I know it’s been a few years since you posted this but just wanted to say thank you. I’m learning Irish Cottage style knitting and tensioning was not working with my usual go to. So thanks so very much.
I have started knitting really only recently. I have watched several of your videos these past few days, and simply wanted to express my gratitude for how kindly and generously you guide us all into this wonderful and vast world that is knitting. In addition to their informative quality, I find your videos extraordinarily soothing, and have taken to having them run as I work on a project. You are inspiring me to persevere and be bolder every time I grab my knitting! Thank you for shining brightly and reaching us around the globe. Edith, Canada/Finland
Edith . . . thank you for this kind and lovely comment. I so appreciate hearing from people around the globe. It's exciting for me as I rarely teach in person any more.
I'm a beginner and was struggling trying to find a convenient way to hold my needles and yarn. Although I tried and experimented different ways, I noticed that when I knitted, I held them in some random way and when I purled, I held them in some other random way! And I say random because I kept forgetting how I did it! This video saved my life! I tried it and was a complete success! Thanks for sharing
Thank you and you are so welcome. I'm glad it helps! Have you joined my email newsletter tribe over at cherylbrunette.com yet? If not, I hope you'll consider it. That's where I keep in closest touch with knitters and I give out a ton of good information.
This is 5 years old but I really appreciate this! I am trying to learn to knit as a crocheter because I like the feel/flow of knit fabrics more and I was finding it hard to adjust. I think this video will help me find my rhythm!
I taught myself how to knit back in 1957 when I was pregnant with my first child. All we had then were the little Red Heart booklets, but they had wonderful diagrams in them. And the needles were all Red Heart needles. When I became aware of the "continental" method, I thought I was doing it all wrong. But I was never comfortable with that method, and I did exactly what you have done -- reverted to what I learned as a child. (I also hold my crochet hook "wrong." But, hey, at 75, who cares?) I love your videos. How very kind you are to make them.
Many thanks, been searching for "what knitted items sell best at craft shows" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Veyillian Noncarlett Eradicator - (search on google )? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my co-worker got cool success with it.
My mum said that your suggestion was amazing, my mum is knitting a scarf. She said she wants to thank you so thank you!:) your very smart. Enjoy your knitting skills
That was extremely helpful, thank you! I picked up some new needles last night for the first time in over three years, and was clumsily putting the yarn down and picking it back up for each stitch, I suspect this will greatly increase my speed. On a side note, your hair is simply gorgeous! I hope mine ages as gracefully and beautifully as yours has!
So glad it helped you! I find it painful to watch someone drop his or her yarn with every stitch. And thank you. It's still quite dark at the nape of my neck . . . but it seems to be getting white fast around my face. :)
I'm a very new knitter. Been crocheting for 30 yrs and cannot hold my yarn the same way in knitting for some reason. Find that the way you hold your yarn is much better than what I have been doing, (which is what you described the lady doing at the dr. office) and you're so right it is not very efficient at all. So thank you for having made this video for all us newbies. It is a great help.
You are so welcome Brenda and I'm grateful that it works for you. I have seen lots of professional knitters hold their yarn differently from me. There are lots of successful methods, but once you find one that "fits" for you, it makes things so much easier on your hands and quicker. And thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
I’m going to try this. My aunt came over from Georgia, we were both knitting and she mentioned that I keep dropping the stitch. She showed me how her teacher taught her many years ago when home in Scotland, the same as the way you have taught on this video. I must persevere.
I have watched many videos of people knitting, and this is about the only one I have seen which approximates to the way we knit here in Australia, which apparently you would call "English knitting"! There are many RUclips knitters who obviously are very skillful, who have made beautiful items, but their knitting style looks just so clumsy and inefficient, even RSI-prone! The only reserve I have about this position, is that every time you move the yarn, since your right hand is holding the needle from above, you are letting go of the needle. It is so much more comfortable and efficient I find, to rest the right needle between thumb and hand, pencil-fashion. This makes the needle position more secure, and supports the weight of the knitting as it grows and sometimes becomes very heavy. I crochet with the yarn in my left hand as you do, but the hook on the needle of course, is what pulls the yarn through the loop. I have tried continental knitting, but with the yarn facing away from the slippery needle point, it requires considerable gymnastics to keep it on the needle and make the stitch. Hence the plethora of continental knitting styles to achieve this. But holding the yarn as you do here, the yarn is securely drawn back along the right needle, a simple matter to pull it through the loop. Tensioning is effortless. Just the naturally curled position of the fingers is enough to give a smooth firm fabric, with no need for complex manoeuvres to keep the yarn taut.
