Hi, my name is Norman and I want to help you to become a better knitter. I started knitting at age 6 and haven't stopped in the past 30+ years. I run a knitting blog called Nimble-Needles.com with well over 450.000 readers per month. These days, I live in beautiful Vienna, Austria.
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I’ve been looking for a small easier bobble to replace a much larger and more complicated bobble in a pattern that I didn’t like at all, this is perfect! Thank you 🙏
I've been knitting forever with the English style "throwing" the wool with my right hand as that is the way my grandmother taught me. So far it's been successful enough to create some fine Aran knit sweater designs. I am determined to knit a fair isle sweater. I have a pattern and wool is ordered. I know i have to learn continental style for this sweater pattern and lo and behold your video popped up! Fantastic instructions! Yes I can! Thanks for your inspiration! Edit: some instructors use a "Norwegian ring" with two loops on the left index finger to wrangle 2 colors while fair isle knitting. Have you ever used one, and if so what's your opinion on using one?
I also carry an emery 😂 I use metalic Knit Pick all sizes and a pair of us 5 and us 5.5 wooden from the same brand when I need sharper tips and mini wooden knit pick kit. I do agree on your point of view on Chiaogoo kits. Finally I really admired your scissors collection. Thanks for your videos 👍
I hope I didn't overlook this in the comments, but could you explain which of these bindoffs return to their original shape after being stretched out, so if used as on a rib hem for bottom of sweater or cuff, that the garment will return to it's natural shape, and not stay stretched ouit?
none of them really does. That's not how knitted fabric works - except you pick a fiber that is very springy. If you overstretch knitting, it's always going to stay put. Sheep wool has a natural springyness..but that's almost neglectable when we talk about a hem. I typically cast on my sweaters with an alternating longtail cast-on
@@NimbleNeedles thank you. still a 'beginner' with a year + of enjoying it. If you do something top down, what would be your recommended? Several designs I've considered use one or other of the sewn methods? And thank you for replying, Norman, it really helps!
Thank you, Norman. I wish I had watched your video sooner; I recently had to cast on extra stitches to make a doll's jumper, but I used the looping method (looping the wool over the needle to make the stitch - I can't remember the name of that particular cast on) but your method is neater. Just out of curiosity, I notice that you do the slip knot differently to other knitters. I wondered if there was a reason for that 🤔. Also, do you have a video showing us how to do it? Many thanks 😊
well, the reason why i do it like this is because it may seem a bit more complicated at first BUT your fingers/yarn are in the exact position you need to be to continue cast-ing on. So I actually believe the "easier ways" are more complicated because you need to learn two things instead of just one. nimble-needles.com/tutorials/how-to-tie-a-slip-knot/
well, then that's your opportunity to comment what you are still lacking. However, please be aware that, while this IS the possibly easiest well-fitting sweater pattern I could think off, it doesn't mean it's a suitable first ever knitting project.
Possum yarn (blend to be precise) is beautiful and certainly does perform so much better then cashmere. It is very, very soft and not itchy at all. I've got several jumpers including 15 years old cardigan that is still in excellent condition. I knitted neck warmer that I am using while skiing and it is superior to any other neck warmer that one can buy in ski shops. Most importantly, I've never experienced anything warmer than possum blend yarn/garments except for the fur of course. But as knitwear goes it is the best. @NimbleNeedles no need to be concerned about possum population. They are absolute pest and ruin everything in nature and gardens, they breed like crazy and no chance they will ever get extinct. I am in Australia, they are protected here and I can tell you they are doing really well. Even if NZ manage to eradicate them they are still in millions all over Australia.
I learnt the English style of knitting in primary school in South Africa in the 1970’s! I’m now living in Australia and I’ve just started up again and I’m finding that it’s quite a slow and inefficient way, so I’d like to change to the Continental style. Wish me luck!😅
Question, it might sound a little stupid 😅 but I'm curious.. Can you double knit two different patterns? Or is the pattern the same on the front as in the back? For example, can I knit a heart on the front part but a star on the back part or will it be a heart on both sides with the colour inverted? I'd appreciate it if someone could reply
yes, you can definitely do this however it may A) require aditional colors B) slightly different techniques (and I don't have a video to show you how to do that yet)
My mother taught me crochet this year, but she hadn’t knitted in decades and didn’t feel she could teach me how to knit. She suggested I find an in person class, but they were rare in my area and expensive for very limited education. Then I found you. ❤️ I taught myself with a few books, but mostly your videos. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’m now finishing my second pair of socks and making a lacy shawl after knitting for about 2-3 months. It is the first skill I have learned from the ground up without in-person instruction. Your comment at 27:43 cracked me up. I totally feel that (side eye to husband) 😂. But you are right, mastery takes much mindful and focused practice. Some (in the music world) say it takes 10,000 hrs worth of such practice to gain mastery but not perfection. I’m an amateur violist studying music for several decades and can attest to this.
thank you for another great video!! I have a question about negative ease. I would just use your directions, but 10% shorter for the length of the foot?
I've been English knitting for more than 40 years but never got the hang of Continental methods. I really want to do a double knitting intarsia pattern and see how much easier it would be if I could manage the yarns Continental style. Your tutorial is excellent and I have hope that I'm going to be able to make the switch to Continental style. Super exciting! Thank you.
