When you’re knitting left-handed (moving the stitches from your right hand needle to the left), you might want to reverse the knitting graph horizontally, not vertically. You still start with row 1. If you follow the chart as written you may end up with a mirror image of what you’re knitting. On a dishcloth with a horse that is looking to the right, if you follow the directions as written, he could end up looking to the left. Most of the time it’s not a big deal. I’m right-handed and have many dishcloths that were “mistakes.” They work perfectly fine, and I think of them as practice.

Where knitters get frustrated is when they are knitting a cardigan sweater for example, and want the buttonholes on one side or the other. Or if you’re knitting a complex stitch like cables, they would also be a mirror image of the ones knit by a right-handed knitter.

If you were knitting something like a ball in a dishcloth, because the ball is symmetric right to left, no one would ever know it’s the mirror image. This DVD is made for left-handed knitters by a left-handed knitter. Just click here now.

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