I like to visit Fountain's Abbey or Bolton Abbey whenever I'm back in England and this series has really made me appreciate the structure of these abbeys even more. Great job. And just beautiful way to show what it would have looked like.
I'd call myself a "continental flicker". I use the first finger on my left hand to wrap the yarn around the needles similar to english flickers. My gague is on the tighter side, typically 9-10 sitiches/1" on socks depending on the plumpness of the fingering weight. I tend to work closer to the tips of the needles with about 1/2" of yarn from finger to needle tip.
I'm a continental knitter and I knit pretty tightly! I'm also a mirror knitter and I learned to tension with crochet first (as a child). I do appreciate my English knitting when I knit in colorwork.
Hello Dan and Kay!!! I knit continental and how I weave the yarn through my fingers I have a good tight tension… but I do tend to need to go down a needle size for socks because I don’t like the feeling of air on my fleeting seeing through the stitches… however on sweaters I consistently get gauge of the throwers:) Great to see you again, I haven’t watch podcasts in a couple years but I am happy to say yours is still one of my favourites❤❤❤❤
I just love the monastery series that you’ve filmed for us. It is just so well done, I think. I enjoy learning about the history and I enjoy seeing all the scenery, too. Thank you so much for the wonderful videos.
Always a pleasure when I see a new video from you. Life definitely gets busy, don’t stress, do what you can. Knitting should be our happy place, not another source of stress.
I taught myself to knit 20+ years ago & for years I knit continental with my own twist (can't describe it but people would comment on how I would hold my needles "funny") and my tension would waver between tight & loose...but for the last year or so I've been knitting Norwegian and my tension is right in the middle. 🙂
Good morning from Newfoundland Canada Pooh got socks that is so cute love both of your work just sitting and crocheting and i got to finish my socks today cold out here rain and bit wind home i stay
As someone who used to live and is from North Yorkshire ( live in Cumbria now)and visited Fountains Abby more times than I can remember, this has been fascinating. I have learnt so much more than all my many, many previous visits. Thank you for taking us all along with you Dan. I am new to your channel ( where have I been !!!🙈) and now have the joy of going through all your previous vlogs………lucky me 😁
I knit Continental - my gauge is the same on my knits and my purls. I used to have too tight purls and had to concentrate on loosening them up a bit to match my knits. I don’t actually pick - I use my left index finger to flick the yarn for both knits and purls - down farther for the purls. The flicking is much easier on my right wrist than picking. I’ve had issues with my wrists for decades, so have had to learn to loosen up, and minimize twisting them whenever possible. When doing colorwork, I knit one color English, and one or two colors Continental. :)
I am a continental knitter and I don't tension my yarn (I don't pick yarn). So, my technique has me wrapping my yarn around my needle, but using my left hand. I have a very even tension, on both knit and purl side. I am also a looser knitter, when I tension my yarn, it is quite tight and my hands get fatigued.
Can't believe there is only 1 more episode left of the Rise + Fall of the monasteries. I know of a few Misericordia hospitals here in Canada but it pronounced differently on the third syllable. I would definitely watch your videos while touring sites in England and gasp if I saw Dan recording an episode! I have crocheted for decades and have knit English style since 2020. Have tried continental and Norwegian but cannot get it - poor left hand coordination. I crochet and knit very loosely and perhaps have made gauge once in my life. I use 2.25mm needles for socks and occasionally use 2.75mm. Only 1 pair of circulars for each size, so maximum 2 pairs if socks at a time. I have heard it is good to rotate through needle and hook sizes to keep injuries to a minimum. Thanks for keeping me company as I knit up a pair of fingerless mitts.
I knit continentally and my gauge is not very loose. My purl-stitches are a bit looser and then I tension the yarn by weaving it between my fingers. We tension the yarn in our left hand by holding on to it. I have always used a 2mm circular-needle for socks for a nice tight gauge.. To me ”English” knitting looks very complicated 😉.
I learned to crochet first, so Continental just made much more sense to my brain. I prefer a looser gauge generally since it's easier on my hands. I generally still get an 8-9 sts per inch on 2.25 mm gauge for socks.