My paternal aunts used to knit "pencil-holding" fashion. I tried it as a child and have tried it on occasion as an adult but I'm just so used to my method that I stay with it. I can knit continental style as well but only use it when I am doing stranded two-color knitting. I find I can get pretty good tension that way. Thanks for watching and commenting Ruby.
There's nought so queer as folk, huh! We stick with the most comfortable way of doing things. Mum, grandmother & us daughters all knit the same way, but my Nan cast on with one of the many long tail methods, which I could never get. The rest of us always use 2 needles to cast on (which to us of course is the ONLY possible way), but I have never seen anyone do this on RUclips yet!
Thanks for this video! I am a self learner and have leaved everything via the internet. I was so frustrated that my stitches were of varying sizes and tensions that I packed up my yarn and needles to call it quits. Thinking knitting was not going to be a hobby for me. But I stumbled across your video and decided to give it a try. Your video was a game changer, that I completed a simple dishcloth and it looked good...no wobbly stitches, gaps. dropped stitches. Even though you made this video a few years ago it’s still helping new knitters..Thanks!
You are so welcome cakeladee. Getting an even gauge is something that takes a little practice but it's definitely doable. Have you joined my email newsletter tribe over at cherylbrunette.com yet? If not, I hope you'll consider it. That's where I keep in closest touch with knitters and I give out a ton of good information.
Thank you so much! This has improved my speed and tension so much since I started using this method! I had been trying different ways for a while, but nothing ever worked until I saw your video, so thank you very much for posting this!!!!
+sarahann mason You are so welcome Sarahann. I'm delighted it helped you. Have you joined my knitting newsletter group over at cherylbrunette.com yet? Please do. You get all the news that's fit to print.
thank you so much this really helped me I'm new to knitting so I used to drop and pick my yarn every time and that was really time consuming I greatly appreciate it.
You are so welcome and I'm grateful it has helped you. It really does drive me a little crazy when I see people dropping their yarn with every stitch because it means they didn't have the advantage of a good teacher to help them and it can be frustrating. It's also harder to get even tension when you do that. Thanks for commenting.
Love your video's! When I accidentally stumbled upon one of your video's, I wondered why you - as a pro - use the "British" style and not the "continental". (Which is as "continental" as a continental breakfast) LOL We're in he same age group, so it was only a few years ago that I discovered the continental method on the internet and I'm so happy now! It didn't take me long to learn and where formerly knitting was just a way to create something beautiful, now it actually gives me pleasure. Perhaps I still love crocheting more, but - especially for clothing - the knit results are more beautiful. Like you I've been designing my own patterns for longer than I care to admit, sometimes with a crooked eye on a basic sewing pattern, or a store bought garment. Thank you for sharing yor knowledge so generously!
Corry Helmond Thank you for this great comment Corry. I learned to knit when I was about 4 and did a lot of it starting when I was 7 . . . a lot . . . I was recovering from polio and it was something I could do after being exhausted from physical therapy. (That and read). My mother, my teacher, was a highly skilled and avid knitter and she knit that way, hence, it's easiest for me because it's my "native" style. I can also knit continental style but I have to look at my hands more. When I do color stranding I use both methods, a color in each hand.
Hi, Miss Cheryl. I'm Greek and hold the yarn around my neck or a pin attached to my shirt and use my left thumb to wrap the yarn around the needle. Hugs to you.
Mary, this sounds fascinating to me. I've seen photos of similar techniques but I've never watched anyone knitting in this style. I would love to watch you!
This is exactly the way my mother taught me also. It is such a useful technique. When you teach beginners, do you introduce this right away? It seems like there is so much to learn at first.
Hi Alida. In general, if it's an adult I'm teaching, I teach this right away. When I'm teaching children I am generally teaching a larger group (mixed-age elementary) and I let them get going a little before I come around and show each one how to do it. Sometimes I work with children as young as 6 and they don't always have the small motor skills to start out this way, so I work with a child at his or her level of coordination and interest.
