The presentation paper outlines an aspect of traditional Latvian crafting - knitting - and new challenges and aspects that come along with the knitter's desire to explore more possibilities in their craft, looking at not only the available instructional material in English, but also broadening their horizons to English. It could be assumed that it is possible to immediately see English texts about knitting as relatively easy to understand, but a knitting pattern is a technical text that comes with its own language for special purposes that might be initially hard to grasp due to the abundant use of abbreviations, acronyms and knitting craft community specific words, such as ''tink'' (re-knitting an incorrect stitch) might be a little more straightforward, abbreviations like ssk, k2tog might leave a Latvian knitter, eager to learn how to read English patterns wondering about the meaning. While in English speaking countries such usage is standard, Latvian knitters are not familiar with these and if transferred with some transformation in Latvian, could create a text that is linguistically seen as incoherent as the case of the translation of Nikki van der Carr's What to knit when you're expecting (2012) translation in Latvian Adīsim, gaidot mazuli (2014) where the translation attempts to stay true to the original format.

Knitting related books have been translated from English into Latvian for many years, and each translator has their own approach and most translated works do not concern themselves with explaining the cultural and language differences. A contemporary attempt was made recently by Anete Bāriņa (2020) with her craft planner that includes a short English-Latvian dictionary of knitting terms.

Learning how to knit in English could be possible for any Latvian knitter who knows some English if there is a comprehensive dictionary of most common terms available. This presentation attempts to outline these and the benefits of learning this language for special purposes for interested crafters for their lifelong learning.