Hi Brenda – I followed you over here from PurseLipSquareJaw. its amazing how many knitting scientists there are! it doesn’t explain the ‘why’, but you might find this poll from Theresa the Knitting Scientist very interesting: http://www.keyboardbiologist.net/knitblog/archives/000827.html
and this is the introduction to the knitting scientist webring:
http://skeintilyclad.blogspot.com/2005/04/nqcfo-and-new-science-knits-webring.html
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