Thank you thisJgirl, for your kind comment and for watching. And certainly thank you for subscribing! It really helps inspire me to make new programs when I think people are actually watching. :)
And one other thing....tutorials are much easier to watch when it’s done the English way rather than the continental. The continental way obstructs the viewers vision when working the stitch
hi can you help me please, when I knit English style my knitting is tight and looks neater, but when I was learning continental style,my knitting was all loosey goosey, my preferred method of Knitting is English style, I was trying to research how to get faster at knitting without dropping the yarn or needle , please help. tanx
I knit English style and sometimes with both hands when I am stranding with 2 colors. My continental style is looser than my throwing. Try wrapping the yarn twice around your little finger. As for knitting faster without dropping the needle, this video is probably my best try to convey how to do that.
I noticed in one of your sweater videos that your 2x2 ribbing has no ladders in it (when transitioning from a knit to a purl). I thought I had that problem because I was an English knitter, but that must not be the case if you knit English-style. Do you have any tips for knitting nice, tight ribbing?
ccaatthheerriinnee Without watching you knit and seeing the result in person I can't give you a definitive answer but I can guess. We tend to do little, unconscious things with our hands when we knit. I've seen people, for example, knit a stockinette sweater and one side is much longer than the other (going from a knit to purl row as opposed to going from a purl to knit row).So you have a ladder going knit to purl. You bring the yarn to the front . . . are you not bringing it far enough to the right (although this is what we throwers do). It probably has something to do with how you're moving the yarn from back to front and/or vice versa. Start paying attention to that transition point and try a few different angles on the yarn. Let me know what you discover.
I’m gonna try this cuz I’m a new knitter and I knit british style as well. I drop my yarn each time and I try to hold my yarn in a smart way but it never works. Almost like I don’t have enough fingers lol
It takes a little getting used to but it is so much more efficient that dropping the yarn and picking it back up. Once you have the muscle memory of it, it will become second nature. Have you joined my email newsletter tribe over at cherylbrunette.com yet? If not, I hope you'll consider it. That's where I keep in closest touch with knitters and I give out a ton of good information.
Knitting with Cheryl Brunette I actually just tried too after coming across it in another video. But when I went to type it in the letters I was typing didn’t show up and I didn’t even know if I was typing in the correct box cuz “ name “ and “email” wasn’t coming up
Kathleen! I'm sorry I missed this. When someone responds to one of my comments it doesn't come up in an obvious place at the top of my comments list. Only the first-time comments appear at the top of the list. If you email me at cb@cherylbrunette.com with your information, I will add you manually.
You are so welcome Anne. I'm glad it helped. Have you joined my email newsletter tribe over at cherylbrunette.com yet? If not, I hope you'll consider it. That's where I keep in closest touch with knitters and I give out a ton of good information.
You are so welcome Sandy. Have you joined my email newsletter tribe over at cherylbrunette.com yet? If not, I hope you'll consider it. That's where I keep in closest touch with knitters and you'll get lots of good info.
I might be the freak here but this doesn't work. I literally cannot hold on to the yarn in my hand any way because no matter what technique I might use, my hand always seems to keep sliding down the yarn and I have to move it back up and basically, I have to let go and go back up to the needles each time, holding the needle against my stomach real quick. How the fuck do people do this. Maybe that's my knitting takes a while.
I think it's a matter of training yourself to pay attention and to try out different things. I, for example, am not good at holding it tight in my left hand when I'm doing two-fisted stranded knitting. However, when I crochet, I hold it the same way in my left hand and it always works. You might try different ways of wrapping the yarn through your fingers. This is certainly not the only way.
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I know it’s been a few years since you posted this but just wanted to say thank you. I’m learning Irish Cottage style knitting and tensioning was not working with my usual go to. So thanks so very much.
You are so welcome Lori. One thing about knitting is that the basic technology is pretty stable.
I have started knitting really only recently. I have watched several of your videos these past few days, and simply wanted to express my gratitude for how kindly and generously you guide us all into this wonderful and vast world that is knitting. In addition to their informative quality, I find your videos extraordinarily soothing, and have taken to having them run as I work on a project. You are inspiring me to persevere and be bolder every time I grab my knitting! Thank you for shining brightly and reaching us around the globe.
Edith, Canada/Finland
Edith . . . thank you for this kind and lovely comment. I so appreciate hearing from people around the globe. It's exciting for me as I rarely teach in person any more.
I'm a beginner and was struggling trying to find a convenient way to hold my needles and yarn. Although I tried and experimented different ways, I noticed that when I knitted, I held them in some random way and when I purled, I held them in some other random way! And I say random because I kept forgetting how I did it! This video saved my life! I tried it and was a complete success! Thanks for sharing
Thank you and you are so welcome. I'm glad it helps! Have you joined my email newsletter tribe over at cherylbrunette.com yet? If not, I hope you'll consider it. That's where I keep in closest
touch with knitters and I give out a ton of good information.