Hello lovelies! Just found your channel and am so absolutely into it, even I never have knitted until now. .////. Do you think I could knit a pair of socks with your tutorial, too, even I don't have any experience with knitting at all? Just so blown away by all the beautiful socks you do and the hat and all the other things you showed. Would love to try. :) And... the little documentary inbetween was.... just stunning. Never would have thought about such a segment in a knitting show, but.... I love it! I really do and I also really understand why those viewers visited the monastery by themselves after seeing the episodes you've published until now. Showing how the Fountains would have had looked in their best days was just amazing to see.... really pumped up the imagination. :) Thank you for that wonderful video and all the things... you really enabled me to more than 'just' knitting. Lots of love from Germany, Leezet
I knit both English (flicking+throwing) and Continental style, and have the same gauge with each. I'll swap around whilst I'm working on a project depending on my mood or just which side my yarn ball is 😅
The yarn in the Endy Bits looks like assigned pooling yarn. I’m not sure about in your area but it has become very popular here in the Eastern US. I don’t care for it in socks but in patterns specifically for assigned pooling it looked really pretty.
Love this podcast. I am continental knitter, and I control my tension by the way I weave the yarn thru my fingers. Not loose at all. But I do get a different row gauge when I knit English, because of the difference in angle the yarn is to my project. Not a bad thing, just different.
I’m a continental knitter as most knitters here in Scandinavia- I live in Denmark 🇩🇰. My tension is a little to the tight side.. I think nearly all here is having the yarn in their left hand and have no issue keeping it tight so the knitted fabric is even ..my pointer is not pointing up like mr westknit but I was taught to knit by my mum- and she said I would have hand pain so therefore my pointer is laying down like my other fingers.. difficult to explain 😂
i just want to say thank you so much for this videos that you have been showing i have learned so much and enjoyed it so very much. i just love history so it is very special to me and to see England i hate to see it end but i am looking forward to the new story that you will be telling next year now i am going back and watching some of the first things that you have done because i started watching in your 200 episodes you do a great job it's just like being there once again thank you so much for taking the time to film these
I learned the English style and stick with that. With colorwork I use both! Looking forward to Sockaween! I have always loved the music with the Monasteries, fits it so well. I think its your brother, that composed the pieces.
I’m a continental knitter who learned crochet first so I couldn’t wrap my head around how to tension my yarn the other way but since I was used to how to hold my yarn for crochet and how to have it tensioned, I find that I make gauge and have no problem at all with things being too loose. Stephen West has said on his videos that he has looser tension
We've been getting very similar weather to you, here miles away, in South West England! We had such a heavy shower this morning, just after i had put washing out(grrr!). We are both retired, so the husband was home and helped get everything back on, but we were soaked in just a couple of mins! Then if course, back came the sun! Typical! X
I always check in Ravelry yarns to see how colours and variegated yarns knit up. The Symfonie looks good in some projects but not others. Good luck with yours ❤
I am a Continental knitter and my gauge is fairly tight. In the past year I have realized that a 2.5 mm circular works better for my socks. Dan, the reconstruction portion of the video may have caused my eyes to be a bit watery. That was amazing and so effective!
I love your Pooh bear. I wish I could knit a stuffed animal. I've tried several times, many patterns. I really enjoy your videos. Love the music, the scenery, and the both of you. :)
I am a continental knitter and knit socks of 2.0 or size 0 needles. So yes I'm loose. But my friend in my knitting group, also a continental knitter is so tight she breaks wooden don's often. So it all depends on the knitter I guess. Dan your tank top is so so so so so beautiful!!! You are such a great colorwork knitter. Whenever I put down a project for a while I write myself a detailed note so I can read it and remember exactly what is going on when I stopped. Kaye, will be knitting the fairground socks next!
