I've been knitting for over 30 years, in many different styles, but I had never seen this whole hand wrap tensioning technique. I tried it out while knitting a swatch and I LOVED IT! It seems to add a bit of extra twist to the yarn as I knit, and is so much less fiddly, so I am knitting faster. I'm using this technique to knit up a pair of socks on 9" circular needles right now and it is such a game changer. Thank you for sharing!
Hey! Aw that's so great that you tried it out tensioning the yarn by wrapping it around your hand and that it's a game changer for you. Reading your comment just made my day 😊 thank you. Happy Knitting
I came up with almost the exact same method. I wrap my yarn in an indescribable way through my fingers and complete a stitch in one coordinated movement. It is at least as quick as continental. I never knew what it is called though. It is very enjoyable. I also enjoyed your video.
This is how I do my tension for knitting as well! I have never seen anyone else wrap their hand like this for tension before. It's nice to see someone else using them tension method...
Interesting to know this is what my knitting style is called! Seeing this made me examine my knitting more closely. I personally tension just with my pinky (tried your hand wrapping but found it too fiddly) so I can quickly re-tension when needed. I bend my right middle finger and tuck behind the needle along with my ring and pinky fingers. I use my left index finger to push the right needle out and overall use my left hand to work as much as the right hand. As I flick, I slightly rotate my left hand towards myself and I find this slight adjustment makes my flicking less erratic (lessening how pointed needles catch my sleeve) and just helps me balance the movements across both hands more effectively. This is something I just started doing so hopefully it doesn’t cause my left wrist a problem, but I’ll see in time.
I'm an English knitter to, a flicker too, but I do not need to wrap the yarn around my hand, only around my pinky and around my index forefinger. A lot faster, a lot less letting go and wrap again.
Danke, genauso stricke ich seit meiner Kindheit und stricke mit 86 Jahren immer noch so. Der kleine Finger reguliert die Spannstärke mit jeder Masche und so hab ich ein sehr gleichmäßiges Strickbild. Kein Doppelwickeln nötig. Sehr schnelles Stricken ist so möglich. 🤗
I flick this way as well but I don't throw the yard with the right hand, too much movement. Instead I use my left forefinger to grab the fairly tightly held yarn on right hand to pull the yarn through to make the stitch. Try it. 😊
I LOVE to watch flicking but am not a huge fan of the "pivot" of the needle, so I do a slightly modified version of this but instead of holding my right needle over hand, I hold it like a pencil (underhanded, balanced in the web of my thumb) and all I have to do to create the same fluid movement is straighten out my fingers and it wraps the yarn tip perfectly without needing to pivot. It's the exact same movement for the pearl stitch. I also wrap my yarn around my pinky, and ring finger on my right hand and then the yarn is laying between the needle and my index finger. I enter the stitch and make a quick (also flick type) movement by simply straightening out my fingers = tip wrapped! I'll probably end up doing a tutorial for it since I've literally never seen anyone (even on youtube) do it quite like I do, but I feel it's a smooth (dare I say "easier") modification since the pivot never comes into play. I disliked the need to pivot while I was trying to get comfortable with flicking. All I had to do was simply change my right hand grip to an underhanded (pencil style grip since I'm already SUPER comfortable holding a writing instrument) and BAM!!! THAT was my instant game changer since I was able to get comfortable with it literally instantly rather than an overhanded grip needing to practice never missing the yarn while you're trying to perfect the "pivot." It also completely eliminates "thumb fatigue" from the overhanded grip and pivot.
@@wonderfulworldofknitting Your tension method is not working as well as you imagine. After every few stitches, you are letting go of the needle to pull more yarn over your hand.
Yes!! This is true English knitting, which so very few RUclipsrs understand at all. It's almost never seen here, and often described wrongly, but everyone I know knits this way in Australia. We teach small children to let go of the needle as they wrap the yarn, but when their coordination improves, they quickly learn to hold the needle pencil style,with right thumb beneath the fabric, and only the tip of the forefinger needs to move for both knit and purl stitches. Looping the pinky finger through the yarn is the most effective way of tensioning. The slightest adjustment of the finger allows yarn to flow through smoothly, or to be held taut. It becomes automatic.
Instead of wrapping around the whole hand, try to wrap yarn around your little finger and put your thumb under the needle in a way that the needle cradles between the thumb and index finger . Hold the needle with your thumb and support the yarn with index finger and knit . Don't keep your index finger up in the air like you're doing in the video You can knit way faster if you try these tips
Hello Rodney, Yes you are right, I had to let go a few times in order to release more yarn. This is because during demonstration I was knitting with my hands on a desk and that isn't my usual comfortable knitting position. Plus the working yarn was coming from the floor so wasn't released easily. Normally when I sit and knit the yarn ball is right next to me and is released without having to pull it so I can knit continuously. Hope that makes sense. Happy Knitting 🙂
I flick as demonstrated in this video as well. I am left-handed and need to anchor the fabric and control the stitch movement on the needle with that hand. I iron this way as well: my right hand moves the iron and moves about and my left hand holds the fabric.
