Stranded Knitting - Methods of Holding Yarns
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- This is a demonstration of a variety of techniques for holding two yarns when working stranded knitting.
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I know this video is almost six years old but we are still discovering and learning from you, Suzanne. I appreciate your skill and clarity of explanation. It's like having a grandmother-wise knitter around the corner! Many thanks.
Big thank you for lovely clear shots and description. I'm a thrower, and have always struggled with using two or more colours. I'm flying along now using both hands! I've been knitting almost 50 years, so just shows you are never too old to learn a new trick. 😀
I love holding one yarn in each hand. It goes so much quicker. Happy knitting!
Its always great to learn different ways of knitting. 💕💖
I totally agree! 🧶
Thank you so much for sharing your expertise! Your voice is so calm, it projects a “you can do it” feeling. I especially appreciated the segment about tension in this video.
Thank you Faylise James! Happy knitting.
Thanks for a great description of the different ways to hold the yarn. Being new to stranded knitting, I've been struggling with this a bit and this has been a big help.
Glad it was helpful!
I absolutely LOVE watching these videos! It’s nice to have the expertise of someone with so much experience (who’s probably made every mistake I’ll run into myself), but with options!! Instead of watching 20 different videos, I can see many ways to do something, the pros/cons, and results, and decide for myself which fits MY style best.
Plus...I like the “straight to the point” clips. I really dislike the hosts that just LOOOOVE to see themselves on camera.
Thank you.
I like to watch several different videos to learn a new technique and always end up coming back to yours. They are the best. You take your time and don't rush through the demo. Thank You for your expertise.
Thank you! Happy knitting.
Naturally, when I want to learn how to do stranded knitting, the BEST video on it is from Susanne.
Thank you. I'm not even close to knitting stranded, but I learned so much just by watching this video. Now, I won't be as afraid of attempting multiple colors, when I reach that level.
This is wonderful to hear, Stacy! I appreciate you watching and commenting on my videos! ❤️
Thank you Suzanne. I’m a new knitter who has been trying for years to learn. I crochet. If I hadn’t have found your channel I’m not sure I would have learned. You’re very clear and easy to follow and I love to watch you knit. Thanks to you I am now a knitter.
Wonderful! Thank you! Happy knitting.
Meticulous and comprehensive!
With clarity and precise instruction she covered every stitch, method and detail required to create this intricate design.
Anyone listening/learning from her, would be able to reproduce a project as beautiful as the one she demonstrated for us.
What an Amazing teacher!
Thankyou!
I love your your style of teaching. You don’t rush and are very easy to understand. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
Thanks for this lovely video
You are so welcome, Fatima! 😊
I knit for many years, learned it at school but just the basics, so I figured it out for my self f.e. how to knit with 2 colors. Nowadays I search in your videos first before I start a new item because you make knitting so much easier and neater.
That is so awesome, Anne-Marie! ❤️ I really appreciate your feedback!
Your videos are so helpful. Such clear descriptions and so easy to see what's going on in the videos. Thank you for these.
Thank you Lynn, I'm happy to help!
Thank you for your video - I really appreciated the way you slowed down so that we could see each different method of holding the yarn.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much. 30+ years a knitter and I still needed to know how others do it!
You are so welcome! Happy New Year!
As a "picker" I really appreciate this video which shows the difference and helps me approach two handed knitting for my first "fair isle kep"....
Great. Thank you and happy knitting.
You need an "I love it!" button. Thank you!
Thank you too!
You remain one of the best knitting teachers on this site. I've learned so much from you over the years. Thank you for finally showing a technique for the lefties out here! I'm a "picker," as it turns out. I'd like to learn true continental, but I'm just not that coordinated, lol.
Wow, thank you! I'm sure with some practice you could knit continental, Amanda, but there's nothing wrong with being a "picker"! 😉
I've never done stranded knitting because I didn't know how to deal with the yarns. I really enjoyed how you demonstrated the different methods. I'm keeping your demo in my library, you do a wonderful job of explaining your work. I give you an A+ :)
Thanks Carolyn. I agree, that is what kept me from trying it for quite awhile. But once I got the hang of it, I was hooked. Happy knitting.
Excellent. I'm learning. Your tips are really a blessing. Thank you.
You are so welcome, Larry, thanks for watching!