I love your content. Thank you so much for it. I learned to knit throwing, and knit that way for 30 years. I wanted to learn continental style in order to see whether or not it is faster for me, or less strain for me. I a, now a continental knitter and it is less strain for my hands. I believe that beautiful tension is a matter of hard work and serious intentional approach. It isn't easy to have beautiful tension in any knitting style. One has to keep on it, and notice your own work. What do you think?
I guess I don’t feel so bad having 3 (maybe 4) pairs of socks on the go. Almost finished 1 Fairground sock, have 1 Rumple Sock finished and have just started the second, and I have the leg of the Beachcomber done but I don’t like the design choices I made so will probably rip back at the foot, possibly back to before the heel flap and redo it. And then you have to intrigue me with Hobbity socks because I do love self-striping yarn!
I'm a continental knitter (I taught myself about 6 years ago because I was having such a hard time with my yarn twisting like crazy and I'd heard that throwers can have a problem with that - switching my style completely solved that problem!)), and I definitely knit tighter now, much more so then when I was a thrower. If I'm on a circular needle, I knit much looser than on dpn's. It's so interesting, isn't it??
I knit continental and tension pretty much the same way as when I crochet. W hen I try two handed colorwork, I have never figured out a good way to tension for the thrown color.
Loved the Bakery Bear review. I am left handed. I am equally comfortable knitting English or Continental. I mostly knit Continental. My gauge seem to be equal either way. I knit a bit loosely, but my socks are knit on 2.25mm's, and the gauge is fine. So, I think if you run your 100 knitter challenge, I will have to bow out. I honestly wonder, but don't know if being left handed affects all of this.
My Swedish Grandmother taught me to knit "closed combination continental", my gauge is tight and rather even. On a good hand day, I purl faster than I knit. My purl rows are the same gauge as my knit stitches. Stephen West knits "open continental"- meaning his left index finger is up in the air, stressing itself. When I see him do that, I can feel my Grandmother rolling in her grave,wanting to smack his finger 😂 I love my Clover bamboo dpn's.
I knit English/throwing most of the time and when fair isle I continental/Pick 1 colour and English /throw the second colour,and the continental/Picking for me is naturally looser and I have to be conscious to get them even. But across the board I find that if I am following a American pattern ( which I believe are a lot more likely to be pickers) I always have to go up needle sizes to get guage cause mines to tight but if I use vintage and modern English /Australian I usually hit guage pretty close
Hi Kay and Dan, just some help with pronounciation of Lykke ... Luke (like the man's name) eh... so luke-eh. Similar for the word Hygge... hoo-geh. Hope that helps xx p.s. I'm a continental knitter and have normal middle of the road tension, in socks I get 8.5 sts to the inch and I also knit english style with the same gauge (2.5mm needles for both)
Soo cute soft toys . I wish i could make one for my g 1 1/2 yr old granddaughter but I dont have a printer and i cant look at screen to knit all that .
Great show❣️ please consider doing Knitting university for a Stuff toy 🧸 I really appreciate you considering it. Or perhaps a pattern with video tutorials I’d be happy to pay 30 or 40 pounds for such a pattern.❤️
I like to visit Fountain's Abbey or Bolton Abbey whenever I'm back in England and this series has really made me appreciate the structure of these abbeys even more. Great job. And just beautiful way to show what it would have looked like.
Thank you so much for all the amazing content Dan and Kay! I've learned so much from the monastery series.🌟🌟🌟
Brilliant video as ever especially the history part about the monasteries etc
That’s hilarious! I’m from Maryland, too.
I'd call myself a "continental flicker". I use the first finger on my left hand to wrap the yarn around the needles similar to english flickers. My gague is on the tighter side, typically 9-10 sitiches/1" on socks depending on the plumpness of the fingering weight. I tend to work closer to the tips of the needles with about 1/2" of yarn from finger to needle tip.
I'm a continental knitter and I knit pretty tightly! I'm also a mirror knitter and I learned to tension with crochet first (as a child). I do appreciate my English knitting when I knit in colorwork.
I’m a continental knitter and knit tight. I came to knitting from crochet so I was use to holding the yarn in my left hand.
Hello Dan and Kay!!!