Then it wouldn't be English style 🤣. I've tried continental and got fairly fast at it, but my tension is all over the place and it feels like it takes way more mental exertion for me, and after trying both ways a lot (I've done double knitting and fair isle which require holding a strand of yarn in each hand too, which really illuminates the difference for me) - I can assure you that holding the yarn in my right hand and flicking always ends up being faster for me and is what I naturally default to 🤷🏼♀️. I like how the working yarn being on the same side "locks" new stitches in place more, and flicking the yarn round the needle rather than picking the yarn from the opposite hand ends up much more consistent and doesn't hurt my hands/wrists like continental can
Why are you so hostile? There is no stupid way of knitting if it works for someone. A LOT of people knit with their yarn in the right hand and flick to create a new stitch. I can knit with the yarn in either hand, it makes more sense to knit continental style for some stitch patterns, and double knitting is a hell of a lot easier if you can hold a strand in each hand... But I always default to knitting closer to English style, holding the yarn in my right hand and flicking it while moving the needles to create a stitch in a fluid motion. I dunno if it's so ingrained because I was taught to hold the yarn in my right hand from the beginning when I was ~4-5 years old or what, but that's how everyone around me knitted too and they were fast, skilled knitters 🤷🏼♀️. I can crochet too so it's not like I can't tension with my left hand, but my hand movement is different for crochet and knitting and having the yarn in a different hand for each just works better for me 😂
I've been knitting for over 30 years, in many different styles, but I had never seen this whole hand wrap tensioning technique. I tried it out while knitting a swatch and I LOVED IT! It seems to add a bit of extra twist to the yarn as I knit, and is so much less fiddly, so I am knitting faster. I'm using this technique to knit up a pair of socks on 9" circular needles right now and it is such a game changer. Thank you for sharing!
Hey! Aw that's so great that you tried it out tensioning the yarn by wrapping it around your hand and that it's a game changer for you. Reading your comment just made my day 😊 thank you. Happy Knitting
I’ve never seen the pivot point mentioned before! And I’ve watched a lot of flicking videos! Thank you!!
Glad it helps you. Happy Knitting
I came up with almost the exact same method. I wrap my yarn in an indescribable way through my fingers and complete a stitch in one coordinated movement. It is at least as quick as continental. I never knew what it is called though. It is very enjoyable. I also enjoyed your video.
Thank you for your feedback, Nancy. Happy Knitting
This is how I do my tension for knitting as well! I have never seen anyone else wrap their hand like this for tension before. It's nice to see someone else using them tension method...
Hey Dianna, good to hear that you also tension your yarn this way and I'm not alone in that haha. It does work well for me too. Happy Knitting ☺
Interesting to know this is what my knitting style is called! Seeing this made me examine my knitting more closely. I personally tension just with my pinky (tried your hand wrapping but found it too fiddly) so I can quickly re-tension when needed. I bend my right middle finger and tuck behind the needle along with my ring and pinky fingers. I use my left index finger to push the right needle out and overall use my left hand to work as much as the right hand. As I flick, I slightly rotate my left hand towards myself and I find this slight adjustment makes my flicking less erratic (lessening how pointed needles catch my sleeve) and just helps me balance the movements across both hands more effectively. This is something I just started doing so hopefully it doesn’t cause my left wrist a problem, but I’ll see in time.
Interesting to hear how you tension the yarn; good luck in that 😀
I'm an English knitter to, a flicker too, but I do not need to wrap the yarn around my hand, only around my pinky and around my index forefinger. A lot faster, a lot less letting go and wrap again.
Danke, genauso stricke ich seit meiner Kindheit und stricke mit 86 Jahren immer noch so. Der kleine Finger reguliert die Spannstärke mit jeder Masche und so hab ich ein sehr gleichmäßiges Strickbild. Kein Doppelwickeln nötig. Sehr schnelles Stricken ist so möglich. 🤗
Yes just using the pink!
I LOVE this style. So much that I might take up knitting again. Which I had earlier thought was too clumsy and cluttered with the needles for me.
Glad you like it; definitely go for it and start knitting again. Have fun - it's such a beautiful craft.
thank you soooooooo much. it is very helpfull.regards from ankara
Glad this video helps you. 😀
I flick this way as well but I don't throw the yard with the right hand, too much movement. Instead I use my left forefinger to grab the fairly tightly held yarn on right hand to pull the yarn through to make the stitch. Try it. 😊
Heya, I will try that out! Thanks for the tip 😃
I LOVE to watch flicking but am not a huge fan of the "pivot" of the needle, so I do a slightly modified version of this but instead of holding my right needle over hand, I hold it like a pencil (underhanded, balanced in the web of my thumb) and all I have to do to create the same fluid movement is straighten out my fingers and it wraps the yarn tip perfectly without needing to pivot. It's the exact same movement for the pearl stitch. I also wrap my yarn around my pinky, and ring finger on my right hand and then the yarn is laying between the needle and my index finger.
