I decided to sleep in and not go into work until around 1 today. Ah the beauty of being a graduate student assistant. Anyway, in the midst of doing laundry and re-potting plants, I decided to take those pictures that I promised Fluxx to show and example of the knitting styles. So here we are. The first two pictures are continental style, where the yarn is carried on the left hand, which really reminds me of how I carried the yarn for crocheting.
Next, is one picture of english style knitting, which is hard to take a picture of when you are right handed! The yarn is "thrown" around the needles with the right hand instead of "picked" off the yarn held in the left as in the continental style.
I'm really liking the continental for knitting stitch, but having a hard time with the purl stitch still. I need to practice more. Finding the time is the hard part.
I'm going to try to get some WIP pics up later on tonight.
Heya,thanks for not forgetting about the styles!
I just have a problem: There's only two photos there, both showing the yarn in your left hand. Is it my computer or is it vox?
By the way, you know that with the purl stitch, you have the yarn in front of the needles, not behind as with the knit stitch? Does that solve your hard time or do you have a different problem with purling? If that is the case: Can you post pictures?
I guess I forgot to put that last pic in hehe. Anyway, yeah I know to have the yarn at the front, I think it's just that it's the different way of doing things that is fouling up the process.
you knit/purl differently than I do, though I think I sort of do it continental, trouble is I may have learned from a left handed knitter and I do not do the full arm wrap, if that makes sense.
The yarn is always in my left hand be it knitting or purling… the location of my finger just changes.
Ok I have to stop writing everything seem so funny out of context. I need coffee.
I want to learn how to KNIT! It's so relaxing….
Go run some multiple regression in SPSS. . .that's all the mental heath therapy one needs;)
oh that made me laugh. I'm a SAS girl who sometimes dabbles in R
Ok, next time you and JC end up in OC, stop by my wife's Uncle's place and while relaxing fishing, you can run any 'ole dayum stat package ya want! They're all so relaxing;) Just don't drink all the beer or no one is gonna relax when I get there:O
but this dabbling in R . . . isn't that as impossible as being slightly pregnant??:O
Thanks once more!
I still don't really understand how not-continental style works. But then, since continental is quicker and I like things to go quick, maybe I just don't need to know.
I'm more puzzled by your purling problem. You have the yarn in front, you insert the hook from behind and pull the yarn through – it is exactly mirrored from the knit version. — As a kid, I did not like purling, so I just switched hands: yarn to the right hand and knit with the left hand. Since I'm no good with my left hand it took longer than purling, but I felt I had saved myself a lot of trouble. And it was nice to just see the piece from the right side all the time.
Yay for mental health days! That's something that I took very seriously in the past, making sure that periodically, I did a day with no plans, just to help my mental health
I haven't done one recently, but it sure is a blessing to me when I do them 
And I've found that knitting continental actually speeds things up for me when I'm alternating knit and purl because I don't have to move my right hand nearly as much – it's more moving my pointer finger on my left hand from the back to the front, which speeds me up. I got really good at continental when I worked on a scarf that was *k1,p1*, it gave me a lot of time to get used to it!
Very good! I've never quite figured out continental style, although a few of my European friends knit this way and swear that it's faster once you get the hang of it.