bad pictures to accompany bad analogies

Let's take a minute to look at Project Libby. If you don't know how to knit, this won't seem too monumental to you. So let me put it in terms anyone from the 1950s would understand. Normally, knitting is a little like a typewriter. You type a row across in one direction, then slide the platen back to start, and type another row. (You and I both just learned something new about typewriters; congratulations, us!) The same is true of knitting, so that your work generally grows in a vertical direction.

So, now that you totally understand all the basic concepts of knitting, here's something new to throw into the mix. Project Libby requires a border, and this is where it gets weird.


What may not be clear from this picture is that I am knitting perpendicular to the scarf. So let's imagine rotating that piece of paper 90 degrees and resuming typing in the margins. That's kind of like what this is but way cooler, particularly because it doesn't involve any sewing.

I drew a really bad MS Paint diagram to help illustrate my point, but I think it fails at that. (I should really do my blogging from a computer with fancy drawing programs.)


In conclusion: this is pretty rad. If you're into this knitting stuff, the pattern is available here, and is very clear and easy to follow.