiny bit of my story.) Knitting is new to me, I made 1 item as a teen - a stockinet stitch handbag, lined with cotton fabric from a dress I had made for school. The bag has a double drawstring and ma design on the front in duplicate stitch “embroidery”. That was it until the past few years. From your story, I am somewhere in “advanced” in terms of what I know and can do (some color work, beaded lace to cabled hats). My work is pretty but I am so very, very, agonizingly SLOW (winter will be over and summer arrives with my project on my needles). I’ve watched your videos and I try to follow your examples for knitting faster but either my brain or my fingers are too slow. :) All is good. I love knitting, I love turning beautiful yarn into lovely, warm, soft fabric. And I’m so glad to add you to my short list of favorite teachers. Thank you for all that you do for us. PLC
EXPERIENCED 3 ❤️ Reasons why I LOVED your video, Norman: 1. I took myself for granted- never really looked at it this way. Whenever I learn something hard I beat myself up on every little mistake. This video helped me see I've progressed smoothly without tears for the first time in my life!!!! 2. If the hobby mentality worked for me without heartbreak then maybe I can transfer it over to other things I want to learn. (just enrolled at fine art academy to learn old masters portraiture). 3. Confidence booster! never thought about designing my own knitwear (I've only tweaked existing ones) but after watching this, I think that's my next knitting adventure. Thanks Norman for such a great video Have a great day ❤️
What a clever and insightful video, Norman! I’m on the verge of Master level status thanks to online teachers like you. My journey started when a dear friend - an artist who was dying of prostate cancer- started learning to knit. My husband and I decided to learn as well so we would have something to do while sitting with Fred during his treatments. We were self taught. “Knitting for Dummies” was our bible. RUclips opened a vast range of possibilities. I now make at least 6 sweaters a year - the more complicated the better. The knitting world is blessed with many talented and colorful mentors, and in my humble opinion you’re one of the very best!
Still a Beginner. I only just learned this year this May and I so far am still learning color work. I can't seem to learn as most tutors on knitting on RUclips are throwers but your channel definitely has helped me. I been a crocheter since 2018 and Continental knitting helped me as my left hand is just where I learn how to tension and your tutorials are helping me with my knitting journey. I have a long way to go (i just learned the importance of loose floats and puckering in fair isle. yikes) but thank you for so much for your videos!
I am absolutely floored! I'm an intermediate 3! I really didn't think I would have been this far along. Makes sense why I had very little problems with the intermediate level lace shawl now. I still need to try fair isle, but I'm feeling much more confident in my abilities, so I'm not as nervous to try it now... still don't know how to knit directly off of a knitting chart, but I'm sure I'll get there eventually. Thank you for helping me (and many others) learn and improve my knitting ability! And thank you for the ending wrap-up. It needed to be said. The reason it took me so long to learn knitting is because I had people tell me I was doing it wrong when I tried holding the yarn "like a crocheter" (you know, continental style), it crushed my confidence and I didn't try to learn for years after that. I just chalked it up to "this is just one of those things I can't wrap my head around" and didn't try for decades. I am so happy that I found aspects of crochet lacking (mainly drape and the bulkiness) and forced myself to try to attempt to learn knitting again. It has taken my garment making to a whole new level! For the most part I have you to thank, your tutorials are easy to understand, you are transparent in the fact that there are many techniques out there, and most importantly you are encouraging. 😃
Thank you for this video. I’ve been crocheting for 8 years but I’m just now starting my knitting journey. I’m at the very beginning 😅 but thanks to this video, I see what to look forward to and what steps to follow. I better master beginner 1 and move forward 😊
OK - now I know I am an Advanced Beginner #2. I had to teach myself to knit and crochet. I am always very cautious. Also I have recently had my first stroke and I just cannot remember or understand. You are making things easier for me.
I've been knitting for about eight years now.. Surprisiingly, I am solidly intermediate, but with some experienced, advanced, and even master skills. Before this, I thought I was still a beginner. I think we are all a beginner in some aspect of knitting, and a master of others. I love this video and I love knitting even more now. I feel encouraged.
I just started knitting last Christmas because in 🇸🇪, they announced that the 2022 Christmas present was the home-knitted garment 🧶 now I totally didn’t manage to make any of that 😂but it surely kickstarted my knitting journey. And I’m pleasantly surprised to see that I’m somewhat an advanced beginner 😄 I’ve started knitting in the round with dpns but haven’t learned cables or fair isle (although I’ve done stripes) your videos have certainly played a huge role in advancing my knitting techniques, so thank you 😊🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Hey Norman! maybe you have a crafty Cricuit loving person in your life? Or maybe an etsy shop you already promote on your page you could work with....I think branding your emblem (the ball of yarn with 2 straight needles with NimbleNeedles above)
Would make an amazing sticker, Keychain or personalized notions bag. I would buy it, and you already have an Etsy store 😉
Food for thought my friend.
