That's really pretty @Yvonne Smith If you can make socks and mittens, you can knit in the round and do short rows. Things I need to learn yet. BTW one of my favorite things to knit are leaf patterns. They are not nearly as complicated as they look.
I like knitting with four needles, once i learned how to do it; so it is worth the time it takes to accustom yourself to doing it. Mostly it is just getting used to how the needles hold in a circle, and otherwise, you are still just knitting from one needle to the next. I do not know what you mean by short rows, @Kitty Carmel ?
I like the slippers you make too @Yvonne Smith...at least I think it was your slippers I saw pics of in a post.
Yes it was on an island on Lake Titcaca in Peru @Yvonne Smith, it was in their culture. http://www.seniorsonly.club/threads/peru-vacation-in-july.6787/ In parts of the north of India the women are hod carriers for bricklayers, they carry a basket of bricks on their head and do many other what we consider to be male tasks in the West. In Russia a lot of women are mechanics and work with heavy machinery. Here in Mexico all the Passport control officers (who were actually good humoured and funny) and many of the police are female, there doesn't appear to be a fixed gender stereotype, it depends on the history and culture of the country I feel. I was taught to knit as a child but am too impatient so I never took to it.... my mother knitted very loosely so produced sweaters that reached to my knees.... I have believed for a while, that on balance the female gender is superior overall, and men in their fear/wisdom have chose to suppress women in order to maintain a patriarchal society to suit their needs. Lisa agrees to a degree, but feels that some decisions are better made with a logical male mind, than a female more emotionally tuned one.?
@Yvonne Smith When you knit socks and work on the heel, don't you knit part of a row not going to the end but turning and knitting back and then eventually knitting all those stitches left on the needle to form the heel? Anyway, I thought that's how the heel shape was done by short rows. I've never knit socks though so I'm not sure.
Yes, @Kitty Carmel , that is exactly what you do, I just have never heard the term “short rows” before and had no clue what those might be. I always called it “turning the heel”. Usually the direction are pretty specific for that; so once you get the hang of 4-needle knitting, and start making the sock, you should e able to turn the heel just fine. I sometimes have to go over it a couple of times when I am picking up stitches along the side of the heel, to get it back in the round shape again, but it is not like losing a row of stitches off of your needle, and you just pick them back up again. I suggest making socks with 4-ply yarn so you do not have to use really small needles, at least until you get used to doing it.