Learning to knit faster can be a rewarding way to increase your project output. Here Nancy demonstrates a couple of techniques (and tips) to speed up your knitting. Give it a try! (Practice makes perfect).
You've definitely given me some things to think about. You've definitely made me a better knitter. I've modified my grip thanks to you and am no longer experiencing pain while knitting. Am also going to invest some more time into investigating the flicking technique. Many thanks for your continued teachings. I am constantly learning many new techniques through your videos. I learned how to weave tails into your work between color changes just the other day.
I like to see all the ways of knitting. Think keeping the stitches at the tip helps me, if I can remember to be consistent. Your sweater is beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing. You have a very nice calm voice and way of teaching and showing "how".
I believe that Eastern uncrossed knitting is even faster. The yarn is always wrapped in the opposite direction. The stitches are always back leg forward. The purl stitch is slower (still wrapped the other direction from English or Continental. Not the combined method The stitches are always oriented the same way.) but I'm almost always knitting in the round so I can do knit stitches almost all the time.
So funny! I use my finger next to my index finger on the right hand, I never noticed before, and hardly move my wrists at all. Very interesting video, I will deff try picking one day.
@@nancyshulman3667 Nancy, Thank you for the sweater info! Purchased the pattern this morning and entertained myself for way too long looking at the 1,142 projects!
I would love to knit Continental but the purling is problematic for me because my left hand is just along for the ride. It holds the left needle and can push a stitch down or off, but flicking or otherwise moving the yarn back and forth between front and back of work between knitting and purling is not gonna happen. 🤷🏻♀️
The flicking motion might be a bit bigger with holding the yarn behind the finger in her continental way, but the flick is maybe smaller if you hold the yarn on the front side of the finger. Difficult to analyze but I’m a continental knitter and I think I make a small flick movement as well 😄 Of course depends a lot on your own body and even the tension you have in your knitting 🤔