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[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Artists. I beg you. Do any research into what knitting looks like before drawing someone knitting.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 4 days ago

She's de-knitting to reuse the yarn. Duh...

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That's called 'frogging' (because you rip-it, rip-it), and you don't use needles to do it.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago

Wow, I was way off.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

I don't know shit about knitting, and even I can tell the needles are upside-down just for starters.

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

There was a bizarre movement in the Victorian era to get people to knit with their needles held with tips pointed down because it's "more ladylike" but it's also very difficult and irritating to knit that way so it didn't catch on.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

An "optics first" mindset. Sadly, it's probably even worse in 2024.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I imagine she's found a new technique, and that's what's truly letting her convince Death to let her keep on living

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't think there's any way to knit a tubular sock on straight needles; the geometry doesn't allow it. You can knit a sock flat and then sew it up into a tube, but it would look different from the comic.

Edit: actually now that I've thought about it more, I think there is a way but it would be super annoying (slip every other stitch so you're knitting the back and front of the tube at the same time, that might work...). Basically the equivalent of writing a letter by writing every other word and then going back to fill in the rest. Possible, but no reason to do it.

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