Very interesting and informative video. Thanks for explaining where the decreases should be placed. I’ve now started to put them in from the edge instead of on the edge. You are so clear about how to do it. I only wish knitting patterns would mention these things.
Hi Roxanne, thank you for the great information about changing sweaters knitted in pieces to the round. I'm not an experience knitter I made my first sweater this past December. I started a summer top which was knitted in pieces I was only able to complete the back and gave up. I'm going to try and knit it again in round using your tips.
I first came cross the term "full-fashioned increase/decrease" in Maggie Righetti's excellent book "Knitting in plain English" (1986). She describes them in terms placement rather than direction.
Interesting. I have her book Designing in Plain English, from 1990, and she only mentions that it's best to place them away from the edge, not giving them any label.
My head is spinning. As a literal and beginning knitter of socks, when pattern said decrease at the end of the row that's what I did at the end of the row. Then I saw some say knit till 3 stitches at the end, decrease and knit. Then I heard people say you never end or begin with a decrease at the edge. Once I kept ripping out my work because it didn't look right but I was following the pattern and found out the pattern was wrong. So now I just redo something a couple 3 or 4 times and if it still turns out the way I first knitted it I just leave it. ha, ha, ha
I have been knitting mindlessly for a long time but this video has great variety of how to improve my garments Wishing I had u for my professor when I was in design FIT never miss anything u suggest watching I definitely want to do A knit along with U😍❤️
An ambiguous term that irks me is "knit thru the back loop." The stitch is one loop. There is no back loop. I could never understand what was meant. Finally I heard someone say "knit thru the back of the loop" and I finally understood what I was supposed to do.
Well it would be nice to have that clarified and all those techniques fully described in the next edition of vogue knitting as they are decorative and add interesting detail to hand knitted fabric. Thanks for raising the issue. I love all that fully fashioned finishing and would love to do more. What is that masters program?
If you go to my channel page and click on the Casual Friday playlist, you'll find one of the early episodes discusses TKGA's Master Hand Knitting program in depth. I believe there are links to various resources down on the description, as well.
I know I'm late to the party but just came across this video. Comments by judges...Yeah. I entered a sweater and some socks into our fair here a few years ago. Comments were "not real knitting" because the item was a seamless knit in the round sweater and the socks were toe up and "missing the kitchener cast off". How is that "not real knitting"? Oh well. Sometimes what they don't do themselves shadows their ideas and causes entrants points rather than looking at the work itself. (One comment was also "the yarn was rough" - I used a local undyed wool rather than say, for example, MadTosh.)
Very interesting video. I find the judging at the knit guild meeting quite strange. I would think that the critiques would focus on all different techniques as opposed to homing in on one specific area for every item. It conjures up a picture in my mind of a bunch of old biddies sitting at a table looking down on the Knitters with stern faces. Like something out of the 1930’s. Please don’t take this the wrong way because in my mind it is like a funny scene out of an old movie. I’m sure in reality it is nothing like that. I just had to share that thought. Thank you VERY much for explaining the “i” up in the corner. I hear about that all the time but was always afraid to hit it because I thought that it would take me out of the video. You are the only one to ever explain it. Your current sweater for your daughter looks beautiful! I love the color and look of the yarn. I have a bunch of Cascade 220 but they are all solids. Thanks also for the explanation of Knitting terms. It does get confusing and I think pointing out about the way directions for decreases at the end of the row will be very helpful for new Knitters. If someone hadn’t taught me how to properly decrease at the end of the row I’m sure I’d be utilizing the last 2 stitches! Your daughters are blessed to have a mom that can make them such beautiful garments! My mom used to knit and crochet blankets for my sister and I. Now we as well as my children and grandchildren are blessed with beautiful handmade quilts! She started doing them about 15 years ago when she moved near my sister. They both do beautiful work. My sister is a painter (pastel) and a goldsmith who is now Knitting with gold! It’s amazing! And my mom at 91 1/2 years old is still going strong! Thanks for another great video!
I have experienced the same ambiguity in hand sewing while I was trying to figure out the TRUE name of the stitch my mother taught me to use to hem a dress. I don't think there is a TRUE name, doggone it!
Hi Roxanne, I knit English style and have been looking for a tutorial on how to do the Norwegian Purl. I only found tutorials on how to do it using Continental style. Is this something that can be done by English style knitters?
It only works with continental style knitting, because the yarn is positioned to the left, essentially at the half-way point for forming a stitch English style. This positioning of the yarn is what allows the knitter to manipulate the needles to form a purl stitch while the yarn is held in place to the left. This simply isn't possible while the yarn is held in the right hand. Each of the moves you do with Norwegian purl would require moving the yarn around the needle when working English style, which means each purl stitch would require 3 moves around the needle.
It never fails that I miss your little info buttons in the top right corner of the screen. Would it be too much work to include the link(s) in the description under your video?
As I mentioned in the video, you can click the i button at the top right of the screen at ANY time (including at the end of the video, when I'm telling people to leave comments). That will bring up little thumbnails of all the videos I mentioned during the course of the video.