Fun video. My 14-year-old granddaughter and I watched it together. She has been knitting since she was three years old and has progressed to designing her own patterns, with a preference for lace shawls. She has also started a group of young knitters, and after teaching them how to knit has a group that knit for both charity and for themselves. After 60 years of nearly daily knitting, while based on your definition I am firmly a master knitter, I consider myself just a knitter. There is always something new to learn or to try. Happy knitting!
This comment made me so happy
Wow that’s amazing, I was taught knitting when I was 10 but I never picked it up back up until 3 weeks ago, I had to watch some RUclips videos as I had forgotten, I’m 41 now so it’s been a while lol I’m still at beginner’s level
Oh my gawd that is something to aspire to for sure!!
Love this video. And found it fun to compare how different the order I learned skills in was. I learned knit and purl stitches at the same time, and also learned cabling well before the mattress stitch. We all had different journeys in this craft and it's fascinating to hear how other people learned
Yeah, definitely. I mean, I said as much at the end. Knitting is not a linear craft 😊😊
I got intermediate 3. This made me feel really great. I've only been knitting for about 2 years and I honestly dont think my knitting was much to write home about. But this video made me realize that I've improved far more than I thought! Thanks!
I could have written your comment! I'm the same level and was also pleasantly surprised how far I am.
Same here!
Me too! It's cool to see here how further we can advance our skill. I hope everyone's projects are going well!
Beginner 4, just started knitting a few months back and you've taught me everything I do know. Thank you Norman!!
oh wow. then, keep on knitting, eh, and onwards to master knitter, right? :)
Master knitter. Knitting is part of me. I knit every day. However, your tutorial on gloves inspired me to make them for the first time. I liked that it is a recipe as I have never knitted from a pattern without altering it. I never understood that my skillset was so advanced so thank you for your tutorial. It was fun and informative. Your videos are very enjoyable, thank you. I have designed and knitted many items and even given help and support to others on you tube and face book. I live in an isolated area and have little contact with others but my knitting has kept me going and I have even sold some here. Yarn is very difficult to obtain but I have gradually found suppliers. This has also contributed to my skillset because I have had to design my own patterns. Once again, thank you for your channel it helps me feel connected.
Happy to hear you enjoyed listening despite being so well advanced 🥰🧶
knocked it out of the park again man! I would call myself solidly intermediate. There are some 'advanced beginner' things that I haven't done, but I also have some skills from the 'experienced' section! Your videos helped push me into intermediate, so thanks for all the time and effort you put in!
My pleasure! And yeah, I mean, those levels are not set in stone. 🧶🧶
Same here. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I despite being advanced beginner in some things, I was pleased to also have a lot of intermediate and advanced skills.
Absolute beginner here. I am learning new stitch patterns and it is so exciting!
This made me emotional. I started knitting about a year ago and I’m somewhere in the “advanced beginner” level.
You have been vital to my knitting g journey and I’m so glad you do what you do! To think that I learned this wonderful life skill and creative outlet for free because of people like you who want to share their love of knitting with the world ❤️
What a lovely comment. 🙂❤
Cool video, I was surprised to have reached experienced 1 according to your scale :) The way I learn might be a bit strange because I always have a very concrete project in mind and I learn the new techniques that are required for it as I need them. Also, about specialization: I tend to have periods when I am interested in one thing, and I don't knit anything else for a month or two. Then when I have had my fill, I become interested in something else and don't touch the old obsession for quite some time.
We are all unique and that should be celebrated..so..I wouldn't say that's strange. It's you! 😊🥰
I also learn this way. Right now, I can only do socks, which imply stockinette stitch, ribbing, elastic cast-on, decreases, knitting in the round. And I've learned so much around that one project!
I too have learned in this way. I decided I wanted to learn how to do something and I looked it up. I didn't care how hard they said it was. I haven't run out of my passion for one subject yet, but based on decades of crochet, I know I will. :D
So, I’m a master knitter then! Thank you for this fun walk through! I’m a trainer and have been for 20 years, from team building to clinical IT systems, and yarn crafts and machine embroidery are my go to hobbies. I do craft fairs and sell items occasionally. But I create for the love of doing, not selling. I was surrounded by crafters, my aunt was a seamstress, my Nan enjoyed tapestry, my mother a qualified knitting machine pattern maker. It’s a big part of my life ☘️
I’ve been knitting since I was 5 and consider myself an intermediate/advanced knitter. I’ve knit multiple Aran and lace sweaters but have never really done much colour work. I don’t think I could ever call myself a master knitter because to me, there’s always so much more to learn and I love that. I love that even if I spend years learning colourwork, there will still be countless people out there better than me who I can learn from.
My mother always told me that the more you know, the more you realize how little you know ! Don’t sell yourself short. Even master knitters have something new to learn!!
I started knitting and crocheting at school. For myself in the beginning, for my 6 children, for 5 grandchildren and now for myself again. All socks, shawls, gloves, hats. Some vests, nice summer tops, intricately patterned lace scarves. I learned everything myself and there are for sure many mistakes. Because of that I like your channel. I have many things to learn.
