[Nfb-krafters-korner] Beginner's knitting

[Annette Carr]

Continental knitting is when you use your left hand to hold and control the
yarn.  You use the right hand needle to "pick" the yarn by wrapping the
needle around the yarn and pulling the loop that is around the needle back
through the stitch on the left needle.  The English style of knitting holds
the yarn in the right hand.  Some people release the needle that is held in
the right hand to free up their right hand to wrap, also known as "throwing"
" the yarn around the right needle.  My understanding is that there is a way
to control the yarn with the right hand and not let go of the right needle
when knitting English.  There appears to be many variations of these 2
techniques that go by such names as Portuguese and Turkish.  I think that I
read that there is a Spanish technique where you hold one needle between
your arm and body so that you can control the yarn with one hand and the
needle with the other.  Many knitters will tell you that it is good to know
how to use multiple techniques.  It is like having a tool for every job.

Annette


-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Denise Shaible
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 3:28 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Beginner's knitting

What is the difference between continental and the other type, I can't
remember what it's called?  Is it a matter of the hand in which you hold the
yarn?  I'd like to know because I don't know which one I use and if a class
is taught in a style I don't know, then either I have to learn that style or
wait for another class.  I'm interested.  I never knew there were different
types until just recently when I saw it in a reference for how to knit
certain stitches and I also heard about it when I was speaking with someone
at our KK table at National.

Regards,

Denise

-----Original Message-----
From: Blindhands at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 8:10 AM
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Beginner's knitting

Now I will have to talk with Annette as I do not  knit continental  style
and if that is what Annette taught last year it might not be wise for me  to
partner with her to teach a purl stitch,

I will have to give this some thought and consider what to do and how I can
help.

Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) Blindhands at AOL.com


In a message dated 8/17/2013 7:14:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
butterfly05 at earthlink.net writes:

Annette,

Since your class in January I can fly with the knit  stitch but find the
purl stitch much slower and at times, challenging. I  heard on a knitting
podcast that there is a knitter in New York City who  teaches a Turkish
style of purling that is popular with all who learn it.  Are you familiar
with this?
If there is a pattern that has extensive  purling, I tend to avoid it on the
needles so I would like to  improve.

Karen


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