I am just learning this technique.You are a very good teacher.I appreciate what you are doing.Thank you
You are very welcome
Thanks, great instruction and visuals. I especially appreciate the concise language you use and the demonstration of typical problems, like getting the floats too tight. 💪💪
Awesome, thank you! Happy Holidays.
Learned how to knit from watching your videos. So detailed. Thank you!
Thank you! Happy knitting!
Thank You just doesn't seem to be enough to really to express my gratitude. I am a new new knitter, and being my lifelong over achiever self, I bought a pattern that to me means I will have accomplished what I set out to do, in finally learning to knit. At 40 something, I had tried and failed to learn to knit a half dozen times. I tried to convince myself that crocheting was enough over the last three decades, but socks have been a disappointment all that time. Now with TH-cam I had finally done it I knitted socks. Of course they are basic with the only color changes at the heels and toes. Now I thought that color work pattern was obtainable. Nope. But the pattern was similar enough to what you were doing here, that I finally got it. Knitting this type of socks was actually No. 3 on my bucket list and now thanks to you I've been able to mark it off my list. Like I said, Thank You just doesn't seem to be enough.
You are quite the adventurous knitter. I am so glad to be of help to you. This makes me very happy. Have a great day and happy knitting.
This was so helpful! I appreciate your calm manner as well as the helpful tips!
Im so glad I found your tutorials! You explain things so clearly, and the photography is excellent.
I'm looking forward to improving my pretty basic understanding with your videos. Thanks!
Wonderful, I love hearing this, Toni! You are very welcome! ❤️
Hi Suzanne, I just started watching your channel. I am new to colour work and can really appreciate the hands on method of knitting tutorials. It makes learning so much easier. Cant wait to watch all your tutorials on the different methods and techniques. Thank you so much. I love your channel. 🙃
Welcome!
Thank u, thank u for showing this video, I’m mostly continental and the dual throw/pick method makes sense to me!
So glad it was helpful, Aggie; you are very welcome! 😊
I like the pace of instruction and the optional techniques of applying the stranded knitting method. Thanks!
Thanks Beth.
Amazing technique using both Throwing and Picking. Really enjoy your teaching and close up video
Hello Suzanne
I just wanted to say thank you for your clear and precise instructions. I really enjoy your video's you give us many different way of being able to achieve a pattern, the way its meant to
look. I am so grateful to be able to watch and learn even after all these years, you have shown me so many things I didn't know but wished I had someone to show me when I was young.
So a heartful thank you again.🌹
That is such a pretty pattern. I'm just learning. Gotta walk before I fly...
Thanks KD! If you're interested, I also have a Facebook page (same name) that is filled with supportive knitters at every level and we love to help new knitters learn to fly! 😉
Wonderful clear instruction. THANKYOU
You’re so welcome, Evelyn! I really appreciate your feedback! 😊
I think it is a very nice decorative white "blip" as you call it at 8:22 . Starting the ribbing with a knitted row doesn't look so fancy. Of course there's no need to be ALWAYS fancy.
Thanks for these slow paced, in depth tutorials, I subscribed and will watch them all.
You are so welcome, Nicole! Thanks for subscribing! ❤️
Thanks for the clearest most helpful video on this subject!
You are very welcome, Heather! I really appreciate your kind feedback! ❤️
This video has been so helpful for figuring out how to work with two yarns!! Thank you very much!
Glad it was helpful! 🧶
I found this video so helpful too, for working with two yarns and both hands. Thank you so much for demonstrating this Suzanne.
Easily the best video on this technique. Thank you so much!
Wow, thank you! Happy Holidays.
Excellent video! Thank you for this incredibly clarifying demonstration.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you. Love your method of instruction
You are so welcome, Deb; I appreciate your kind feedback! 😊
Thank you Suzanne, I love your videos, your explanations are very clear and you make it look possible, also for me! I'm a very beginning knitter, and you have shown me how to do it and made it possible for me to turn out acceptable looking garments that I've been proud to have made. Again, thank you so much!
Wonderful! 🧶
Hi Suzanne, thank you for such an educational video 😁
I've only ever attempted fair isle knitting once in my many years of knitting. I was always fearful of getting it wrong and that pretty much happened on my first project which was a hat in the round. I couldn't adequately tension the strands at the back, I had slack in some areas and tightness in others 🤷♀️
Your video has given me some hope that I can 'go forth and attempt' one more time with my new found techniques courtesy of yourself. Thanks again for teaching 🤗
You are very welcome Helen A.! Happy knitting.
