How I Knit: a flicking throwing hybrid style of English knitting
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- I've gotten a lot of questions and comments about my #knitting style, so this week I'm sharing a short video/demonstration, slowing it down for you so you can get a good look at what I would call a flicking-throwing hybrid: my hand moves less than throwing but more than flicking. :-D Check it out, maybe it will work for you too!
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This how I knit and this is the first time I’ve seen someone knit like me. I CANNOT keep tension with any other method.
I knit like this also. I think the fact that I don't have to keep my index finger straight out/up like flicking requires creates less stress. I have a naturally tight gauge and this process also allows me to knit a bit looser. It may not be as fast as flicking, but it is very comfortable and I can get a reasonably good speed.
I hold my yarn a bit differently but my knitting is essentially the same. It is nice to know that other people do it this way.
This is exactly how I knit! I am also working on my flicking but it feels awkward and slows me down. I can also knit continental but it's much slower for me so I've stuck with this method for the past 15 years.
The method you're using is the technique I learned from a how to knit book when I was 8 yrs. old. I am now 70! You are the first person I have ever seen that knits just like me. I find it faster and more efficient in controlling yarn tension as well.. Happy knitting!
This is how I knit, too!! When I get tired, I switch to my middle finger to do the same. I call this style *flowing* when asked.
I also saw Joanne's Web here on RUclips do this as well.
Like most, i also knit pretty much this way. I have arthritis in both hands and I've been knitting like this for over 50 yrs. I was taught by my Material Grandmother. I keep on knitting to keep movement in my hands.
This is how I knit. I was taught by my grandmother as a small child in the 50s who in turn was born in 1900. I am fast and have even tension. I can knit continentally but dislike it and only use it when I am doing stranded knitting.
I think our method of knitting causes less hand tension.
I will send this tutorial to someone I know that wants to knit. Great explaination!
one thing though... your left hand has a major job as well. The left hand pushes the stitches up and gathers the stitches to be knit forward. The left hand continues to move the stitches up to be knit next. And those left finger push the stitch off. Keep your stitches as close to the tip as possible.
knit onward!!😊
Omg this is how I knit! I learned from my mother when I was younger. I have arthritis in my hands and flicking causes too much strain on my joints, so I find this method the most comfortable. I have started to occasionally use a tension ring on my right index finger which allows me to relax my grip even further
I’ve never seen anybody else not like this. I tried flicking, but couldn’t due to a hand injury and this is how I ended up knitting. It’s awesome to see someone else (on RUclips) knit like this! Thank you!❤
This is how most English people knit and how I was taught by my mother. I am now seventy four and am still knitting. As with your knitting you are able to maintain the tension easier. Thankyou for sharing.
I’m British and also knit like this, having been taught by my mother and grandmother who are also British. 🌸
I do this too. I think it’s just how most naturally evolve to fast English knitting.
I evolved from English to knitting like you then one day I noticed I was flicking. It just happened 😊
This is how I've always knitted except I wrap the yarn around my little finger to tension it.
I've been knitting this way for fifty odd years. However, I only put the yarn over my pinky finger.
Glad to know that how I knit has a name. I am also a Hybrid. Nice to know I am not alone. I think it evolves naturally. I have no interest in flicking which is too machine like for me.
This is exactly how I knit, I've been trying other methods but find them very uncomfortable and difficult to manipulate stitches and fabric. Glad to see because I have been feeling pressured into using those other methods.
Yay! Others who knit like I do! I’m new to knitting and can’t flick but wanted to move a bit faster than throwing and ended up knitting this way as well. I keep trying to do it the “right” way (if there is one) but ended up getting frustrated because of the lack of progress and trying to change what works for me. I crochet and thought continental would work for me, but it didn’t and purling was a NOPE for that method. I will continue on with the flicking throwing hybrid for which I will call the flowing method moving forward 😅.
There's no "right" way as long as you're happy with it!
This is exactly how I knit. I have a completely different way of holding/tensioning my working yarn though as I am a lefty crocheter. Never could knit continental because I can't keep control of my yarn with my left hand (out of habit) 🤷♀️🤣
Fascinating. I’ve been trying to learn continental having learned from my mother the English way. My knitting is much like yours but I could never figure out how to keep my hands on my work at all times. How have I never heard about wrapping my yarn around my little finger for tension for all these years. My mom must have wrapped hers because she was able to flick… craziness. This makes all the difference!
I’ve been doing this for years. Have never seen anyone else do it this way. Tried flicking with no success. Finally accepted that my way works for me. Nice to know that I’m not alone. Oh and I’ve had strangers be fascinated at how quickly this goes and have had it described as elegant!
I think I knit very much like you do, and I also hold my right needle like a pencil. I go FAST! I have seen people do the whole convoluted throwing motion and that seems incredibly inefficient to me. No wonder people say Continental is faster, but I think I could go head to head (hand to hand?) with any picker. :)
Me too
Me 3. Only beginners do the first method shown!
I definitely found it interesting! I learned English and switched to Continental years ago. I will use English in one hand for stranded knitting so it comes in quite handy. I think your method looks great! You have good control and speed. That being said, your flicking looks good too! You should do what makes you the happiest. Your work looks great! Thanks for sharing!😊
I have tried continental, but haven't practiced enough to get good at it. 😀
I knit this way as well, I cannot get comfortable flicking, but this feels really easy and natural to me too. I am also learning to knit continental, in preparation for my first colorwork project!
I learned continental as a child. my hands get tired now and I had thought i was throwing. But wahoo I'm really a Hybrid Flicker. I tried reg flicking but I just can't hold on the needle. This is the way I do it. Thanks for the video.
