Hi Ann, I am returning to knitting after a 4-year break. I love your refresher. I am a continental knitter. Throwing just was not normal for me. I learned to crochet years ago, so continental is natural for me. Thank you for sharing your technique.
I struggle with tension when I try continental, it’s the same result every time I try it. It gets loose after a few stitches. English is more consistent for me but I know I’m probably using more time and hand movements.
@@Knitdesigns You fetch the yarn from below, I fetch it from above. Haha that sounds crazy, but that is how I can explain it in English that is not my native language☺ You go under. That is unusual to me. I go over and fetch the yarn.
Notice that the stitch mount changes between the knit and purl rows. There is nothing wrong with that but it can be confusing to newer knitters and lead to twisted stitches every other row.
This is how I was taught over 60 years ago. It's Eastern European style knitting. I hold my yarn in the regular fashion for Continental and find that the purl stitch is faster than the knit stitch. The only issue I always have is with patterns that require K2 tog or similar combination stitches, where I have to reorient my stitches to knit them properly. The SSKs need no reorientation, so there's that consulation.
Yes, this technique is best suited for stocking stitch knitting whereas for more complex knitting or knitting in the round the classical continental knitting is better so all knit stitches face the right way 🙂
I think it depends how you’ve started your knitting as if you’ve used a different technique then your knit stitches maybe positioned differently which could cause a confusion to begin with. I suggest you try differing ways to see what works for you 😊
When you finished demonstrating to us the purl stitch, you then went on to demonstrate the knit stitch. I am wondering whether you entered the knit stitch through the back of the stitch or the front. It looks as though you entered through the back of the stitch, but it could be the angle of the camera 😊🤔.
@kerryroberts2191 for the knit stitch the right needle is inserted from the front, yarn behind the left needle . I inserted the needle from the back for the purl stitches, yarn in front of the left needle
I am a continental knitter and all your knitting looks completely backwards to me!
Hi Ann, I am returning to knitting after a 4-year break. I love your refresher. I am a continental knitter. Throwing just was not normal for me. I learned to crochet years ago, so continental is natural for me. Thank you for sharing your technique.
Hi, thanks for sharing. I have tried the throwing technique too but just couldn’t get up to speed with it. Thank you for your lovely comment 😊
I struggle with tension when I try continental, it’s the same result every time I try it. It gets loose after a few stitches. English is more consistent for me but I know I’m probably using more time and hand movements.
Same here
Brilliant method. Thank you for sharing. ❤
Any method of knitting is fast once you are proficient.
Yes. The idea that one method is inherently better, faster, etc. does not hold up to scrutiny.
If you pull the working yarn from the other side it goes even faster😊 To me, you are doing it backwards☺ Greetings from Sweden🇸🇪
Thank you for your comment. Which side do you mean? 😊
@@Knitdesigns You fetch the yarn from below, I fetch it from above. Haha that sounds crazy, but that is how I can explain it in English that is not my native language☺ You go under. That is unusual to me. I go over and fetch the yarn.
Oh, I think I now know what you mean. Thanks for sharing, I’m going to try it 😊
😊But of course we all do things we are used to and think that is the best. Everyone to their own, or how you put it😊
Each to their own, I think is how you say it😄
Notice that the stitch mount changes between the knit and purl rows. There is nothing wrong with that but it can be confusing to newer knitters and lead to twisted stitches every other row.
Thanks for your feedback
This is how I was taught over 60 years ago. It's Eastern European style knitting. I hold my yarn in the regular fashion for Continental and find that the purl stitch is faster than the knit stitch. The only issue I always have is with patterns that require K2 tog or similar combination stitches, where I have to reorient my stitches to knit them properly. The SSKs need no reorientation, so there's that consulation.
Yes, this technique is best suited for stocking stitch knitting whereas for more complex knitting or knitting in the round the classical continental knitting is better so all knit stitches face the right way 🙂
Does this mean that on the knit side of the work, we have to go in through the back of the stitch?
When you knit this way, the knit stitches are kind of opened up, the right needle is inserted into the stitch. Hope I make sense 😊
@@Knitdesigns so does that mean I go through the back of the stitch on the knit side, or the front? 🤔
I think it depends how you’ve started your knitting as if you’ve used a different technique then your knit stitches maybe positioned differently which could cause a confusion to begin with. I suggest you try differing ways to see what works for you 😊
When you finished demonstrating to us the purl stitch, you then went on to demonstrate the knit stitch. I am wondering whether you entered the knit stitch through the back of the stitch or the front. It looks as though you entered through the back of the stitch, but it could be the angle of the camera 😊🤔.
@kerryroberts2191 for the knit stitch the right needle is inserted from the front, yarn behind the left needle . I inserted the needle from the back for the purl stitches, yarn in front of the left needle