Thank you for this. I started knitting lace socks recently and I was struggling with my hardwood DPNs. Ordered a set of Hiya Hiya. I’ll wait for them to arrive before starting the 2nd of the pair I’m knitting now.
Hi i have a complicated stitch. I don't think you did a tutorial on that. In one row i have: k1, p2tog, y2rn, (p2tog) twice Then in the next row i have k1, yrn, p2tog, k1, p1, k3 The k1,p1 comes right kn the spot where y2rn is which makes the stitch sort of disappear so instead of increasing the number of stitches i end up loosing one. I didn't give the whole pattern of the row because i didn't want to complicate it but i could of need be... most greatful for any help offered
not sure what kind of help I have for you. In row 1: you dec 1 stitch (-3;+2) In row 2: you stay even (+1, -1) So yes, if that is the repeat, you are decreasing by 1 stitch there. YOu'd have to contact the respective designer to make sense of that.
@NimbleNeedles the few tutorials where they show how to purl into it don't seem to work correctly. The stitch sort of dissapears and the holes are uneven...
Thank you for this video! I finished knitting my first sweater but have been putting off weaving in the ends. Now I’m more confident that they won’t come loose after wear and tear!
This is so helpful. Between this and Laura Nelkin's how-to, I think I can manage to make my own. I'm in Germany. Could you give me a link to the latch hooks you used over here? I'm finding all kinds on German Amazon, but I'm not sure which ones I should use.
I am new to knitting so my stash is currently in bags all over my house. I also love felting, so I have plastic bins of wool roving in stacks. My plan is to reorganize my “studio” (the spare bedroom) by moving my IKEA bookcases to use for all my wool/yarn. This video has really helped me plan that reorganizing. Thank you from Calgary Canada 🇨🇦
I am a lapsed Advanced Beginner/Intermediate! I have skills and missing skills from both. 😂 I am picking knitting back up after 30 years. And what a difference the Internet with RU-vid, Ravelry, etc. make! It’s a whole new world that was back then reserved to print only knitting magazines and patterns.
Actually, if you have a student with a physical science background, saying that knit and purl are mirrors is a good way to make them mess up. In a technical sense, the mirrored imagine of your left hand is your right hand. A purl stitch is doing a knit stitch on the other side of the work from you, like having your left hand's palm facing away from you, while a knit stitch is doing a knit stitch on the side of the work facing you, like having your left palm facing you. I do not think there is a mirror image of a knit stitch, unless there was some way to make the V's the opposite direction, since the resultant stitches are otherwise symmetric on each side (to my knowlege). Since I was told knit and purl were mirrors in my intro class, and I knew they weren't mirrors in the sense of the resultant fabric, I figured that must mean that each of the other steps must be mirrored - knit must be "bottom up, right behind left needle, around clockwise" if purl was "top down, right in front of left needle, around counterclockwise". That's mirrored, right? You can't be mirrored and do counterclockwise for both knit and purl, because that means it isn't mirrored. 😅😂 Eventually, I found out about front and back leg and twisted stitches and started knitting and purling correctly. Thank goodness I let go of the mirroring idea!
Thank you for this review they all look pretty similar tbh I feel going for the knitters pride here theyre called knitpro I think. Cause from experience Ive bought pretty cheap crochet hooks £6.35 for a whole set with a pouch and they work brilliantly
Das tut mir leid. Teil der Anleitung ist ein digitales Excel file was für dich alles ausrechnet. Maße musst du aber trotzdem nehmen und richtig eintragen. Trotzdem musst du Abstand nehmen vom Gedanken "nur einen pulli stricken". Es ist so ziemlich das komplexeste und zeitintensivste strickstück. Einfach drauf los und pi mal Daumen drauf loslegen und nach 50h merken, dass es nicht passt, ist glaub auch nicht fein.
@@NimbleNeedles ich habe schon ein raglan gestrickt und nur der Hals war wabbelig aber das hier ist wirklich sehr sehr viel zu rechnen. Dann kann ich nie passgenauen Pullover Stricken 😢😢😢😢
@@Gwenny89 Naja, jedes körperteil soll passen und es sind halt einfach viele körperteile involviert: Hüfte, Büste, Hals, Rück, achsel, handgelenk. Wie genau soll das den funktionieren, wenn man da nicht für jedes einzelne Teil ausrechnet, wie viele Maschen du anschlagen musst. Ja, das ist viel. Es ist aber auch viel zu stricken. Es ist aber - bis auf die Raglanabnahmen - immer der gleiche Dreisatz oder vielmehr einfach nur "Wie oft passt mein Musterfleck in dieses Maß"
So what if I buy a book that has several knitting stitches in it; chevrons, cables, laces, etc? And I use a Chevron stitch taught in that book, for example, and I knit a blanket using that stitch. And I sell that blanket. Am going to be sued for copywrite infringement because I used a stitch pattern from that book and that has been around for many decades? Stitch patterns have been published many times in many books for many, many years. So unless someone creates something so distinctive, so uniquely theirs, I would think it would be kind of hard to pursue a copywrite infringement. Everyone has used someone else's knitting or crochet stitch patterns every time they make something. I do agree with some of the copywrite disclaimers that are made. I wouldn't want my work stolen and claimed as theirs. But I think some creators go too far with their disclaimers.
