[Nfb-krafters-korner] which style knitting do you use?

[Dani Pagador]

Hi, Valerie.
It sounds like you're knitting in to the front and back of a stitch,
increasing your stitch count on the r.h needle to two instead of one.

You insert the r.h. needle in to the stitch on your l.n from front to
back, yo to knit, bring the stitch over the tip of the r.n, but don't
drop it off.

Swing the tip of your r.n to the right and behind the point of your
l.n. This will twist the stitch on your l.n (think of looping a rubber
band around something more than once; you'd need to twist it to get a
second loop to go around.). Now put your r.n. through the stitch on
your l.n from right to legt, with the tip of your r.n crossing behind
your l.n. Yarn over as to knit, bring the stitch on your l.n. over
your r.n and drop the stitch off the l.n. Two stitches are on your
r.n; the second one comes from the twist you made in the stitch on
your l.n.

Hope this makes sense.

Happy Knitting,
Dani


On 1/30/14, Valerie <rosetta at adam.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Cathy, thanks very much. Now can you tell me if this is then another
> style of stitch? I clearly remember that after stitches were on the l.h.
> needle, you held the yarn in left hand as you described, but the bit I
> remember also is that you pointed the tips of the needles together towards
> one another, tip to tip, then pushed the tip of the right hand needle from
> the front of that first stitch, but actually through the back part of the
> stitch, you then picked up the yarn over from over your l.h finger with the
> r.h  needle and drew it through onto the r.h needle. Forgive me if this
> sounds silly, but I can't work out what this stitch might be. Thanks
> valerie
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> Hi Valerie,
>
> It is not that the stitches are done differently it is only that the
> needles
> are held differently.
>
> The continental method is where you thread the working yarn through the
> fingers on your left hand
> and use one finger to yarn over and the other needle to knit. In the
> American style you have the
> working yarn in your right hand and throw it over the needle to yarn over
> and the yarn is not
> threaded through your fingers. I know nothing about the Portuguese style. I
> can't picture knitting
> with the working yarn around my neck. <smile>
> Cathy F
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