I am an Advanced Beginner, Level 1, but I have worked hats with 4 needles, knitted in the round, and I enjoyed doing cables. I wish my hand movements were more economical like yours, and that my stitches were tighter and more uniform. Thanks for your story, that made learning the levels very interesting!
I'm sure you'll get there in no time. All it takes is a little bit of practice 😊😊🧶
I have noticed a while back that as a garment is worn, the stitches tend to even out. Be kind to yourself. We are our own harshest critic.
I am an Intermediate lvl 5! I’ve made an adorable purse using Intarsia technique. My confidence has soared this morning knowing I am further along my knitting journey than I thought. Thank you Norman!
Awesome! Like I said.. most ppl think they r actually not as good as they are!
I have so much knitted purses saved on my Pinterest.. they look so stunning, hope to make it one day.
Proud of You, well done. 😌💖
I'm a beginner and I know that, but I like this as a path to follow. I found you yesterday and your videos are gold! As someone who's been from time to time trying to understand how to knit, you made it so clear I can only thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️
Hi Norman! After years and years of crochet, I used the pandemic lockdowns to learn to knit. Now I can proudly say I'm an Intermediate level 3.5 knitter due in large part to great teachers like you.
Other things I've learned over this fun journey is to attempt projects that teach you something new, be kind to yourself when the learning curve seems impossibly steep and NEVER start a new project after 9pm!
@Karen Richmond,
Oh, how many of us have done the 'late night' creation only to realize next day, "what the heck was I doing?" 😱😹😹😹
My mother taught me to read my knitting with every stitch she taught me when I was 9. My second project included cables because I didn't know they were hard. That's when I learned to read patterns. Mom also taught me that patterns are really just suggestions, and I frequently adapted them Other things I learned as I needed but mostly I crocheted. When I was 56, I discovered magic loop (even though I had used traveling loop for years to avoid using double pointed needles) and I started knitting socks. I rarely do any other type of needlework now. I have become addicted to knitting socks, cowls and shawls in fingering weight yarn. I use worsted weight only for baby blankets and lap robes. I can knit kace but don't enjoy really fussy lace patterns. I love using basic stitches like knit, purl, slip stitches. yarn overs and pass slip stitches overs to create complicated looking patterns. This has been an entertaining video.
I wish I could learn how to do socks.
Norman, you are a gem! 💎I am rediscovering my childhood joy of knitting and your channel is truly amazing. Your teaching is clear and precise and you have a lovely personality that always bring me in a good mood. Lots of love from a Swedish Intermediate 1 knitter. ❤
I’m new to this channel and am just blown away by your content Norman.
I am a bit of a mix of the beginner and intermediate levels and am looking forward to being able to knit like my mum and aunt did. It isn’t lost on me how they could just knit (crochet and sew) absolutely anything, without a pattern and to a professional standard. One day, I will get there, hopefully (thanks to your channel and website!) Much love from Australia, Amanda❤
Advanced knitter 1 - I was surprised that I have came that far along !!!
Norman, your videos are so great. You are much like your knitted projects: warm, gentle and absolutely adorable. Thank you for your knowledge, skill and kindness. I look forward to ever more videos in the future… 🥰❤️
there's sure more to come! already working on the next video as we speak :)
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Advanced level 5, though I thoroughly enjoy just knitting patterns others have written as is. I’m more accustomed to taking inspiration from designers (I always buy the pattern!) and rewriting the pattern to my own tastes and measurements, but just following a pattern is so relaxing! Great video!
It certainly can be, I totally agree (or aggravating, if it is a bad pattern 🤣🤣)
@@NimbleNeedles So true! 🤣🤣
What a nice way to present knitting ventures 😅 I am not advanced nor experienced knitter but an adventurous intermediate and thrived to learn more fun stitches. Thanks for your sweet words and Knit On !❤
This was such a lovely video! Like a fairytale, but very very true 😊. You had to invest a lot of time and your knowledge and understanding of knitting. Very well structured levels, excellent "consice handbook of knitting", great job, congratulations! In general information in al your videos are always very well structured, you always give also "hinter den Kulissen" information what I love! It is then so easy to understand why something happens and how to avoid it for ever, like big edge stitches. Thank you so much for all your work, it is something I have never seen before!
This was a great video. Everyone has their own learning arch. It's also fun to review the levels in your video and note the items I'm interested in learning. Thank you.
yah..that was kind of the idea (well one of them). Glad you enjoyed watching!
Interesting video, Norman! Wouldn't have considered myself a 'Master Knitter' but most of what you described is applicable. Designing pieces, subbing yarns and yarn weights, using knitter's graph paper to achieve shapes in new gauge, recreating pieces from an image, using visuals as inspiration for own creations, etc. Consider myself more of a 'process' knitter as find all the number crunching and problem solving of figuring out what's needed to obtain a certain result is usually a more rewarding challenge than the successful 'product/FO' itself. Being creative is a way of life, for me, and consider knitting to be the one area in which I"m able to excel... but embrace anything which gets the creative juices flowing.
