Knitter's POLL

I still have and treasure the Learn How Book from which I learned to knit, crochet and tat. It has a copyright date of 1941 by The Spool Cotton Company which I believe was the predecessor to Coats and Clark. The price was 10 cents. What do you suppose they cost today?

Yes. Knitting sticks and belts are used with dpns only. I don't know of any non-dpn needles being used before the mid-19th century. The long needle with needle-butt placed or held under arm is the equivalent that lets you use the same technique.

=Tamar

It depends!!!! If I am using 14" straight needles, I knit the way I was first taught in England. RH needle tucked firmly in the right armpit for support, second knuckle of right thumb supporting the needle, and hand free to throw the yarn; left hand doing as much manipulating of tips as RH does. If, OTOH, I am using circulars, I knit continental.

At our last Guild meeting one member had her 100 year old born - in - Scotland grandmother as a guest. She spotted me knitting and said "My, it's a long time since I saw anybody knit that way!"

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

$2.25 at Hobby Lobby in Missouri...

Anastasia

--who is surprised she remembered that, seeing as how her employment there ended last July.

Continental Noreen, or sort of adapted Continental. Taught English, age 7, by my Mum, who then went out to do dinner and apparently when she came back I was "doing something odd with the needles" and have done something odd with the needles ever since. I can knit English, and in fact taught that to DD2, aged 20 this Christmas, she was much more comfortable with it. She made a nose warmer for her friend (hysterically funny!!) I just find Continental easier, quicker and gives a more even tension; just what I'm used to I guess. So "Yay for Continental!"

Love & higs Christine

Continental for Dennis

Nearly always Continental because that's what I was taught to do by my mother, who was taught by her mother, when I was 8 years old. I taught myself to use English for when I'm working with two or more colors, but my first love remains Continental.

Gawd you would flipping have to ask wouldn't you...tsch tsch...cos I knit but ain't gotta clue what you call it...guess it's probably English version, I hold the needles and the yarn goes sort of under my little finger up over my middle finger and down over the index finger of my right hand, and I just flick the yarn over to make the next stitch without letting go of the needles at all...

So what is that called'''''dyslexic knitter????'''''' something weird and wonderful I've no doubt...

well you DID ask...and I don't have a clue what it is termed as...

cheers......Cher

Hi Cher,

That's all right the way you knit. I had to get out a pair of needles and yarn and see what way I do it, found out that it's English. LOL

Hugs,

Nora

me, too! -- both. I learned to throw at four-years-old. I picked up pick as an adult. When I teach others to knit, I teach them to throw. And, I knit really fast with pick. I use both throw and pick in extra special two color knitting.

_ _ _ _ _ Millie snipped-for-privacy@eagle.ptialaska.net Death has no beard.

How are newsgroups and knitters alike? ...they both join long threads -- like this one!

_ _ _ _ _ Millie snipped-for-privacy@eagle.ptialaska.net Death has no beard.

Funny how we just do it and don't really think about it isn't it...like typing, I touch type so never look at the keyboard, always at the screen when I look down I can see the keys but can't work them out....weird, it's cos I learnt to touch type at an early age, so if I look at the keys I'm sat there thinking now where is ...K... or something, I can see it, but it doesn't register....just thick....lol

Cheers....cher

LOL

Higs, Katherine

And we have a wonderful pattern [ of mutual respect ] here. mirjam

I am still facinated that you all call it THROW , i don`t feel i am throwing .... i think i am slow , but people watching me tell me i am quick,,, [i am not !!!] in cases of more than one color i tend to add the other method [ taking from the left side] ,,, stil amused ,, Throwing :>:>:>:> mirjam

I learned to knit English/American but the throwing aggravated my right index finger. So, I got a book from the library and taught myself to knit Continental/German. Does that make me an ambidextrous knitter????

BonnieBlue

I suppose it's really wrapping the yarn around the needle with your right hand. "Throw" does sound a bit off to me, as well. It's really just a "yarn over" being pulled through a stitch.

-- Carey in MA