I knit continental and how I weave the yarn through my fingers I have a good tight tension… but I do tend to need to go down a needle size for socks because I don’t like the feeling of air on my fleeting seeing through the stitches… however on sweaters I consistently get gauge of the throwers:)
Great to see you again, I haven’t watch podcasts in a couple years but I am happy to say yours is still one of my favourites❤❤❤❤
I just love the monastery series that you’ve filmed for us. It is just so well done, I think. I enjoy learning about the history and I enjoy seeing all the scenery, too. Thank you so much for the wonderful videos.
Always a pleasure when I see a new video from you. Life definitely gets busy, don’t stress, do what you can. Knitting should be our happy place, not another source of stress.
Really loved the reconstruction in part 2 excellent. I can’t imagine how they built such a grand place just awesome!!
Actor Andrew Walker is my favorite Hallmark actor! ❤️❤️
I'm a continental knitter. I only drape the yarn over my index finger, but I am still a tight knitter. I usually need to go up a full needle size.
Love your Pooh socks! Would consider the heels "poohling" 😅 Your podcast is always a favorite, thank you ❤
I taught myself to knit 20+ years ago & for years I knit continental with my own twist (can't describe it but people would comment on how I would hold my needles "funny") and my tension would waver between tight & loose...but for the last year or so I've been knitting Norwegian and my tension is right in the middle. 🙂
Good morning from Newfoundland Canada Pooh got socks that is so cute love both of your work just sitting and crocheting and i got to finish my socks today cold out here rain and bit wind home i stay
As someone who used to live and is from North Yorkshire ( live in Cumbria now)and visited Fountains Abby more times than I can remember, this has been fascinating. I have learnt so much more than all my many, many previous visits. Thank you for taking us all along with you Dan. I am new to your channel ( where have I been !!!🙈) and now have the joy of going through all your previous vlogs………lucky me 😁
I knit Continental - my gauge is the same on my knits and my purls. I used to have too tight purls and had to concentrate on loosening them up a bit to match my knits. I don’t actually pick - I use my left index finger to flick the yarn for both knits and purls - down farther for the purls. The flicking is much easier on my right wrist than picking. I’ve had issues with my wrists for decades, so have had to learn to loosen up, and minimize twisting them whenever possible. When doing colorwork, I knit one color English, and one or two colors Continental. :)
I am a continental knitter and I don't tension my yarn (I don't pick yarn). So, my technique has me wrapping my yarn around my needle, but using my left hand. I have a very even tension, on both knit and purl side. I am also a looser knitter, when I tension my yarn, it is quite tight and my hands get fatigued.
Sweet Autumn is on the Hall,ark Channel here in the US on Wednesday this week at 8 pm.
I learned continental knitting when I was young. I currently am a tight knitter.
Can't believe there is only 1 more episode left of the Rise + Fall of the monasteries. I know of a few Misericordia hospitals here in Canada but it pronounced differently on the third syllable. I would definitely watch your videos while touring sites in England and gasp if I saw Dan recording an episode!
I have crocheted for decades and have knit English style since 2020. Have tried continental and Norwegian but cannot get it - poor left hand coordination. I crochet and knit very loosely and perhaps have made gauge once in my life. I use 2.25mm needles for socks and occasionally use 2.75mm. Only 1 pair of circulars for each size, so maximum 2 pairs if socks at a time. I have heard it is good to rotate through needle and hook sizes to keep injuries to a minimum.
Thanks for keeping me company as I knit up a pair of fingerless mitts.
I knit continentally and my gauge is not very loose. My purl-stitches are a bit looser and then I tension the yarn by weaving it between my fingers. We tension the yarn in our left hand by holding on to it.
I have always used a 2mm circular-needle for socks for a nice tight gauge..
To me ”English” knitting looks very complicated 😉.
I learned to crochet first, so Continental just made much more sense to my brain. I prefer a looser gauge generally since it's easier on my hands. I generally still get an 8-9 sts per inch on 2.25 mm gauge for socks.
Hello lovelies!
