Knitting Hack Slip with Yarn in Front in Continental Style
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Knitting patterns that use slip with yarn in front can be super fast if you use this trick when knitting in the Continental style (with the yarn tensioned in your left hand).
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This is how I do it too, especially when knitting the linen stitch. This is why I love continental knitting.
It does make some things easier.
Nice trick!
Thanks!
Great tip. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Genius!!!
I knit in continental style so this was a great tip! Thanks! xx
You're so welcome!
This has literally just made my life so much easier. I'm in the middle of making a double stockinette blanket, and the amount of s1wyif has been killing me. This is so much easier on my hands.
How is 'double stockinette' ?
@@Shaki611 it's k1, s1wyif. So it creates a fabric where both sides look like stockinette stitch.
Woo Hoo! Glad to have helped!
I totally use this method. I’ve only knit Continental. I could never learn to knit as a child despite my mom and a great-aunt trying to teach me, so I only crocheted. I finally learned to knit as an adult, and it only made sense to hold the yarn the same way as I did for crochet.
I do have a question for you, Barbara. What is the yarn you are using in this video? I am in love with it and must get it for myself!! Thanks.
Thank you. I will have to switch to continental knitting.
As a former crocheter, Continental knitting should be easy but sadly I am a thrower. I learned to knit as a thrower at 15 and it is a really hard habit to break.
I'm in same place😅
It is so easy to fall back on comfort knitting.
This is how i do it too. But i also only Norwegian purl so it comes natural.
We're knitting twins LOL!
Barbara, I have been trying to switch to continental knitting for years but have been a thrower since I was 12. I feel like I need a crochet hook sometimes to grab the stitch, is there any chance you can do a video for someone like me who is so conditioned in the other way? I have tried several times, but I always wind up going back to throwing because for me it is so much faster. Clearly, the slight difference in the stitch appearance doesn’t matter to me depending on the project, because I probably used textured yarn as I favor it anyway. I get too impatient and frustrated. I taught my daughter when she was an adolescent and she didn’t really go for it until she was in college, at which time she had to sit there and try to remember, and self taught herself continental.
I'm afraid that I am super clumsy with tensioning my yarn in my right hand so I totally understand. But I don't have any good advice for you other than practice and remember how slow you were when you first were learning how to knit. Because that is what you are doing, relearning how to knit.