My granddaughters and I watched your video together and enjoyed it. My 16 year old granddaughter predicted she would be an "experienced beginner". She began knitting at age 3, designing at 10, and started her own knitting club - after teaching her friends to knit at 12. I would rate her higher, but as she says, there is always more to learn.
Her sister is a beginner who knits potholders for gifts, and at this point has no desire to knit more.
By your ranking, after 60+ years, of knitting nearly every day, I could be considered a master knitter. While I can knit anything I choose wirh relative ease, there is always something new to learn, and technique variations to execute as we play with our sticks and string.
Very fun. Nice way to tell a knitter’s journey. I’m intermediate 3 : ) been knitting for 8 months. Everything I’ve learned is from RUclips.
well that was just so much fun! I feel like I'm all over the place as a knitted. I am confident with cables because I love them. Will do everything I can to avoid mattress stitch as I'm just awful at it. Just discovered the beauty of top down sweaters during covid. As you said the journey is not linear and I think the best journeys never are. Find what inspires and brings you your own joy. Thank you Norman. So much learning tucked away in all that funny.
exactly! would be stupid to stress over a thing you don't even enjoy, right? if you don't like seaming..why do it? so many different ways to get to the same result!
Hey, Norman,
I find myself somewhere between experienced and advanced knitter. I love all 'home arts' but tend to gravitate toward knitting most.
You're so cute, writing 'a knitter's journey' and reading it like a bedtime story. 😛 A trip down 'memory lane' with a nostalgic look at projects we've made, as well as, stitches and processes we've learned__that was enlightening. 😺
Thank you for creating enjoyable content for a craft we love, and love exploring more aspects of! 💖🙌🙌🙌😺
I would have told anyone I am an intermediate knitter. According to this I'm an experienced knitter! Ive been knitting for nearly 20 years, but much more in the last few years (I even recently learned crochet). Even though there's no "official knitting counsel," this is enough to give me a little boost in my crafting ability. Thank you for taking the time to make this video!
heh. well 20 years sounds very experienced to me ;-)
There are girls on TikTok that have been crocheting for 2 months and call themselves "designer" ;-)
Your knitting test let me know I'm an advanced knitter level 5. I'm really proud of it. The only thing I cannot do is knitting without looking at it. But that's my way of doing things I love or want to accomplish as well as possible. I'm immersing in my project entirely and I love it. It's so relaxing. Watching TV would distract me. I always look for challenges and I'm proud of being able to master them. Recently stumbled into your channel and I find it so heartwarming and instructive at a time. I love with how much enthusiasm you explain everything. 🙂 Glad I found you here.
Advanced knitter. Thank you for your time. I often wondered what level I was. I learned to knit as a child of 10 via the English style. I did not knit much in my early adult years. I picked up my needles again about 15 years ago and
Taught myself the continental style and am loving knitting again. My favorite is socks at this time and knit a couple pairs a week. I it part of my every day routine now.
I too love sock knitting. I find it one of the most relaxing things to knit.
My mother taught me to knit more than 50 years ago. I enjoyed it, but was always worried I "wasn't doing it right." Now, after getting my first spinning wheel and falling in love with spinning and fiber, it was a natural next step to pick up the knitting needles again. This time, there was RUclips. And I quickly came upon your channel! I can't tell you how much your calm, happy, reassuring tutorials have meant and continue to mean to me as a returning knitter! I no longer avoid challenges but am really welcoming them. Your Knitting School is so much fun. Thank you!
I’m advanced 1 if you don’t count the color work. I just never had the desire, but I really should! I learned to crochet and knit backstage as an actress and now as a child guardian, and one of my greatest joys has been teaching the children I care for backstage how to knit and crochet. Some really take to it and advance far. All of the kids in the last revival if Les Miz completed a magic loop hat, some even with cables. Many still knit all the time and I’m so happy to have added this skill to their lives. Thank you for your lovely videos.
I've been knitting for 2 months now, and I've crocheted for the past 9 years. Between my crochet experience and your tutorials I would say I'm at a Beginner 3 with technical knowledge through Intermediate 4 and a solid tension for even stitching. So far I have completed 2 projects and I am now on my 3rd project, a pair of socks. Everything has come out very nicely and I rather feel like I'm cheating. But anytime I feel like I'm missing something or messing up I just refer to your videos to learn a better technic for it.
So thank you again for teaching me so much!!
I'm pleased to have reached the intermediate level - and that's good enough for me. 😊 I also have other time-consuming and much more favourite hobbies. 🎵
Thank you for this lovely test, which is a story and not just quiz questions! 🇩🇪❤🇦🇹
Wow I got Experienced 1! Didn’t expect that. I started about 7 years ago with crochet and quickly added knitting to the mix and haven’t stopped! It keeps me sane. Thanks Norman!
