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Permalink Reply by Susan on October 27, 2009 at 7:48am

Permalink Reply by Birdie on October 27, 2009 at 8:10am

I'm working on a prayer shawl too! I checked out youtube videos for purling. That way I could start and stop and re-start the video demo. There are so many out there. I jsut save them to my favorites in Youtube. Setting up an account there is really easy too.

Permalink Reply by Margaret "Marty" Cobb on October 27, 2009 at 10:16am

There are 2 yarn shops but both are not convenient for me to get to & they are not handicap accessible for wheelchairs. The library & community centers in our area do not offer knitting or sewing classes. I do belong to the American Sewing Guild & can knit with church members but everyone is so busy that I hate to interrupt them to show me a technique as we only have 1 hour a week to do these. The tutorials provided are great. I'll practice the technique until I'm comfortable with it before trying it on a shawl.
Marty

Permalink Reply by A on November 15, 2010 at 2:15pm

Marty, even though the library doesn't have classes surely it has books? maybe even videos or DVDs? You clearly have internet access; Google is your friend. Go to the Knitty and Ravelry websites and you'll be gobsmacked just how much is out there - and may be able to find a conducive group to join that is accessible. Come to that, what about asking some of the nice ladies (and gents) from church if anyone has time to help you out apart from at the get-together? After all, it'd be a bit un-Christian of them all to say "no" wouldn't it?