There was someone round here who always recommended knitting by using a socket to hold one needle. I like the idea and can see the benefit but I wonder how one uses several yarns (i.e. different colours or textures) while only using one hand.
Mary
Are you thinking of the knitting socket that Aaron recommended Mary?
The Needle holder was used Mainly for [or by ] persons who knitted while walking .. mirjam
Ah, that was him - where is he?
Mary
I sent you a Drawing of a man knitting with a holder ,,, My source is a very good book. mirjam
The holder (sheath) just means you don't have to hold the right-hand needle with your hand, so you have a hand completely free to manipulate the yarn. If you do multicolor knitting by holding one color in each hand, it still works the same way for the left hand and the right hand is freer.
There is an old picture of a man with a gadget on his belt, strapped to the front of his left hip, that holds three balls of yarn on pegs so the yarn can be pulled as needed. I think the yarn then goes up to a hook or hooks up by the left shoulder on the front, and then down to the knitting. The yarn is then thrown with the left thumb. It's a kind of automated continental style except that the angle makes it easier to purl than to knit. People who use that kind of system often work stockinette in the round by purling all the time instead of knitting. That can be done either by working the tube inside out or by working on the far side of the tube instead of the side closest to you. But it makes the spiral go in the opposite direction.
=Tamar
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