Just found your channel and am so absolutely into it, even I never have knitted until now. .////. Do you think I could knit a pair of socks with your tutorial, too, even I don't have any experience with knitting at all? Just so blown away by all the beautiful socks you do and the hat and all the other things you showed. Would love to try. :)
And... the little documentary inbetween was.... just stunning. Never would have thought about such a segment in a knitting show, but.... I love it! I really do and I also really understand why those viewers visited the monastery by themselves after seeing the episodes you've published until now. Showing how the Fountains would have had looked in their best days was just amazing to see.... really pumped up the imagination. :)
Thank you for that wonderful video and all the things... you really enabled me to more than 'just' knitting.
Lots of love from Germany,
Leezet
Keep up the great work. Yours was the first knitting podcast I watched about 8 years ago, I've watched every episode since!!
I knit both English (flicking+throwing) and Continental style, and have the same gauge with each. I'll swap around whilst I'm working on a project depending on my mood or just which side my yarn ball is 😅
The yarn in the Endy Bits looks like assigned pooling yarn. I’m not sure about in your area but it has become very popular here in the Eastern US. I don’t care for it in socks but in patterns specifically for assigned pooling it looked really pretty.
Love this podcast. I am continental knitter, and I control my tension by the way I weave the yarn thru my fingers. Not loose at all. But I do get a different row gauge when I knit English, because of the difference in angle the yarn is to my project. Not a bad thing, just different.
I’m a continental knitter as most knitters here in Scandinavia- I live in Denmark 🇩🇰. My tension is a little to the tight side.. I think nearly all here is having the yarn in their left hand and have no issue keeping it tight so the knitted fabric is even ..my pointer is not pointing up like mr westknit but I was taught to knit by my mum- and she said I would have hand pain so therefore my pointer is laying down like my other fingers.. difficult to explain 😂
Ansolutely thoroughly enjoyed the monestry story youve really brought History alive thank you Dan.
Think Pooh needs some matching mitts!
i just want to say thank you so much for this videos that you have been showing i have learned so much and enjoyed it so very much. i just love history so it is very special to me and to see England i hate to see it end but i am looking forward to the new story that you will be telling next year now i am going back and watching some of the first things that you have done because i started watching in your 200 episodes you do a great job it's just like being there once again thank you so much for taking the time to film these
I learned the English style and stick with that. With colorwork I use both! Looking forward to Sockaween! I have always loved the music with the Monasteries, fits it so well. I think its your brother, that composed the pieces.
I’m a continental knitter who learned crochet first so I couldn’t wrap my head around how to tension my yarn the other way but since I was used to how to hold my yarn for crochet and how to have it tensioned, I find that I make gauge and have no problem at all with things being too loose. Stephen West has said on his videos that he has looser tension
We've been getting very similar weather to you, here miles away, in South West England! We had such a heavy shower this morning, just after i had put washing out(grrr!). We are both retired, so the husband was home and helped get everything back on, but we were soaked in just a couple of mins! Then if course, back came the sun! Typical! X
Dan, your production skills compares to a documentary done for general viewing. As always, this episode is full of eye candy and good conversation.
I always check in Ravelry yarns to see how colours and variegated yarns knit up. The Symfonie looks good in some projects but not others. Good luck with yours ❤
I am a Continental knitter and my gauge is fairly tight. In the past year I have realized that a 2.5 mm circular works better for my socks. Dan, the reconstruction portion of the video may have caused my eyes to be a bit watery. That was amazing and so effective!
I’m a continental knitter from Sweden and yes, I’m a loose knitter.
I love your Pooh bear. I wish I could knit a stuffed animal. I've tried several times, many patterns. I really enjoy your videos. Love the music, the scenery, and the both of you. :)
I am a continental knitter and knit socks of 2.0 or size 0 needles. So yes I'm loose. But my friend in my knitting group, also a continental knitter is so tight she breaks wooden don's often. So it all depends on the knitter I guess. Dan your tank top is so so so so so beautiful!!! You are such a great colorwork knitter. Whenever I put down a project for a while I write myself a detailed note so I can read it and remember exactly what is going on when I stopped.