Thank you so much for this knitting demonstration. My grandmother taught me to knit this way about 61 years ago! Thought I was the only one who used this technique; especially holding the needles with the left hand while letting go with the right, as the index finger wrapped yarn around the tip. Since my Grandmother had English ancestry, maybe the technique was passed down from there. Thanks again! I don’t feel so alone now!!
Lovely to hear, thank you so much for sharing!
Yes, I’m British and my mother and grandmother (both British) taught me to knit this way also. 🌸
Thank you for the info about this knitting technique being English and passed down through the generations. What a wonderful confirmation! I feel so good about the way I knit now!! 🥰
Omg that’s how I knit except I have the yarn positioned differently on my index finger
That looks faster than throwing but safer than flicking
this is exactly how i knit! i thought i was a weirdo
Yep, this is me, too. The only thing I do differently is I kind of dip my left hand down at the same time I'm "throwing" so the left needle is a little lower for me.
Interesting, I guess I am a hybrid flicker like you.
This is how I knit!
I knit this way, but left-handed. I also tension my yarn such that the working yarn comes underneath my index finger, so the “working” portion is at the back of the index finger rather than the front and hold the working needle with my last three fingers. I think this is why I have had trouble with switching to flicking or continental - the tensioning and where you hold the needle are both so different that it is very awkward and slow. I have had success with Portuguese knitting and will often use that for 1x1 rib since, like continental, you never let go of the needle.
Interesting....I call my method of knitting a kind of hybrid also, but a hybrid of flicking, throwing and lever knitting. The only real difference between how you and I knit is that I don't use an overhanded grip for my right needle. i just kind of lay it in the crook of my hand, much like you would a pencil. The first time I tried it, I wasn't sure it was going to work, but since I already am right handed, I started to think of it like that and it changed everything. With the underhanded grip, you hand actually NEVER looses contact with the needle at all. All you have to do to "flick' the yarn over the tip of the needle is make a bit of a quick straightening motion with your fingers. Same movement for knits and purls. It's extremely mechanically fluid. For beginners of this method, it may take a little time to cut down the actual movements so you just basically have two extremely fluid motions. For instance, when I first started, it was more like; insert the needle into the stitch, then then flick the yarn, pull the stitch through. But it only took me a couple of weeks to make inserting the needle into the next stitch while wrapping it simultaneously, become one simple motion. Then you transfer the stitch to your right needle from the live left one.
Quite literally as soon as I decided to try to cut down the movements to the bare minimum, my speed doubled within a week. I'll be posting a tutorial on it soon. Even though I typically don't make videos, I think it might help a lot of people who want to switch to "flicking" but just can't get it to work. I was one of them until I re-positioned my right hand to the underhanded grip, since that automatically placed your working yarn beneath the tip of the right needle, whereas an overhanded grip on the right needle places the index finger above the tips. Obviously that works perfectly well for most flickers, but for a lot of people (like me), I just can't get the same result that way. Do you know if there is a way to tag people if I wanted to show you the vid, after I get it made or uploaded? Thanks for sharing your technique. I've learned so much from so many of you over the years. I hope 2023 is wonderful for you and yours! 😊
I'd be interested to see your instruction video!
Ha! This is exactly how I taught myself to knit. I’m left handed.
I'm a thrower--but I have my working yarn woven thru my fingers for tension. I never leave it hanging loose and pick up to throw. It totally disrupts the flow.
Towards the end of a blanket and on 1,575 st per row, in the round (45 repeats of 35sts in DK) and I hadn't noticed my style of knitting... I'm a UK knitter of 40 years and this is my natural placement and flow.
I push forward the stitches on my left needle with middle and index fingers. Every foot or so I readjust the stitches. Weirdly, it's not how I teach though!
I have just been going through the techniques and I think because I teach on straights, the way I hold the needles and the yarn, it does change how I knit with circulars. I hold straights further back in the palm of the hand, whereas circulars are shorter in the palm my hands and fingers are much furthere forward.... plus, when teaching, I focus on accuracy, and when doing stuff on my own, it's fast and furious without thought, just stitch count. It's made me be thoughtful of my technique now. Thank you.
Keep practising flicking, but always go back to this method
I tension a bit differently, but this is how I knit as well. I do Continental a bit as well which comes in handy for colorwork.
I am self-taught, and it is so exciting to see someone who knits like me!! 🤩
This is close to what I do! Pretty-well the same!
I'm trying to pick up flicking but I'm the same as you, my left hand is holding the needles. I just can't get my right hand to hold the needle with my middle finger.
I knit this way also.
How interesting! ❤
I sort of knit like that but I hold the right hand needle between my thumb and pointy finger
The work is on top of my thumb
My mom taught me to knit that way more than 60 years ago. I have since tried continental and flicking but don't enjoy those methods nearly as much.
That os how I knit. I have always just thought it was throwing.
Practise leaving your hand on the work .The only think that moves should be your finger relax you shoulders ,arms and hands .Keep the stitches closer to the tips. Watch Arne and Carlos and see how they kinda clutch their work in each hand. Search for a video called ,Norwegian purl English style ,it will help the purl paun
That’s how I knit
I can't seem to get the tension while trying to flick.
same!
I'm a flicker too but I don't drop the right needle at all.
To me this style is English knitting 🙂 and also how I knit. Flicking is just the next step where your finger flicks the yarn without your hand leaving the needle. Something English knitters do as they gain speed and experience. I’ve never actually seen anyone knit by holding the yarn. I thought this was just something invented by Continental knitters on RUclips who don’t understand how we knit. 😁😝😉
I pretty much knit this way, but the yarn comes off the back of my index finger.
👍🏼me too
Actually I think because I position my yarn different I can pick up speed. It’s not flicking or throwing
I knit the same way. I fail when I tried to flick.
having the thread on my left point finger is much easier for me. THIS I just can´t wtf