My first project was Granny's favorite dishcloth. my MIL taught me and said it would help me to learn the basics (knit stitch, yarn over, increase, and decrease). I can tell you, I cursed more than I would like to admit! But eventually I got it. I am a continental knitter, and the purl stitch was one of the hardest things for me to learn. I did eventually get it, and now I don't even think about it. I am firmly in the intermediate category with a toe into experienced. My goal is to just have fun with it. If I never get to Advanced or Master, I am OK with that. I just make what I want, and before I know it, I've learned something new.
I have always have been a knitter. During pandemic I became an advanced knitter but knitting is already a big part of my life. Have so many pattern ideas I want to design myself.
Such a Great Morale Booster! I learned how to re-write patterns when I realized (a LOT of) directions can be wrong, confusing etc. And this was before internet & RUclips. I thoroughly embrace all that the internet provides today, a valuable tool for learning! I have binders, notebooks galore with my (endless) design tweaks, mods, rants, as well as (what I call..) my “Keeper” Patterns! I have a tendency to over-analyze patterns, but in my world, this usually leads to Happiness & Joy while I knit something I’ve modified, far removed from another’s design. And it’s been a Wonderful Journey...I cannot (won’t) stop learning! Thanks for your very informative vids...always something new to learn!!
Wow-thrilled to find I made it all the way to master knitter! My uncle taught me to knit when I was 10, and for decades I stayed in the advanced beginner/early intermediate stages. But in the last 15 years, without consciously deciding to do so, I progressed in my skills in leaps and bounds. In the loo ast decade, I started selling my knitted goods (friends & family really didn't need more knitted gifts), many of my own design, and accepting orders for things like bespoke sweaters, socks, or handwear. I find now that I often have 1 or 2 bigger WIPs going at the same time, but I'll put them down & knit some quick, simpler things as a break. So I still enjoy simple knitting, even while I challenge myself with more complex knitting.
I enjoy your videos, as I appreciate how well you can put into words what I know with the knitting side of my brain, but can't always articulate the reasoning behind what I'm doing. Thanks for the clarity you bring to a complex set of skills!
thank you so much for your lovely feedback. I often brood a long while over my scripts/plan for a video simply because it doesn't yet feel right. So happy to hear it works!
With you till the end. For me knitting (and crochet) is way of life. Not one day without!
I am solidly an Advanced Knitter. I certainly don't know every technique (I haven't done much lace, for example), but I know what my preferences are for knitting projects and can easily pick up new techniques thanks to my knowledge of knitting. I love to make my own patterns and projects and have been making gifts and commissions increasingly over the last few years. Knitting is absolutely a part of me, and I really appreciate your video because it has helped me to get past some of my "imposter syndrome," where I've been stuck feeling like I'm a decent knitter, but not a Good or Great knitter. However, I really need to take more pride in my work and recognize that I can say I'm a really good knitter and that's not a bad thing! Thank you, Norman 💜
It definitely sounds like u should. And it was one f my goals with this video. So many knitters think they r still barely a beginner...when progress is slow, things can be deceiving. So, definitely be more confident. ( but I too sometimes go down that imposter syndrome lane 🙈🙈)
@@NimbleNeedles I also want to thank you for responding to your comments. You really go above and beyond as a content creator and those efforts do not go unnoticed 🥰
fun to learn what I haven't tried yet! I'd say I am about intermediate level 2. I enjoy learning new things but like simple projects that I don't have to think about too much.
That was a fun video. It was also interesting to note what I do know / have learned and what is yet to explore. I'm an Intermediate 3 on your scale. I have shared the link with my knitting / crochet group and look forward to the chatter around it at our next meeting tomorrow.
Norman you are a gem. I only found you a couple of months ago but you have already taught me so much. Not only are you so knowledgeable and an excellent teacher, you are so affirming and non-judgmental. Thank you. I am heading over to patreon to join.
Wow, thank you
I would not have described myself as an experienced knitter, which is where I ended up according to the skill story. I usually describe myself as a curious knitter and am always challenge myself when choosing a project. I am so happy to have "stumbled" across your channel and look forward to learned more. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
What is good with knitting is even if you are a very good and knowledgeable knitter there is always something more to discover and to try. A life of knitting every day wouldn’t suffice and this is why I like it . Thanks for your videos and your kindness.
you are absolutely right. I run this channel, a knitting blog, publish patterns, but still I learn a new thing about knitting almost every day!
Advanced beginner 4! It's amazing how the skills just sneak in. I was just having fun knitting sweaters for my dog and all of a sudden noticed that I was doing cable knit with a custom fit. ❤
fascinating to me how the projects you do alter what skills you acquire. I first learnt to knit as a child, but that was mostly scarves. My first proper project more recently was socks. I've also made a few shawls and a hat so knitting in the round and lace are both extremely comfortable for me but I have no idea how to do a mattress stitch because I've never needed it.
So much of this hobby is picking up knowledge on the go - I love it.
I love this.... I'm advance in sock knitting and really don't get patterns for them anymore unless it's a lace sock. However I'm for sure just a advanced beginner. Really tho unless someone is a master knitter aren't we always beginners at something, and advanced with others? We are always learning from a master and maybe some less then masters are master knitters to brand new knitters. Norman you always go above and beyond. I enjoy your content very much. Thank you.
