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Posted by on December 17, 2006, 4:14 pm
I relearning how to knit again. When I learned to do it as a child I
wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't
"swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my
style called?
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Posted by Katherine on December 17, 2006, 4:35 pm
sanders6263@wi.rr.com wrote:
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> I relearning how to knit again. When I learned to do it as a child I
> wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't
> "swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my
> style called?
COntinental. It is supposed to be quicker than English, which is what I
do.
Congratulations on picking up knitting again!
Higs,
Katherine
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Posted by Richard Eney on December 17, 2006, 8:33 pm
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>sanders6263@wi.rr.com wrote:
>> I relearning how to knit again. When I learned to do it as a child I
>> wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't
>> "swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my
>> style called?
>Continental. It is supposed to be quicker than English, which is what
>I do.
>Congratulations on picking up knitting again!
Some people call the motion you use (Continental) "picking" and the
motion used in "English" style knitting is called "throwing".
=Tamar
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Posted by Spike Driver on December 17, 2006, 6:17 pm
sanders6263@wi.rr.com wrote:
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> I relearning how to knit again. When I learned to do it as a child I
> wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't
> "swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my
> style called?
>
Thanks for checking in.
Please let us know how you do and ask many questions.
Hugs & God bless,
Dennis & Gail
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Posted by spinninglilac on December 18, 2006, 2:02 pm
I knit like that always have, but I also hook it up around my little
''pinky-baby''' finger then around the index finger, I guess it is the same,
but I think the extra hooking gives a better or higher tension, at the end
of the day, neither method is better than the other, it is all a case of
what you get used to I think and both methods result in a knitted material.
Shepherds used to knit with just one needle so I'm told, goodness knows how,
I'd drop all the stitches, must have been a right and wrong way for this
one...lol
higz Cher
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>I relearning how to knit again. When I learned to do it as a child I
> wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't
> "swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my
> style called?
>
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> wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't
> "swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my
> style called?