I have been wanting to try Continental knitting, so last night I finally did it!! I think it will be faster overall once I get the hang of it. I have one question though.
I have about 2 feet knitted of a scrunchable scarf with some Malabrigo (Yummy!! All of you were right!!! ) that I just bought, and I tried a few rows of the pattern using the continental method. The entire row looked like the stitches were twisted. Is this common when switching from English to Continental? Or did I just mess it up? All of the stitches looked fine, they were just twisted. I decided to go ahead and rip it back to where it looks right because Malabrigo just doesn’t deserve to be knitted any way but perfectly!
Maybe it is just better to start and complete a project with one style of knitting.
I used to twist mine because I kept knitting in the backloop - I’m self-taught and misunderstood the directions in the book. Didn’t realize it until I took my work to the LYS to ask an unrelated question and they asked why the heck I was doing a twisted rib. :teehee:
I don’t know if you are doing the same thing…but I was inserting my needle from right to left, in the back of the loop. You are supposed to insert it from left to right, in the front of the loop. Check if you are making the same mistake I was.
This sounds like a similar problem to what I had when I first started knitting Continental. I found that I was wrapping my yarn in the wrong direction while purling. :oops: That is, when I brought my middle finger down to wrap the yarn, I’d wrap clockwise instead of counterclockwise. I corrected this by mentally imagining how I’d throw the yarn English style, then making sure I wrapped the yarn the same way Continental.
If you haven’t tried this yet, you might want to do half a row in English, then half a row in Continental - then compare the stitches side by side and see whether there’s a difference.
) that I just bought, and I tried a few rows of the pattern using the continental method. The entire row looked like the stitches were twisted. Is this common when switching from English to Continental? Or did I just mess it up? All of the stitches looked fine, they were just twisted. I decided to go ahead and rip it back to where it looks right because Malabrigo just doesn’t deserve to be knitted any way but perfectly!