I enter the stitch and make a quick (also flick type) movement by simply straightening out my fingers = tip wrapped! I'll probably end up doing a tutorial for it since I've literally never seen anyone (even on youtube) do it quite like I do, but I feel it's a smooth (dare I say "easier") modification since the pivot never comes into play. I disliked the need to pivot while I was trying to get comfortable with flicking. All I had to do was simply change my right hand grip to an underhanded (pencil style grip since I'm already SUPER comfortable holding a writing instrument) and BAM!!! THAT was my instant game changer since I was able to get comfortable with it literally instantly rather than an overhanded grip needing to practice never missing the yarn while you're trying to perfect the "pivot." It also completely eliminates "thumb fatigue" from the overhanded grip and pivot.
Mh interesting, the way you hold the needles, tension the yarn. There are so many variations. thanks for your comment 🙂
@@wonderfulworldofknitting
Your tension method is not working as well as you imagine. After every few stitches, you are letting go of the needle to pull more yarn over your hand.
Yes!!
This is true English knitting, which so very few RUclipsrs understand at all. It's almost never seen here, and often described wrongly, but everyone I know knits this way in Australia.
We teach small children to let go of the needle as they wrap the yarn, but when their coordination improves, they quickly learn to hold the needle pencil style,with right thumb beneath the fabric, and only the tip of the forefinger needs to move for both knit and purl stitches.
Looping the pinky finger through the yarn is the most effective way of tensioning. The slightest adjustment of the finger allows yarn to flow through smoothly, or to be held taut. It becomes automatic.
Thanks for this information
Glad it helps you 🙂
I'm going to try
Weder schnell noch gleichmäßig!!
😍
Instead of wrapping around the whole hand, try to wrap yarn around your little finger and put your thumb under the needle in a way that the needle cradles between the thumb and index finger . Hold the needle with your thumb and support the yarn with index finger and knit . Don't keep your index finger up in the air like you're doing in the video
You can knit way faster if you try these tips
Thank you for the suggestion, I will try that.
How do you flick the purl?
Retweet like is it even possible
This is so helpful to me. Thank you so much.
Glad it helped you 😀
I can do this for the knit stitch, but purling is more difficult for me. Any suggestions?
Hey! The only suggestion I have is to keep trying the Purl stitch using this technique. Good Luck!
I notice that you have yto let the needle go every third or fourth stitch to adjust your tension. That is a lot of letting go.
Hello Rodney, Yes you are right, I had to let go a few times in order to release more yarn. This is because during demonstration I was knitting with my hands on a desk and that isn't my usual comfortable knitting position. Plus the working yarn was coming from the floor so wasn't released easily. Normally when I sit and knit the yarn ball is right next to me and is released without having to pull it so I can knit continuously. Hope that makes sense. Happy Knitting 🙂
Which needles are you using, as in name brand. Thanks for the vid.
Hey! I use the Chiaogoo Needles - they are the best I find.
I love my Chiaogoo needles also!
Weder schnell noch gleichmässig
As an English person with an English surname this method of knitting is the most natural to me.
Same here - I tried continental a few times and just cannot do it
@@wonderfulworldofknitting what brand of needle were you using in this tutorial?
@@joysoriano2825 Hi Joy, I used the Chiaogoo Interchangeable needles.
As a european person i think it is incredibly stupid to cast yarn on a needle.
@@bambinaforever1402 as a European person I really don't care how other people cast on
If you let the yarn come from your left hand, its much faster !
I flick as demonstrated in this video as well. I am left-handed and need to anchor the fabric and control the stitch movement on the needle with that hand. I iron this way as well: my right hand moves the iron and moves about and my left hand holds the fabric.
Then it wouldn't be English style 🤣. I've tried continental and got fairly fast at it, but my tension is all over the place and it feels like it takes way more mental exertion for me, and after trying both ways a lot (I've done double knitting and fair isle which require holding a strand of yarn in each hand too, which really illuminates the difference for me) - I can assure you that holding the yarn in my right hand and flicking always ends up being faster for me and is what I naturally default to 🤷🏼♀️. I like how the working yarn being on the same side "locks" new stitches in place more, and flicking the yarn round the needle rather than picking the yarn from the opposite hand ends up much more consistent and doesn't hurt my hands/wrists like continental can
Das ist doch nicht schnell!!
it's another way of saying knit n purl no difference!
Horrible
The STUPIDEST way of knitting. The american way. I was always thinking why would anyone do such a thing.
Why are you so hostile? There is no stupid way of knitting if it works for someone. A LOT of people knit with their yarn in the right hand and flick to create a new stitch. I can knit with the yarn in either hand, it makes more sense to knit continental style for some stitch patterns, and double knitting is a hell of a lot easier if you can hold a strand in each hand... But I always default to knitting closer to English style, holding the yarn in my right hand and flicking it while moving the needles to create a stitch in a fluid motion. I dunno if it's so ingrained because I was taught to hold the yarn in my right hand from the beginning when I was ~4-5 years old or what, but that's how everyone around me knitted too and they were fast, skilled knitters 🤷🏼♀️. I can crochet too so it's not like I can't tension with my left hand, but my hand movement is different for crochet and knitting and having the yarn in a different hand for each just works better for me 😂