American/English knitting and Continental knitting
Bobbles
Buttonholes
Cable stitch patterns
Combination knitting
Darning
Designing knitted garments
Domino knitting
Drop stitch patterns
Entrelac
Fair Isle knitting
Free-form knitting
Fulling/felting
Garter stitch
Graffiti knitting
I-cord
Intarsia
Kitchener stitch
Knitting and purling backwardsLace patterns
Long Tail CO
Machine knitting
Moebius band knitting
Norwegian knitting
Short rows
Slip stitch patterns
Steeks
Stockinette stitch
Swatching
Tassels
Textured knitting
Thrummed knitting
Tubular CO
Twisted stitch patterns
Two end knitting
So I'll start with American/English knitting. Have I ever told you how I learned to knit? With a Lion Brand boucle scarf kit? Yeah, the instructions would've been better if they were written by Ikea. Luckily, I was able to find the excellent resource that is Knittinghelp.com, and things became much clearer.
Now, I'm not sure why I chose English over continental. I think, most likely, it was because I'm so utterly right handed that trying to control the yarn in my left hand was doomed from the start. Now, I knit English with a few weird nuances, like keeping my right thumb against the needle when I "throw"... Would you like to see me knitting something? You would?! How about this:
I'd love to learn to knit continental. The fact is, I do know how to knit like that, but my left hand is so bad at keeping tension that it just seems useless to keep going at it. I get my projects done quickly enough without the extra efficiency of continental, so I think I'll just stay happy with this way, until I come up with something better.
How do you knit?
- YX
I knit continental unless I'm knitting color work. I throw with the MC which I think is backwards from most people. Maybe throwing would take care of my tension issues? My tension is really loose knitting continental.
ReplyDeleteI've never had issues with my tension, ever with English knitting. I'm extremely right handed and have such a hard time controlling the yarn with the left!
DeleteI'd love to learn continental... really get into a rhythm with it, but that would take so much practice (and I knit for relaxation) so it's unlikely to ever happen.
ReplyDeleteNext up on my "To Learn" list is color work. I'm going to make this:
http://www.hollaknits.com/blog/store/products/wallpaper-cowl-knitting-pattern-by-emma-welford/
I don't think it'll be hard, but I'll have to put some energy into not losing my place with the pattern.