I ha ve never been so grateful to see a video like this. It brought me back to my childhood. My mom could knit almost as fast as you, Harlot. Thank you for the flash back.
Thank you so much for your 'nerdy' [Read: Thoughtful & Informed] approach to deconstructing the Yarn Harlot's knitting style. Your commentary on angles is particularly insightful.
Watching her knitting from several different videos, I've started holding my needles in a similar manner, wrapping the yarn with tighter movements, and it seems to go faster. Kudos Yarn Harlot!
I have always knit this way, thought everyone did until I discovered You Tube lol, but then again I'm Irish..... Seems all my friends and family have been speed knitters without knowing it
I thought I was the only one who knits this way..I made it up..maybe my Irish GG Grandmother sent me instuction from the great beyond? I am gobsmacked!
The nerd's touch is exactly what this video needed. I'll try to learn it. If anything it will be useful in mid-December. It seems to require more focus than I'd like to give to everyday, pastime knitting, stitchin' & bitchin'', television knitting and the like. Maybe with enough practise, even this ultra high speed knitting can become sufficiently automatic to allow for divided attention.
Well, I was told I was crazy to practice crocheting while not looking, but that skill led me to be able to crochet in class since I could stare at the teacher while making a blanket! (2dc, skip a gap, 2dc. made a shell like appearance and could find the gaps to work in with my fingers)
Sweet Heart I have no problem with your size, your brain is in your head. :). and I am grateful for you to uploading this for us. from my heart I thank you.
Although I hold the right needle differently, this is similar to the "flicking" method I use. One important thing I started doing, and it looks like Stephanie does it as well, happens when changing from knits to purls, and back again. This is to move the working yarn to the opposite side of the needle as the stitch is being moved. That really speeds it up.
This is not Irish Cottage Knitting. It is a version of English Lever Style. That's (almost) how we held the needles and yarn in Yorkshire to make knitting faster when knitting for a living except our movements are smaller, and therefore a bit faster.
LOL you know everyone is all connected in your area, yes? Saying it's English and not Irish without historical references doesn't mean much, and kinda slams the Irish. Maybe they came up with the techniques and they migrated to England (especially with lots of Irish migrating to Liverpool which is right next to Yorkshire), but because of political winners and losers of the time, they didn't get the credit. Just another way of looking at it.
I've watched this video over and over again - thanks for posting it but unfortunately you left out half the analysis -- how does she hold and tension the yarn? --- I wish I could see it better --- I just can't figure it out -- she seems to twist the yarn on her longest (middle) finger but in the opposite way to what I would have thought -- I just cant figure out how to keep the yarn tensioned enough to curl around the needle. I wish SPM would put out a DVD tutorial - I'd buy it in a flash!
I would love to learn this method of knitting (Irish Cottage/Lever Knitting) but I wish I can find a more in-depth tutorial, so far not yet to find one, if some sage knitters out there in internet land have any in-depth tutorial to share please do. 💗 Thank you.
Fast knitting, you say? Check out the video “Shetland Knitters Really Did Knit 200 Stitches Per Minute” by WoolyWoodlanders on TH-cam. THAT’S fast knitting! But this doesn’t look like Irish Cottage style. In that style, the wool is held by the left hand with the right needle under your arm. This looks like Continental. Still a fun video!🎉
@@kristanpettigrew-youngbloo1370Youngblood you're correct, but she also has it wrapped over the top of her ring finger which she uses to flick the yarn.
I can't figure out how she is tensioning the yarn. I have tried several ways of wrapping it, but I can't figure out how to anchor it and it keeps creeping up towards the tip of my finger. AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!
Too many of these demonstrations are all speed and no show. We get it: You're fast and it's easy for you. Both something to aspire to, but neither of which is any help in getting started on that road.
I'm Portuguese and this isn't Portuguese style. It's Peruvian. Please take a look at tejiendo Peru de Esperanza Rosas in TH-cam and you learn it right away she's very good although she speaks Spanish
This is how everyone here in N. Ireland is taught to knit in school. nothing special about it. Also no need to stick needle under arm. I don't know anyone who would do that.
My mother taught me to knit more than 50 years ago. English style and she started me out with my needle in my armpit. I don't do the armpit hold now, but definitely do the flick. When I taught beginner knitting I also suggested the armpit hold for anyone having trouble controlling the needles and the yarn.
I ha ve never been so grateful to see a video like this. It brought me back to my childhood. My mom could knit almost as fast as you, Harlot. Thank you for the flash back.
I was looking for speed knitting, and after over 30 videos, I’ve found it!
Thank you so much for your 'nerdy' [Read: Thoughtful & Informed] approach to deconstructing the Yarn Harlot's knitting style. Your commentary on angles is particularly insightful.
This is how I knit, my knitting has evolved over the years, glad to now have a name for it (I’m English of Irish descent).
this video is gold
This is how I knit. I find it a very fast, efficient way, and never gives any finger hand or arm fatigue
Watching her knitting from several different videos, I've started holding my needles in a similar manner, wrapping the yarn with tighter movements, and it seems to go faster. Kudos Yarn Harlot!
if you are a nerd then you must be the coolest nerd! bless you for sharing and breaking it in slo mo! I love your approach!
I have always knit this way, thought everyone did until I discovered You Tube lol, but then again I'm Irish..... Seems all my friends and family have been speed knitters without knowing it
I thought I was the only one who knits this way..I made it up..maybe my Irish GG Grandmother sent me instuction from the great beyond? I am gobsmacked!
