I relearning how to knit again. When I learned to do it as a child I wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't "swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my style called?
COntinental. It is supposed to be quicker than English, which is what I do. Congratulations on picking up knitting again!
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Some people call the motion you use (Continental) "picking" and the motion used in "English" style knitting is called "throwing".
=Tamar
I knit like that always have, but I also hook it up around my little ''pinky-baby''' finger then around the index finger, I guess it is the same, but I think the extra hooking gives a better or higher tension, at the end of the day, neither method is better than the other, it is all a case of what you get used to I think and both methods result in a knitted material.
Shepherds used to knit with just one needle so I'm told, goodness knows how, I'd drop all the stitches, must have been a right and wrong way for this one...lol
I think "shepherd's knitting" is slipstitch crochet, done through only the front of the loop; Priscilla Gibson-Roberts researched it and similar methods (Bosnian crochet, etc). It makes a very thick fabric and is done with a wide hook; the hook width is used to control the size of the loop.
=Tamar
Thanks for all your replies. I now know that I do continental.
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