This sounds fun! I'll make sure I do. : )
This is 5 years old but I really appreciate this! I am trying to learn to knit as a crocheter because I like the feel/flow of knit fabrics more and I was finding it hard to adjust. I think this video will help me find my rhythm!
Great Kay. By the way . . . the technique was taught to me over 65 years ago. These things don't go out of style. :)
I taught myself how to knit back in 1957 when I was pregnant with my first child. All we had then were the little Red Heart booklets, but they had wonderful diagrams in them. And the needles were all Red Heart needles.
When I became aware of the "continental" method, I thought I was doing it all wrong. But I was never comfortable with that method, and I did exactly what you have done -- reverted to what I learned as a child. (I also hold my crochet hook "wrong." But, hey, at 75, who cares?)
I love your videos. How very kind you are to make them.
Great Post! You always have been one to teach yourself things. :)
Thank you for watching and how very kind you are to comment. :) p.s. I'm not sure there IS a "wrong" way to do this stuff.
Thanks Shelley. Yes. I'm an inveterate student. I still love learning.
Many thanks, been searching for "what knitted items sell best at craft shows" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Veyillian Noncarlett Eradicator - (search on google )? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my co-worker got cool success with it.
My mum said that your suggestion was amazing, my mum is knitting a scarf. She said she wants to thank you so thank you!:) your very smart. Enjoy your knitting skills
@Terrence Wesson nice bit of useless info on a knitting tutorial
That was extremely helpful, thank you! I picked up some new needles last night for the first time in over three years, and was clumsily putting the yarn down and picking it back up for each stitch, I suspect this will greatly increase my speed.
On a side note, your hair is simply gorgeous! I hope mine ages as gracefully and beautifully as yours has!
So glad it helped you! I find it painful to watch someone drop his or her yarn with every stitch.
And thank you. It's still quite dark at the nape of my neck . . . but it seems to be getting white fast around my face. :)
I'm a very new knitter. Been crocheting for 30 yrs and cannot hold my yarn the same way in knitting for some reason. Find that the way you hold your yarn is much better than what I have been doing, (which is what you described the lady doing at the dr. office) and you're so right it is not very efficient at all. So thank you for having made this video for all us newbies. It is a great help.
You are so welcome Brenda and I'm grateful that it works for you. I have seen lots of professional knitters hold their yarn differently from me. There are lots of successful methods, but once you find one that "fits" for you, it makes things so much easier on your hands and quicker. And thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
I’m going to try this. My aunt came over from Georgia, we were both knitting and she mentioned that I keep dropping the stitch. She showed me how her teacher taught her many years ago when home in Scotland, the same as the way you have taught on this video. I must persevere.
I have watched many videos of people knitting, and this is about the only one I have seen which approximates to the way we knit here in Australia, which apparently you would call "English knitting"!
There are many RUclips knitters who obviously are very skillful, who have made beautiful items, but their knitting style looks just so clumsy and inefficient, even RSI-prone!
The only reserve I have about this position, is that every time you move the yarn, since your right hand is holding the needle from above, you are letting go of the needle. It is so much more comfortable and efficient I find, to rest the right needle between thumb and hand, pencil-fashion. This makes the needle position more secure, and supports the weight of the knitting as it grows and sometimes becomes very heavy.
I crochet with the yarn in my left hand as you do, but the hook on the needle of course, is what pulls the yarn through the loop. I have tried continental knitting, but with the yarn facing away from the slippery needle point, it requires considerable gymnastics to keep it on the needle and make the stitch. Hence the plethora of continental knitting styles to achieve this.
But holding the yarn as you do here, the yarn is securely drawn back along the right needle, a simple matter to pull it through the loop. Tensioning is effortless. Just the naturally curled position of the fingers is enough to give a smooth firm fabric, with no need for complex manoeuvres to keep the yarn taut.
My paternal aunts used to knit "pencil-holding" fashion. I tried it as a child and have tried it on occasion as an adult but I'm just so used to my method that I stay with it. I can knit continental style as well but only use it when I am doing stranded two-color knitting. I find I can get pretty good tension that way. Thanks for watching and commenting Ruby.
