Yeah - that is a GREAT idea…maybe we can come up with some as we learn how to do this - you know, knit poetry:roflhard:
Mademtj- I’ll direct you to a site I found. This is a [B]great[/B] tutorial on Continental Purling, and it shows many different ways to wrap the yarn. Check it out!
Link:
http://explaiknit.typepad.com/contpurling.pdf (pdf)
I use the method where I push the yarn down with my index finger, and it’s very efficient and requires less motion than the wrap in Amy’s videos.
i can’t do it anymore!!! :pout:
i decided to try to open a bag of frozen veggies with a steak knife…needless to say, it didn’t go well, and while i didn’t need stitches, i had to tape my fingertip shut on my left index finger…i’m not even sure i’ll be able to knit my normal way!!
what will i do?! :pout::pout:
Ouch, sorry! Maybe you could push the yarn down with your middle finger instead, that way, nothing would come in contact with your fingertip.
thanx ContiKnitter, thats a great tutorial! i knew u’d be lots of help:hug:, now i’m purling like a pro! (well, sort of:teehee:)
Oh, no! i hope it heals up real soon, megan:heart:
Give yourself a week or so. I cut the tip of my middle finger a couple of weeks ago. It was pretty bad, but I didn’t get stitches. I just put a bandaid on it and didn’t knit for a week.
one week?!?!
:passedout:
i don’t know if i’m going to make it! :teehee:
Just realized I can post the youtube directly into the post…so here it is. I find I am more of a visual learner so watching the video really helped me out…
what an awesome video!
maybe i CAN learn how to knit that way with my gimpy finger…i’ll give it a few days off just incase. it’s WAY WAY WAY faster then the throwing method…i kept thinking that today when i was knitting on my green gable…how i could do 2 times as many knits in the time it takes me to do a round, because i’d eliminate the throw…
i need some sugar and cream for those dishclothes…
i can’t knit…but i can shop!!!
you don’t have to do a dishcloth, y’know. i just chose this pattern cus its all knits, but you can make anything you want, as long as u do it continental:thumbsup:
Shopping is always good. More yarn. I really need to start hiding mine the family is beginning to look at me strangely.:shrug: Hope the finger feels better. As soon as I finish this kitchen sink bag or I go get some needles I will start my dish cloth. Ok let’s face it I will be getting the needles well before I get the bag done. Is having three projects on the needles nutty?
Well, last night I knitted a whole row continental on my “scarf” (172 stitches) and tonight I was going to purl continental… got frustrated cuz it’s wierdly yarns, so switched to English for the purl row, and about halfway down I noticed (may have been sooner, and I didn’t notice?) all my stitches were twisted… did I knit wrong last nite, or is it not possible to switch back and forth between methods? I have been checking out the videos… even watched while I was doing it:?? I feel confident I messed up, but thought I would check first… do I make sense?:shock:
Yeah - I thought of doing a sampler scarf with different stitch patterns - that’s how I learned English and I was just as clumsy with the needles when I started that way as I am now with the Continental :roflhard:
BUT - my original sampler is just rolled up and stashed as it has as many “bad” areas :ick: as good and I figure even the worst dishcloth can be used in my kitchen for washing the dishes (but maybe the “good” ones will end up as some pre-made gifts!) :roflhard:
Glad the video was helpful :cheering:
Count me in too! I’ve been wanting to switch to Continental! I’ll start the dishcloth too, it’ll give me a break from knitting my girl’s HP PoA scarf.
Is this just for the summer?
Now THAT’S the right attitude! :roflhard: I’m glad to see your spirits are lifted!
i tried it at lunch today making sure my yarn wasn’t going across my finger. so far it’s okay. kinda weird, but i had the same feeling when i first started. i can’t imagine teaching a beginner this method, but maybe it’s because i haven’t done it enough.
my students (i have a group of coworkers i teach at work) were all laughing at me because i couldn’t talk or look up and looked like i was concentrating really hard…needless to say, i like to point that out about newbies when i’m teaching them. hahahaa
is it possible to knit and purl either way within a project, with the same results? Or do the two methods deliver the stitches to the right needle differently? That may be clearer than the way I asked above?
i think it’s the same stitches because you go into the stitch the same way, BUT in that video posted above she said she knits continental a LOT looser then she does english. so maybe that’s why your purls look so different, because you are knitting them a lot tighter.
Continental [I]does[/I] give you a looser tension, because of the relationship of stitches to yarn to needles. With the English, method, wrapping the yarn tightens up the stitch, with Continental, there is no pull to tighten up the stitch, so of course it is going to be looser. So, Continental might be the solution if you’re a tight knitter who knits in the English method.
That explains why I can’t seem to get any tension with conti as compared to English. I thought it was just me.