If my gran had tried to teach me that way, I'd never have gone back for another lesson. I would have seen it as a pointless waste of time and given up.
I'm not actually any less impatient than I used to be, but working with computers for years has taught me that the best way to get things done with the minimum of fuss is to pay great attention to what you're doing, to be aware of things going wrong so you can correct them as soon as possible and that re-doing things is always quicker than doing them for the first time. One of the reasons I used to pretend mistakes didn't exist was because I usually didn't notice until I'd gone a considerable way past and then undoing so much was too disheartening for a slow knitter to cope with.
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2012 07:18 am (UTC)I'm not actually any less impatient than I used to be, but working with computers for years has taught me that the best way to get things done with the minimum of fuss is to pay great attention to what you're doing, to be aware of things going wrong so you can correct them as soon as possible and that re-doing things is always quicker than doing them for the first time. One of the reasons I used to pretend mistakes didn't exist was because I usually didn't notice until I'd gone a considerable way past and then undoing so much was too disheartening for a slow knitter to cope with.