Very interesting and informative video. Thanks for explaining where the decreases should be placed. I’ve now started to put them in from the edge instead of on the edge. You are so clear about how to do it. I only wish knitting patterns would mention these things.
Your videos are soooo helpful. The best
Hi Roxanne, thank you for the great information about changing sweaters knitted in pieces to the round. I'm not an experience knitter I made my first sweater this past December. I started a summer top which was knitted in pieces I was only able to complete the back and gave up. I'm going to try and knit it again in round using your tips.
Oh, but why not just do the front, and then conquer the seaming? Knitting the front will only take half as long!
I first came cross the term "full-fashioned increase/decrease" in Maggie Righetti's excellent book "Knitting in plain English" (1986). She describes them in terms placement rather than direction.
Interesting. I have her book Designing in Plain English, from 1990, and she only mentions that it's best to place them away from the edge, not giving them any label.
My head is spinning. As a literal and beginning knitter of socks, when pattern said decrease at the end of the row that's what I did at the end of the row. Then I saw some say knit till 3 stitches at the end, decrease and knit. Then I heard people say you never end or begin with a decrease at the edge. Once I kept ripping out my work because it didn't look right but I was following the pattern and found out the pattern was wrong. So now I just redo something a couple 3 or 4 times and if it still turns out the way I first knitted it I just leave it. ha, ha, ha
I have been knitting mindlessly for a long time but this video has great variety of how to improve my garments
Wishing I had u for my professor when I was in design FIT never miss anything u suggest watching I definitely want to do A knit along with U😍❤️
An ambiguous term that irks me is "knit thru the back loop." The stitch is one loop. There is no back loop. I could never understand what was meant. Finally I heard someone say "knit thru the back of the loop" and I finally understood what I was supposed to do.
Well it would be nice to have that clarified and all those techniques fully described in the next edition of vogue knitting as they are decorative and add interesting detail to hand knitted fabric. Thanks for raising the issue. I love all that fully fashioned finishing and would love to do more. What is that masters program?
If you go to my channel page and click on the Casual Friday playlist, you'll find one of the early episodes discusses TKGA's Master Hand Knitting program in depth. I believe there are links to various resources down on the description, as well.
I know I'm late to the party but just came across this video. Comments by judges...Yeah. I entered a sweater and some socks into our fair here a few years ago. Comments were "not real knitting" because the item was a seamless knit in the round sweater and the socks were toe up and "missing the kitchener cast off". How is that "not real knitting"? Oh well. Sometimes what they don't do themselves shadows their ideas and causes entrants points rather than looking at the work itself. (One comment was also "the yarn was rough" - I used a local undyed wool rather than say, for example, MadTosh.)
Very interesting video. I find the judging at the knit guild meeting quite strange. I would think that the critiques would focus on all different techniques as opposed to homing in on one specific area for every item. It conjures up a picture in my mind of a bunch of old biddies sitting at a table looking down on the Knitters with stern faces. Like something out of the 1930’s. Please don’t take this the wrong way because in my mind it is like a funny scene out of an old movie. I’m sure in reality it is nothing like that. I just had to share that thought. Thank you VERY much for explaining the “i” up in the corner. I hear about that all the time but was always afraid to hit it because I thought that it would take me out of the video. You are the only one to ever explain it. Your current sweater for your daughter looks beautiful! I love the color and look of the yarn. I have a bunch of Cascade 220 but they are all solids. Thanks also for the explanation of Knitting terms. It does get confusing and I think pointing out about the way directions for decreases at the end of the row will be very helpful for new Knitters. If someone hadn’t taught me how to properly decrease at the end of the row I’m sure I’d be utilizing the last 2 stitches! Your daughters are blessed to have a mom that can make them such beautiful garments! My mom used to knit and crochet blankets for my sister and I. Now we as well as my children and grandchildren are blessed with beautiful handmade quilts! She started doing them about 15 years ago when she moved near my sister. They both do beautiful work. My sister is a painter (pastel) and a goldsmith who is now Knitting with gold! It’s amazing! And my mom at 91 1/2 years old is still going strong! Thanks for another great video!
I have experienced the same ambiguity in hand sewing while I was trying to figure out the TRUE name of the stitch my mother taught me to use to hem a dress. I don't think there is a TRUE name, doggone it!
Hi Roxanne, I knit English style and have been looking for a tutorial on how to do the Norwegian Purl. I only found tutorials on how to do it using Continental style. Is this something that can be done by English style knitters?
It only works with continental style knitting, because the yarn is positioned to the left, essentially at the half-way point for forming a stitch English style. This positioning of the yarn is what allows the knitter to manipulate the needles to form a purl stitch while the yarn is held in place to the left. This simply isn't possible while the yarn is held in the right hand. Each of the moves you do with Norwegian purl would require moving the yarn around the needle when working English style, which means each purl stitch would require 3 moves around the needle.
It never fails that I miss your little info buttons in the top right corner of the screen. Would it be too much work to include the link(s) in the description under your video?
As I mentioned in the video, you can click the i button at the top right of the screen at ANY time (including at the end of the video, when I'm telling people to leave comments). That will bring up little thumbnails of all the videos I mentioned during the course of the video.