That's about right. Even I am learning new things almost daily. 😊🧶
That was so sweet and joyful! And I feel like I’ve been granted permission to call myself masterful by someone I admire. I certainly would never have been so bold otherwise.
sometimes, you have to be bold! :)
Wonderful video, and advice!
I am a mixture. Intermediate 4 but can design a simple pattern.
Norman, you are a delight. Thoroughly loved this! Thank you! ❤️
I taught myself to knit 2 years ago curiosity of RUclips creators. I prefer continental knitting over English since I've been crocheting for over 50 years. I was super surprised to see I would be ranked an advanced intermediate to experienced. I've come a long way in 2 years and still have so much to learn. I knit everyday and couldn't imagine a day without something on needles. Thank you for all your many instructional videos. They are very appreciated.
My pleasure, kathie. And I find learning a needles craft is so much easier with a solid foundation with a other similar craft. So, I am actually not even surprised u learned so fast. But still, be proud of yourself 😊❤🧶
Advanced Beginner 3! I love to knit in the round, but I'm not interested in color work. Started knitting on a whim four months ago and it's my new spin. Yarn and needles... I get lost in it. So relaxing, spending evenings making ugly crafts instead of writing ugly code.
Nimble Needles videos got me started and stay with me on my journey. I'm already making less horrible... things. 😊 Time to support this person whose brought so much joy to my life.
Oh wow! Glad I can be such an essential part of your journey!
I cannot believe I made it to Intermediate 2! I just love this craft so much and I truly enjoyed this test. Well Done🤩🤩🤩
I am between Experienced and (beginning)Advanced! I loved this presentation!!! At 74 I am thoroughly enjoying knitting for charity, my family and friends. I feel knitting is keeping me young!!! Thank you so much for your video!!!
actually it does. I once saw a study how around age 65-67 here in Germany we have a very high excess mortality. And they attributed that to the fact that people retire and then have no occupation, nothing to keep em busy, no social interaction, and just eat and watch tv all day. Which of course is anything but healthy - neither for your body nor your mind.
@@NimbleNeedles when I retired at 68 I was determined not to slow down or sit around doing nothing. I have seen way too many people get dementia or worse!
I started knitting to try to connect with my paternal grandmother. She knitted for the Navy in WWII. I never met her but my dad talked about her knitting everywhere. I had a terrible accident at age 37 that demolished my spine. I got serious about learning to knit to distract myself from the pain. My daughter saved her allowance and purchased a kit with a book and 2 sets of needles. The best compliment I like to hear is, "That's beautiful. Can I have it?"
Norman, you are blessed with a beautiful soul, a calming voice, and inspiring teaching method.
Advanced beginner 1. It's a suprise for me as I only begin to learn about 3 months ago. I am mostly learn from your videos. Thank you very much!
I’ve been knitting for about a year now I learnt from my mum and grandmother and was impressed to find out I was an adv beginner 2
Advanced. I learned how to knit and crochet by my mom when I was 7 years old. For years I preferred crochet but over the past 5-10 years I've been knitting more and more. Funny thing is that now I prefer knitting! I'm loving this channel to help me refine my skills!
I started out with crochet as well..but now it's 98% knitting :P
I've done almost everything you mentioned but at this point I learned to knit when I was 5 so It's been 45 years now, I still feel I'm far from a master. You taught me how to knit in reverse so I don't have to turn my work anymore. Today I started trying to pearl in reverse as well. I mostly crochet but have been doing both lately and am trying to miniaturising both crochet and knitting. It's just kinda difficult figuring out what to use as a needle when you're trying to work with 2 threads of embroidery or a single sewing thread.
Beginner 4 after a week of knitting. I came from crochet (my mother taught me), and used your videos to learn the basics and work through a series of swatches in different stitch patterns while also learning how to fix my mistakes. In the next week I’m planning on attempting my first sock (that I don’t’ plan on wearing) in a thicker DK weight yarn so I can see what I’m doing better.
What a fun stroll through knitting stitches, steps, techniques, levels, joy and satisfaction, and all. I love your ending explanation that the journeys makers take may vary and that beginners may still know and use some more advanced techniques. I have taught knitting for decades and it always surprises me to meet a student who claims, "I don't know much at all," only to discover that he has been double knitting for years. I'm at your advanced level with one exception: I not only purchase patterns because someone else created the design I can already execute on my own, but also because I might learn something new by reading or using that person's pattern. That is why I also watch your videos, even the most basic ones. Carry on! (The professional writer in me also loves that you created this as a story!)✍
Thx for the lovely feedback..and great you still enjoy a bit of storytelling 🥰
I'm an intermediate knitter and loved this video!
Thanks, Norman!