There's nought so queer as folk, huh! We stick with the most comfortable way of doing things. Mum, grandmother & us daughters all knit the same way, but my Nan cast on with one of the many long tail methods, which I could never get. The rest of us always use 2 needles to cast on (which to us of course is the ONLY possible way), but I have never seen anyone do this on RUclips yet!
Thanks for this video! I am a self learner and have leaved everything via the internet. I was so frustrated that my stitches were of varying sizes and tensions that I packed up my yarn and needles to call it quits. Thinking knitting was not going to be a hobby for me. But I stumbled across your video and decided to give it a try. Your video was a game changer, that I completed a simple dishcloth and it looked good...no wobbly stitches, gaps. dropped stitches. Even though you made this video a few years ago it’s still helping new knitters..Thanks!
You are so welcome cakeladee. Getting an even gauge is something that takes a little practice but it's definitely doable. Have you joined my email newsletter tribe over at cherylbrunette.com
yet? If not, I hope you'll consider it. That's where I keep in closest touch with knitters and I give out a ton of good information.
Thank you so much! This has improved my speed and tension so much since I started using this method! I had been trying different ways for a while, but nothing ever worked until I saw your video, so thank you very much for posting this!!!!
+sarahann mason You are so welcome Sarahann. I'm delighted it helped you. Have you joined my knitting newsletter group over at cherylbrunette.com yet? Please do. You get all the news that's fit to print.
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This is the only video about holding yarn that actually makes sense to me. Thank you!
You are so welcome Stacey! It's not the only way to hold yarn but it works for me.
thank you so much this really helped me I'm new to knitting so I used to drop and pick my yarn every time and that was really time consuming I greatly appreciate it.
You are so welcome and I'm grateful it has helped you. It really does drive me a little crazy when I see people dropping their yarn with every stitch because it means they didn't have the advantage of a good teacher to help them and it can be frustrating. It's also harder to get even tension when you do that. Thanks for commenting.
Love your video's!
When I accidentally stumbled upon one of your video's, I wondered why you - as a pro - use the "British" style and not the "continental". (Which is as "continental" as a continental breakfast) LOL
We're in he same age group, so it was only a few years ago that I discovered the continental method on the internet and I'm so happy now! It didn't take me long to learn and where formerly knitting was just a way to create something beautiful, now it actually gives me pleasure.
Perhaps I still love crocheting more, but - especially for clothing - the knit results are more beautiful.
Like you I've been designing my own patterns for longer than I care to admit, sometimes with a crooked eye on a basic sewing pattern, or a store bought garment.
Thank you for sharing yor knowledge so generously!
Corry Helmond Thank you for this great comment Corry. I learned to knit when I was about 4 and did a lot of it starting when I was 7 . . . a lot . . . I was recovering from polio and it was something I could do after being exhausted from physical therapy. (That and read). My mother, my teacher, was a highly skilled and avid knitter and she knit that way, hence, it's easiest for me because it's my "native" style. I can also knit continental style but I have to look at my hands more. When I do color stranding I use both methods, a color in each hand.
I loved the way you explained both styles !! Loved the pinky and around !!
Thank you. I struggled with ways to hold the yarn while knitting.
Hi, Miss Cheryl. I'm Greek and hold the yarn around my neck or a pin attached to my shirt and use my left thumb to wrap the yarn around the needle. Hugs to you.
Mary, this sounds fascinating to me. I've seen photos of similar techniques but I've never watched anyone knitting in this style. I would love to watch you!
Perfect. Exactly what my wife was looking for. Thank you 😊😊😊
This is exactly the way my mother taught me also. It is such a useful technique. When you teach beginners, do you introduce this right away? It seems like there is so much to learn at first.
Hi Alida. In general, if it's an adult I'm teaching, I teach this right away. When I'm teaching children I am generally teaching a larger group (mixed-age elementary) and I let them get going a little before I come around and show each one how to do it. Sometimes I work with children as young as 6 and they don't always have the small motor skills to start out this way, so I work with a child at his or her level of coordination and interest.
I did the same as the lady in the dentists office. Slow! Going to try this. Have to unlearn what I’ve been doing for years.
Those straights are so pretty..as is that gorgeous scarf..
Thank you Sandy. The scarf was one of those endless "waiting in the doctor's office" projects . . . not for me but for friends and family.