You are an angel for sharing this - it was thoughtfully produced!
The nerd's touch is exactly what this video needed. I'll try to learn it. If anything it will be useful in mid-December.
It seems to require more focus than I'd like to give to everyday, pastime knitting, stitchin' & bitchin'', television knitting and the like. Maybe with enough practise, even this ultra high speed knitting can become sufficiently automatic to allow for divided attention.
Well, I was told I was crazy to practice crocheting while not looking, but that skill led me to be able to crochet in class since I could stare at the teacher while making a blanket! (2dc, skip a gap, 2dc. made a shell like appearance and could find the gaps to work in with my fingers)
Thank you for the "nerdy" aspects & doing the analysis. The angle measurements really helped me.
Glad it was helpful!
first thing first, thanks for sharing the technique,I enjoyed your humour too, ur video is entertaining!
Sweet Heart I have no problem with your size, your brain is in your head. :). and I am grateful for you to uploading this for us. from my heart I thank you.
Although I hold the right needle differently, this is similar to the "flicking" method I use. One important thing I started doing, and it looks like Stephanie does it as well, happens when changing from knits to purls, and back again. This is to move the working yarn to the opposite side of the needle as the stitch is being moved. That really speeds it up.
This is not Irish Cottage Knitting. It is a version of English Lever Style.
That's (almost) how we held the needles and yarn in Yorkshire to make knitting faster when knitting for a living except our movements are smaller, and therefore a bit faster.
LOL you know everyone is all connected in your area, yes? Saying it's English and not Irish without historical references doesn't mean much, and kinda slams the Irish. Maybe they came up with the techniques and they migrated to England (especially with lots of Irish migrating to Liverpool which is right next to Yorkshire), but because of political winners and losers of the time, they didn't get the credit. Just another way of looking at it.
I've watched this video over and over again - thanks for posting it but unfortunately you left out half the analysis -- how does she hold and tension the yarn? --- I wish I could see it better --- I just can't figure it out -- she seems to twist the yarn on her longest (middle) finger but in the opposite way to what I would have thought -- I just cant figure out how to keep the yarn tensioned enough to curl around the needle.
I wish SPM would put out a DVD tutorial - I'd buy it in a flash!
I knit continental (Swiss). It’s pretty fast too... especially in the round! ❣️🌹🇨🇭
I would love to learn this method of knitting (Irish Cottage/Lever Knitting) but I wish I can find a more in-depth tutorial, so far not yet to find one, if some sage knitters out there in internet land have any in-depth tutorial to share please do. 💗 Thank you.
This was so funny watching you slow it down haha!
Fast knitting, you say? Check out the video “Shetland Knitters Really Did Knit 200 Stitches Per Minute” by WoolyWoodlanders on TH-cam. THAT’S fast knitting!
But this doesn’t look like Irish Cottage style. In that style, the wool is held by the left hand with the right needle under your arm. This looks like Continental.
Still a fun video!🎉
Oh, I want to learn to knit like this.
I am sitting here with my needles practising.. heh heh
Love the vdo it's like learning from the predator haha thanks for the laugh. Great technique, btw.
this is the way i knit but i call it flicking =] and i find it just as fast if not fater than anyone i kno who knits continental
Wowdy girlfriend. I don't knit, but, would love to learn. Are you teaching us on TH-cam? I'm old, I do crochet, hoping I can learn this
this is the closest to my knitting style I've seen so far, but I change it up when I do ribbing
thanks for breaking this down.
love your nerd pic, lol.
You didn't show how she created the tension on the right hand.
Looks like it is wrapped around the middle finger only... could be wrong..
@@kristanpettigrew-youngbloo1370Youngblood you're correct, but she also has it wrapped over the top of her ring finger which she uses to flick the yarn.
Amazing!
That is insane, lol, I want to knit like that. :D
I knit like this too... I never knew what it was called!
this is so cool it is awesome i want to learn to knit like that
wen they went slow it was like they were demons LOL
I can't figure out how she is tensioning the yarn. I have tried several ways of wrapping it, but I can't figure out how to anchor it and it keeps creeping up towards the tip of my finger. AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!
I’m having the exact same problem
I knit continental but I want to learn this style! -
Grokked. Hahaha!
oh wow. if i can only do that.
reeeeeally fast, oh (wo)man!
You are not a nerd because you had TO FIND a proctor.
:D
Too many of these demonstrations are all speed and no show. We get it: You're fast and it's easy for you. Both something to aspire to, but neither of which is any help in getting started on that road.
i know right
Hilarious!
Wow to show may it would of been nice to go slow so we could really see
I'm Portuguese and this isn't Portuguese style. It's Peruvian. Please take a look at tejiendo Peru de Esperanza Rosas in TH-cam and you learn it right away she's very good although she speaks Spanish
"she's very good although she speaks Spanish" Unfortunate wording. ka ka
+Mariela Sessa I use Google language translator 😉
This is how everyone here in N. Ireland is taught to knit in school. nothing special about it. Also no need to stick needle under arm. I don't know anyone who would do that.
My mother taught me to knit more than 50 years ago. English style and she started me out with my needle in my armpit. I don't do the armpit hold now, but definitely do the flick.
When I taught beginner knitting I also suggested the armpit hold for anyone having trouble controlling the needles and the yarn.