This video knitting tutorial will help you learn how to tension your yarn when knitting. I get a lot of questions about how I hold my yarn when I knit. There are many ways to hold your yarn. This is just one way. If you have
another way that works for you don’t feel like you need to change. This method will work for both english style and continental style knitting. Having good tension will make your knitting more even and even help you knit faster. Skill: Beginner Step 1: Pick up your working yarn close to the working needle by scooping it up with the pinkie of your dominant hand. Keep your hand closed to put tension on the yarn and open your fingers to let slack come through as you knit. Here is what the yarn should look like threaded through your fingers: [sidebar alias=”after-post” ] What if I told you, you could actually knit faster and have more even tension. I'm going to show you how to do that with continental knitting in the video below! Continental Knitting vs English Knitting MethodIf you're knitting the traditional (English) throw method, you hold your yarn in your wrap it around holding the working in your right hand and you wrap it around. So there's a lot of movement with this hand and moving this yarn. To knit continental style, you're going to move it over to your left hand. Bring the yarn across from the back. How to Hold the Working YarnSome people wrap it around their pinky. Some people wrap it around their finger. What I tend to do when I'm knitting continental is I weave it through my fingers. Then I control my yarn by just slightly moving in and out to feed it. My fingers maintain the yarn tension and then I lift my finger to control whether I'm knitting or purling. So I'll show you how that's done. Rather than the large movement you make wrapping the yarn around you're going to be kind of picking the yarn through. Insert into the next stitch and then you just kind of do a quick little pick of that yarn. You are still in essence wrapping it around but the needle is doing all the work rather than your finger or your hand. You are just pulling up that yarn which is the same thing as wrapping it around the needle and you can see how much quicker that movement is as I'm knitting. You can also see how the yarn is being fed trough my fingers but the whole movement is so effortless. Give yourself some time to get used to this method but once you get the hang of it, it really is very quick, easy, and relaxing way to knit. You kind of have to play around with it until you feel comfortable. Think of it like learning to tie your shoes. That was not comfortable when you started doing it. But you get it down and now it's effortless. You don't even think twice about it. This is the same kind of thing. The index finger maintains the tension of my yarn. This second finger controls the yarn that's on the needle. That's kind of my feeder finger. I feed it with my thumb and my next finger. But there's very little movement over here. This right hand is now doing all of the work. It's going in and doing all of the picking. It's a very nice movement. Give it a try. It's called continental knitting and let me know in the comments below how this method is working for you. Pin It for Later
There are so many ways to hold your knitting needles and yarn and everyone seems to have their own style. I'd like you to keep in mind that it does take awhile to feel comfortable knitting. And as you begin to settle in more you'll find your own way to hold your knitting needles. And you'll find a way of doing it all by yourself as you carry on learning to knit. Sometimes is just happens that way. As you relax more with knitting it will all become automatic in a way. Of course it's always nice to see how someone else does it right? All right then, I'll give you some ideas on how to hold your needles and yarn and then you can try some ways on your own.  How to Hold Your Knitting NeedlesHolding your knitting needles is a matter of personal preference. As you continue learning how to knit you'll relax more and develop a nice little knitting rhythm all your own. That's when you'll find your very own perfect and unique way of holding the needles and yarn. At first it will feel a little awkward though, no two ways about it! So just give yourself a little time. You'll get it! A couple
of ways to try holding your knitting needles For the top set of photos my hands are over the needles In the second set above they're being held like pencils. You can try both or mix them up a bit or simply create your own unique style. This is How I Hold My Needles And YarnMy left hand steadies the needle and my forefinger helps to guide the knitting stitches. I hold the right needle between my thumb and forefinger and my hand is slightly over the needle. A lot of people will stick the yarn over their forefinger on the right hand photo. Somehow I got used to knitting with the yarn going over my middle finger instead. Sometimes I tuck the right needle under my arm. But that's me. There's no right or wrong way so experiment with it and see what works better for you. How to Hold Your Knitting Yarn...Some people don't even try to hold the knitting yarn a certain way. They just let the yarn hang down loosely until they need to wrap it around the needle. It works very well for lots of people. Holding your knitting yarn comes down to comfort once again and how well it works for you. What you will have to decide is which knitting method you want to use though. The two most common are the English knitting method and the Continental knitting method. Some people use both methods and it works for them so be sure to try both. I'm left-handed and I knit the English knitting method or right-handed way. I've been knitting for so many years now and I've tried knitting the Continental style. I can manage the knit stitch and that's it. :) But I think I'm too set in my ways to switch over and I'm quite comfortable knitting the English method. Description Of English And Continental Knitting MethodsThe English knitting
method means that your right hand will be moving the knitting needle through the stitches on your left hand needle. If you decide to wrap the knitting yarn around your fingers you will wrap the right hand. Here are two ways to try. See if one of them works for you. The Continental knitting method means that your left hand will be moving the knitting needle through the stitches on your right hand needle. And if you decide to wrap the knitting yarn around your fingers you will wrap the left hand. Here are two ways to try. Just experiment. Some knitters don't even bother winding the yarn around their fingers. So don't feel that you have to do this. Once you've been knitting awhile your way will become the way that works for you. Everyone does it a little differently. Which Knitting Method Should You Choose?The one that feels right for you! Honestly. You might want to try both knitting methods to see which one is more comfortable. Once again, it's
going to feel awkward at first so take your time in finding the knitting method that you like. Learning to hold your knitting needles and yarn takes practice and patience so don't worry too much about it for now. Just start knitting - you'll get it. To help you along a bit I found two knitting videos for both styles of knitting (English and Continental). These videos will show you a couple of ways to hold your yarn. How To Hold Your Yarn Knitting Video-English StyleHow To Hold Yarn Knitting Video-Continental StyleImportant Note About Learning To Hold Your Knitting NeedlesPlease
don't feel that you have to learn how to hold your knitting needles and yarn. There really isn't one way to do it. And there's definitely no right or wrong way. A lot of people simply knit the way that makes them feel comfortable and that's what I want you to do as well. Over time you'll pick up your knitting and hold your knitting needles just the way you like. Like This Page? Please Share itHow do you hold yarn tension in Continental Knitting?Take the working yarn in your right hand (a habitual action for a knitter who uses English way of knitting), and place it on your left index finger and under the middle + ring + little fingers. Here's how it looks: 3. Close your left middle + ring + little fingers to hold the yarn and the needle securely.
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