Your videos are so clear and concise, very easy to understand. You definitely have a new subscriber today : )
Thank you thisJgirl, for your kind comment and for watching. And certainly thank you for subscribing! It really helps inspire me to make new programs when I think people are actually watching. :)
And one other thing....tutorials are much easier to watch when it’s done the English way rather than the continental. The continental way obstructs the viewers vision when working the stitch
I thank you and your Mom. Very clear and well explained process.
Thank you for this - a definite improvement over how I've been doing it!
Sarah Faber You are welcome and thank you for watching and commenting.
I love this idea but just can’t make it work. Any ideas??
Thank you mam.may God bless you
This is such a beautiful video. I love you! Xxx iv learned so much so easily! Xxx
Thank you for this kind comment Claire.
hi can you help me please, when I knit English style my knitting is tight and looks neater, but when I was learning continental style,my knitting was all loosey goosey, my preferred method of Knitting is English style, I was trying to research how to get faster at knitting without dropping the yarn or needle , please help. tanx
I knit English style and sometimes with both hands when I am stranding with 2 colors. My continental style is looser than my throwing. Try wrapping the yarn twice around your little finger. As for knitting faster without dropping the needle, this video is probably my best try to convey how to do that.
Thank you.
I noticed in one of your sweater videos that your 2x2 ribbing has no ladders in it (when transitioning from a knit to a purl). I thought I had that problem because I was an English knitter, but that must not be the case if you knit English-style. Do you have any tips for knitting nice, tight ribbing?
ccaatthheerriinnee Without watching you knit and seeing the result in person I can't give you a definitive answer but I can guess. We tend to do little, unconscious things with our hands when we knit. I've seen people, for example, knit a stockinette sweater and one side is much longer than the other (going from a knit to purl row as opposed to going from a purl to knit row).So you have a ladder going knit to purl. You bring the yarn to the front . . . are you not bringing it far enough to the right (although this is what we throwers do). It probably has something to do with how you're moving the yarn from back to front and/or vice versa. Start paying attention to that transition point and try a few different angles on the yarn. Let me know what you discover.
I’m gonna try this cuz I’m a new knitter and I knit british style as well. I drop my yarn each time and I try to hold my yarn in a smart way but it never works. Almost like I don’t have enough fingers lol
It takes a little getting used to but it is so much more efficient that dropping the yarn and picking it back up. Once you have the muscle memory of it, it will become second nature.
Have you joined my email newsletter tribe over at cherylbrunette.com yet? If not, I hope you'll consider it. That's where I keep in closest touch with knitters and I give out a ton of good information.
Knitting with Cheryl Brunette I actually just tried too after coming across it in another video. But when I went to type it in the letters I was typing didn’t show up and I didn’t even know if I was typing in the correct box cuz “ name “ and “email” wasn’t coming up
Kathleen! I'm sorry I missed this. When someone responds to one of my comments it doesn't come up in an obvious place at the top of my comments list. Only the first-time comments appear at the top of the list. If you email me at cb@cherylbrunette.com with your information, I will add you manually.
Thanks so much! This was very helpful!!!
You are so welcome Anne. I'm glad it helped. Have you joined my email newsletter tribe over at cherylbrunette.com yet? If not, I hope you'll consider it. That's where I keep in closest touch with knitters and I give out a ton of good information.
Cheryl, how do I stop my knitting from curling up at the sides and bottoms? Im a beginner!
Watch this video: The Dreaded Stockinette Curl
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
You are so welcome Sandy. Have you joined my email newsletter tribe over at cherylbrunette.com yet? If not, I hope you'll consider it. That's where I keep in closest touch with knitters and you'll get lots of good info.
I was taught by my mother to knit and crochet. Stuff the continental way. Only way ‘continental’ way comes into my life is when I make soup!
thank you
Maddie K. You are welcome. And thank you for watching and commenting.
I'll see if my children could tape this for me :)
Perfect! Thank you.
I might be the freak here but this doesn't work. I literally cannot hold on to the yarn in my hand any way because no matter what technique I might use, my hand always seems to keep sliding down the yarn and I have to move it back up and basically, I have to let go and go back up to the needles each time, holding the needle against my stomach real quick. How the fuck do people do this. Maybe that's my knitting takes a while.
I think it's a matter of training yourself to pay attention and to try out different things. I, for example, am not good at holding it tight in my left hand when I'm doing two-fisted stranded knitting. However, when I crochet, I hold it the same way in my left hand and it always works. You might try different ways of wrapping the yarn through your fingers. This is certainly not the only way.
H