As a nearly absolute beginner, this has been very useful to learn what skills should I be focusing on learning first! There is so many things that it's so difficult to know where to start... even if I learned intermediate levels along the way of making a pattern I hsould not have been doing yet hahaha. Also loved the idea of narrating it as a story!! Your channel is amazin, thank you very much for everything you do
I am an intermediate knitter that knows a few of the techniques mentioned for experienced. I am very happy with that, and also now I have a bit of an idea what could be my next steps when it comes to my learning. Colourwork is one of the things I find hard still and I just can’t really work it out, but I think practice would help me a lot.
It was a fun experience for me as well! Maybe I'll do something similar soon...or maybe just videos of me reading lace charts, hahaha
What a great journey through knitting skills! Thank you too, for pointing out that the joy of knitting is not related to the number of skills required beyond the basics. Based on your story, I came in at "Experienced - 3." I have been knitting for decades, but it is only in the last 4-5 years that I decided to dive into more complicated stitch patterns, garment knitting, color-work and adjusting patterns. I am thoroughly enjoying the ability to make a wider variety of items, but it is the act of knitting, transforming yarn into an item, that I most enjoy.
I am an intermediate knitter and I thought I was still a beginner. This will open a lot of new patterns for my new knitting level. I have more confidence! Thank you my friend.
Expert 2-3. Working on fitting sweaters better, modifying necklines, complex colorwork etc. And thanks for the fun and clever knitting story!!
I beginner kniter aswell and I have bean knitting dishcloths mats in cotton yarn..I have bean knitting myself shawl blanket mini....I started knitting corner blanket shawl
Sounds like a lovely project that will keep you entertained for many hours to come 😊🧶
Watching with my granddaughter who has learned to knit by watching your channel. She says she is a Beginner Level 2. She is 11 years old.
How awesome! So young and already on her way to become a master knitter! 😎😎🧶
Fun video Norman, as always such sensible inclusive advice from you. I learned the most basic steps from my mother but did not knit for about 30, 40 years due to RSi in neck and shoulders. I picked it up again a year ago and discovered how comfortable circular needles are for me as they don’t stress my shoulders and neck. I felt like a complete beginner as I couldn’t read a pattern as I had forgotten how to cast on and off! 12 months later I have progressed so much with the help of knitting channels like yours so have scored myself as an Intermediate 3 to 4. Current projects are both knitting in the round - one is a very ornate lace chart based pattern and the other is short rows and raglan increase and colour work. Both a challenge, but can’t tell you how much I am enjoying the whole learning journey.
I love your approach in these videos, so reassuring and although you are a complete talented professional you are so lacking in any judgements and accepting that basically knitting is fun and you are a successful knitter if you find fun and joy in what you do- regardless of your level.
You are a very wise man. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us. Bright Blessings.
I am an Intermediate to Experienced knitter. I appreciate your guide :-) it made me realize I am more experienced than I thought. I am a more experienced crocheted, and enjoy that too!
I started with knitting then ventured into crochet. And found out that I prefer crochet over knitting. Thus, my projects then onward are mostly done via crochet😂. It's fun and I just switched between methods as I like. RUclips is a great place to learn more methods.
You, Norman, are a genius! This video helped me understand that although I have been knitting for more than 50 years I am not an expert knitter but that is okay. Please keep up the great work.
Norman, the master knitter, who dabbles in writing bedtime stories... 😂 You've been a big help in reviving my skills that sat dormant for 50 years. Now with an imminent retirement before me, it's time to put polish on my technique. Thanks Norman for your generous and kind teaching. You've added to my knitting joy. 🧶🪡🧣
wasn't that also an Album by Madonna? ^^
Beginner 4. I started last week. You've taught me every stitch! 💜
Norman you taught me everything I know which isn't much. I started last month and it brings me so much joy. I am working on my first blanket to use on my couch. I am knitting and purling like a pro.
awesome! happy knitting then and I bet your blanket will be amazing.
By this grading system, I stand at level 5! It was that "I want to know more!" desire that propelled me to my proficiency portfolio, and all the while, I'm just truly enjoying this craft!
I found this video very helpful in showing me how far I have come since starting to knit 2 years ago. I'd say I'm an advanced knitter as I have done a little designing, often change patterns and I'm up for a challenge!
This was an entertaining journey! I am Intermediate 2ish. Knitting (and crocheting) definitely brings me joy, and it is exciting every time i learn or improve. I love reading comments on these videos, what a creative and supportive community!
yes, they really are and I am so happy how things turned out. As I said in a recent community post, the fact that everyone is actually very humble, well behaved and joyful makes me so proud!
I just found your channel, and I love it. You were correct, I am a better knitter than I thought I was. A real confidence booster.
Being a beginner 4 as someone who considers myself a crocheter who dabbles in knitting was actually pretty surprising! I'm excited to be learning more about knitting these days.
Thankyou Norman that's how you pick up stitches when I drop stitches I undo all my knitting and start all over again.
Absolutely wonderful! What a positive and affirming discussion of skill levels. At retirement I decided to really learn to knit. I had my knitting story written, but your subscribers don’t need or want another knitting history from a stranger.
