Re: Continental Style knitting

Mirjam,

I am taking a class at the end of the month to learn that method of Fair Isle knitting. I'm sure it will be fun to learn something new!

take care, Linda D. in B.C., Canada

I've been knitting 40 years, and learned from the Learn How Book, so I started out with English-style -- except I cannot do the finger-flick to get the yarn around the needle. Left hand has to hold both needles while right hand lets go and wraps the yarn.

Thirty years ago, a new friend who'd learned to knit while in Germany showed me the "German" style, and I learned how to do the knit stitch Continental style from her. She taught me to hold the yarn the same way one does for crocheting, no extra wraps around the forefinger and the forefinger held low. Then she moved away -- and I had to figure out for myself how to purl that way!

I find Continental much easier and faster and relaxing. Especially when ribbing! I use both methods when doing Fair Isle, though, one color in each hand.

The lady always has the best advice. :)

OHHHH you make me Blush .. thank you Dennis,, mirjam ps over the many years i taught many knitters how to knit and i always felt that after they learned from me they should take a second teacher and learn other methods , So they can find the one that suits them...

By the way today i have to think of an interesting `problem`. I knit a sweater for my son [ as usual no seams , and i hope i can work out how to knit the sleeves with a middle part in another color ,, and keep it in the No Seam in the round method ,,,, Best solution would be to knit it Stripe, ]color a] change to colr B knit the round come to color A [stripe] join the last st. to this turn and purl back the color B round but + the color A stripe , but i fear the turn around point won`t be very elegant looking , thus i am going to try and make a sample with that idea in mind !!!! see what happens .... ??? mirjam

Please let us know Mirjam. U can make joining the color almost invisible if you do it like knitting. It is called the joggles stripe or joggles join. Just do a search. Emails me if you can not find it.

Dennis

Thank you Dennis i know of many ways to join colors , but my first priority is knitting it in the Round no seam!!!! And even though i knit 2 seprate round sleeves i still like them to go in the same tempo . Until a Month + ago i just had 2 sets of DPS and knitted each sleeve for 10 rounds than moved to the other ,,, Now i have aquired the system of knitting them on 2 long circulars, each of them having 1/2 of each sleeve .....I am not sure that knitting back and forth as well as keeping the 2 sleeves on the 2 Long circulars will come out nice or will cause confusion . It is true that i am not in any Marathon , but i am not the fastest knitter in the world and i would like the sweater finnished this winter!!! by the way it is a ARAN pattern [ But no cables ] in it`s general ides. I strated with the neck band , knitted 2 shoulder panels , than i made stitches on the panel + Neck band+ Panel ,,,, on both sides and now i knit both sides [on same circular + 2 different wool balls ,, till the armpits , where i will add the underarm stitches and than i can knit the body to wanted lenght. Than i will collect the Shoulder band st, add st, on theside of the panels , add st on the `under armholes` st... and knit the sleeves downwards ,, I made the Neck band + the shoulder band from another color that the main body ,,, Thus one of the idea was to make the shoulder band =3DDiferent color all along the sleeve ,,,but than maybe it would be better to knit the sleeves length wise ,, [ which i did in another one ] ,,,,, No i still have to think about it !!!! mirjam