Kaye, will be knitting the fairground socks next!
I love your content. Thank you so much for it. I learned to knit throwing, and knit that way for 30 years. I wanted to learn continental style in order to see whether or not it is faster for me, or less strain for me. I a, now a continental knitter and it is less strain for my hands. I believe that beautiful tension is a matter of hard work and serious intentional approach. It isn't easy to have beautiful tension in any knitting style. One has to keep on it, and notice your own work. What do you think?
I guess I don’t feel so bad having 3 (maybe 4) pairs of socks on the go. Almost finished 1 Fairground sock, have 1 Rumple Sock finished and have just started the second, and I have the leg of the Beachcomber done but I don’t like the design choices I made so will probably rip back at the foot, possibly back to before the heel flap and redo it. And then you have to intrigue me with Hobbity socks because I do love self-striping yarn!
I'm a continental knitter (I taught myself about 6 years ago because I was having such a hard time with my yarn twisting like crazy and I'd heard that throwers can have a problem with that - switching my style completely solved that problem!)), and I definitely knit tighter now, much more so then when I was a thrower. If I'm on a circular needle, I knit much looser than on dpn's. It's so interesting, isn't it??
I knit continental and tension pretty much the same way as when I crochet. W hen I try two handed colorwork, I have never figured out a good way to tension for the thrown color.
Same here
Hello from Mounds, Illinois. Don’t feel bad Hallmark here in America has not started showing any good movies yet, maybe they will next month.
Loved the Bakery Bear review. I am left handed. I am equally comfortable knitting English or Continental. I mostly knit Continental. My gauge seem to be equal either way. I knit a bit loosely, but my socks are knit on 2.25mm's, and the gauge is fine. So, I think if you run your 100 knitter challenge, I will have to bow out. I honestly wonder, but don't know if being left handed affects all of this.
My Swedish Grandmother taught me to knit "closed combination continental", my gauge is tight and rather even. On a good hand day, I purl faster than I knit. My purl rows are the same gauge as my knit stitches. Stephen West knits "open continental"- meaning his left index finger is up in the air, stressing itself. When I see him do that, I can feel my Grandmother rolling in her grave,wanting to smack his finger 😂 I love my Clover bamboo dpn's.
Sorry Dan,I had to put you on hold to watch Sweet Autumn.Must say I prefer The Rise and Fall of the Monasteries!😘
I knit English/throwing most of the time and when fair isle I continental/Pick 1 colour and English /throw the second colour,and the continental/Picking for me is naturally looser and I have to be conscious to get them even. But across the board I find that if I am following a American pattern
( which I believe are a lot more likely to be pickers) I always have to go up needle sizes to get guage cause mines to tight but if I use vintage and modern English /Australian I usually hit guage pretty close
I’m a Continental knitter and use a smaller needle for socks. As an aside I’m a Norwegian purler.
Hi Kay and Dan, just some help with pronounciation of Lykke ... Luke (like the man's name) eh... so luke-eh. Similar for the word Hygge... hoo-geh. Hope that helps xx p.s. I'm a continental knitter and have normal middle of the road tension, in socks I get 8.5 sts to the inch and I also knit english style with the same gauge (2.5mm needles for both)
Soo cute soft toys . I wish i could make one for my g 1 1/2 yr old granddaughter but I dont have a printer and i cant look at screen to knit all that .
That music on the monastary is so perfect . What a talent and dan producing . Enjoyed thoroughly TYTy
Great show❣️ please consider doing Knitting university for a Stuff toy 🧸 I really appreciate you considering it. Or perhaps a pattern with video tutorials I’d be happy to pay 30 or 40 pounds for such a pattern.❤️
I believe astrological (equinox, light) and meteorological (weather) autumn are different!
My continental gives me gauge, my English style is looser and I typically have to go down a needle size to get gauge.
I can knit both English and Continental. My Continental gauge is much looser than my English.
Hallmark is rubbish. They have changed