Continental knitting demo
21st
Sep
2011
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Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood, host of the CraftSanity podcast, visits Lorilee Beltman, owner of City knitting in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a quick “Continental” knitting lesson. As a veteran “thrower” or English style knitter, Jennifer didn’t want to pass up the opportunity to see how the other half knit. She brought her video camera along to record the tutorial for all of you.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Nice demonstration, however you make throwers look inept at knitting. Not all “English” knitters move thier whole hand around the needle like that. I hold my yarn exactly as you do for “picking” but in my right hand, only my finger moves as I wrap the yarn. I can turn my work and do all those other stitches without letting go of my positioning just as you do in continental. I think what your are seeing with people that throw their yarn like that is that they have been improperly taugh
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong…I am just learning so I want to knit several rows and master that before I move on to perling. But what it turns out is that I am knitting one row then perling the next…but I am not changing how I am doing anything!! Why is this happening??
The purl stitch was a little too fast for me.
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wow, this finally makes sense. i’ll try it. i learned how to knit with the english method.
BRILLIANT !
I love this video. I normally knit in the English Method, and have carpul tunnel in both hands. Now that I’ve learned how to knit the Continental way, it gives my wrists a break. Thank you so much for posting this.
Kerry S. Nashville
This is the first Continental demo I’ve seen with the first finger “up” that makes any sense. I knit with my yarn finger on the needle (I haven’t seen any other people doing it that way here though), but get the yarn over the needle with a gentle rock of the wrist. This also lets me purl with less movement. (Just did 2 videos to demonstrate my knit/purl to a friend.)
As someone who mainly crochets, this is a fantastic tutorial!! Will certainly hae a go
This is a great tutorial! I have been practising for about an hour now, and already I am much faster and it is so much easier ans smoother. At first, I found it hard because my stitches were twisted the worng way (is that normal), so to put the needle in was hard, and i had to slip and re slip to un twist each stitch as I went along, which took a while…. Anyway, thanks so much!
looks great hope I can do it.
This is a fantastic video! Unfortunately, I can’t do it because of my thumb tendinitis in my left hand – I’m a left who knits righty though. I think it would be great for a righty to get a break from using their right hand all the time
Thank you. This is beautifully clear. I’ll be trying this method with my Fan-stitch wrap I’m about to start.