(Just a tiny bit of my story.) Knitting is new to me, I made 1 item as a teen - a stockinet stitch handbag, lined with cotton fabric from a dress I had made for school. The bag has a double drawstring and ma design on the front in duplicate stitch “embroidery”. That was it until the past few years.
From your story, I am somewhere in “advanced” in terms of what I know and can do (some color work, beaded lace to cabled hats). My work is pretty but I am so very, very, agonizingly SLOW (winter will be over and summer arrives with my project on my needles). I’ve watched your videos and I try to follow your examples for knitting faster but either my brain or my fingers are too slow. :)
All is good. I love knitting, I love turning beautiful yarn into lovely, warm, soft fabric. And I’m so glad to add you to my short list of favorite teachers. Thank you for all that you do for us. PLC
it'*s my pleasure, Partricia!
I made it to Intermediate 4- actually surprised myself. Thank you for this
EXPERIENCED 3 ❤️
Reasons why I LOVED your video, Norman:
1. I took myself for granted- never really looked at it this way. Whenever I learn something hard I beat myself up on every little mistake. This video helped me see I've progressed smoothly without tears for the first time in my life!!!!
2. If the hobby mentality worked for me without heartbreak then maybe I can transfer it over to other things I want to learn. (just enrolled at fine art academy to learn old masters portraiture).
3. Confidence booster! never thought about designing my own knitwear (I've only tweaked existing ones) but after watching this, I think that's my next knitting adventure.
Thanks Norman for such a great video
Have a great day ❤️
my pleasure! And lots of sucess with your fine arts acedemay, nora!
What a clever and insightful video, Norman! I’m on the verge of Master level status thanks to online teachers like you. My journey started when a dear friend - an artist who was dying of prostate cancer- started learning to knit. My husband and I decided to learn as well so we would have something to do while sitting with Fred during his treatments. We were self taught. “Knitting for Dummies” was our bible. RUclips opened a vast range of possibilities. I now make at least 6 sweaters a year - the more complicated the better. The knitting world is blessed with many talented and colorful mentors, and in my humble opinion you’re one of the very best!
Still a Beginner. I only just learned this year this May and I so far am still learning color work. I can't seem to learn as most tutors on knitting on RUclips are throwers but your channel definitely has helped me. I been a crocheter since 2018 and Continental knitting helped me as my left hand is just where I learn how to tension and your tutorials are helping me with my knitting journey.
I have a long way to go (i just learned the importance of loose floats and puckering in fair isle. yikes) but thank you for so much for your videos!
I am absolutely floored! I'm an intermediate 3! I really didn't think I would have been this far along. Makes sense why I had very little problems with the intermediate level lace shawl now. I still need to try fair isle, but I'm feeling much more confident in my abilities, so I'm not as nervous to try it now... still don't know how to knit directly off of a knitting chart, but I'm sure I'll get there eventually. Thank you for helping me (and many others) learn and improve my knitting ability! And thank you for the ending wrap-up. It needed to be said. The reason it took me so long to learn knitting is because I had people tell me I was doing it wrong when I tried holding the yarn "like a crocheter" (you know, continental style), it crushed my confidence and I didn't try to learn for years after that. I just chalked it up to "this is just one of those things I can't wrap my head around" and didn't try for decades. I am so happy that I found aspects of crochet lacking (mainly drape and the bulkiness) and forced myself to try to attempt to learn knitting again. It has taken my garment making to a whole new level! For the most part I have you to thank, your tutorials are easy to understand, you are transparent in the fact that there are many techniques out there, and most importantly you are encouraging. 😃
Well, I got a video about reading chart and fair isle. So, just watch them when u feel ready 😎
Thank you for this video. I’ve been crocheting for 8 years but I’m just now starting my knitting journey. I’m at the very beginning 😅 but thanks to this video, I see what to look forward to and what steps to follow. I better master beginner 1 and move forward 😊
OK - now I know I am an Advanced Beginner #2. I had to teach myself to knit and crochet. I am always very cautious. Also I have recently had my first stroke and I just cannot remember or understand. You are making things easier for me.
I loved this Norman! Thanks
I've been knitting for about eight years now.. Surprisiingly, I am solidly intermediate, but with some experienced, advanced, and even master skills. Before this, I thought I was still a beginner. I think we are all a beginner in some aspect of knitting, and a master of others. I love this video and I love knitting even more now. I feel encouraged.
even I still learn a new thing almost every day. so yeah, in a way you never stop being a beginner in some areas :)
I just started knitting last Christmas because in 🇸🇪, they announced that the 2022 Christmas present was the home-knitted garment 🧶 now I totally didn’t manage to make any of that 😂but it surely kickstarted my knitting journey. And I’m pleasantly surprised to see that I’m somewhat an advanced beginner 😄 I’ve started knitting in the round with dpns but haven’t learned cables or fair isle (although I’ve done stripes) your videos have certainly played a huge role in advancing my knitting techniques, so thank you 😊🙏🏼🙏🏼