Thank you for this superclear video! I get it now and I'm confident enough to start my first Fair Isle socks. Thanks so much!!
This is so great to hear, Karien! Please let me know how your socks turn out, I'm sure they'll be lovely!
Oldie but goldie!
Thank you, RR! 😊
This was a really useful demo, thanks for showing a comparison of all the different ways to hold the yarn :)
You are very welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting. Happy knitting.
Thanks for all you do it is very much appreciated
Liking (as always) and sharing with a friend who is new to colourwork. Thanks Suzanne!
Thanks for sharing, Cheryl, I really appreciate that!
@@SuzanneBryan she's already watched both videos!!
Thanks so much. Great tutorial, so useful. Never could get the fingering right to hold two colors. Now I totally get it. ❤Thank you!
Thank you, you explain this technique so well, I'm going to practice and practice this method.
You are very welcome.
Your videos are great to watch...I learn so much! Thank you a million times!
Glad you like them!
Hello, dear, with every video you help me so much! I've none to show me knitting so it's very bad needed tho me watching the best videos to help me - and yours are simply the best I could find: the right words, the right movings, you speak calm and clear no one feels down after watching your videos, thinking she can't do that, I'm contrast you lift uggs tho tho be prepared. THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU'RE GREAT ALL IN ALL!
Thank you for the wonderful feedback Conny. This made my day. I really try to reach all levels of knitters.
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Hello, you reach all of us! I'm from Germany as sou surely noticed and l'm not a complete beginner. I knitted pullovers, bags and caps , but long ago in the past. I was a teen. Now l needed someone to show me more than to knit and to purl and to knit 2 together.... I'm so glad I found you and your fantastic videos!
Wonderful. I also have a group on Ravelry - www.ravelry.com/groups/knitting-with-suzanne-bryan
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You would be welcome in both groups. Much more conversation going on in those groups about knitting.
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Merci, de France, pour ce partage si bien expliqué. Bien sûr, je lis la traduction, mais surtout, je regarde les "images", un peu comme les enfants !!! Je m'abonne, je vais prendre le temps de visionner toutes vos vidéos. Encore merci
MP, merci beaucoup pour vos commentaires très aimables et pour vous être abonné ! ❤️
I found this video so helpful, informative, very well communicated and demonstrated on various ways to hold the two coloured yarns when working with more than one in stranded knitting. I’m always interested in building up skill set in knitting. Thank you.
You are very welcome Indy W! Happy knitting.
Thank you for this clear video. I have only just seen the picking style of knitting in a polish friend who knits. It looks like this two handed technique will revolutionise my fairisle knitting. I even think that being left handed will help with learning a new style for my left hand. I can't wait to try this out on my next project.
You are so welcome! I find it very fast and efficient.
Thanks for such a thorough video, very clear and concise! I'm an experienced Continental knitter and have just found you while making my second fair isle Mini Mochi hat by Sandy Rosner to get some tips on how to hold the second yarn and maybe use both hands. I tried your two-handed method and WOW, corrugated ribbing is so much faster now. Thank you! Thank you!
Wonderful, Kendra, I'm so happy to hear that my video was helpful for you! ❤️
Suzanne, thank you for making this video! It is very helpful. I am new to knitting, I have crocheted for 40+ years and have always wanted to learn to knit. I started knitting about a month ago, I'm finishing a hat and a dishcloth. I am still trying to find the most comfortable way to hold the yarn while knitting, this video is great for showing different ways to do that. You make it look so easy!
Thank you, and glad this helps you! Happy knitting.
This video was very helpful. Clear and detailed. Thank you.
You are very welcome Donna Magnuson. Thank you and Happy knitting.
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thank you so very much ..this is so appreciated
Anne Forster
Anne Forster
3 years agoha
You are very welcome, Mary! 😊
This is very helpful! Thanks!
You're welcome! 🧶
Thank you so much for this video. I am new to stranded knitting and this is very helpful. My tension has been much too tight in carrying the floats and I look forward to watching your videos on how to carry the floats for better tension.
You are so welcome!🧶
Thank you, best explanation ever.
Thanks for your clear and very helpful tips and tutorial!
You're very welcome!
Thank you for such a great video.
Just working on my first stranded knitting project, a hat using J&S jumper weight shetland, a very sticky yarn. I started out holding both yarns in my left hand which I like, but so difficult to keep the yarn flowing because of its sticky nature. Your video really helped me. I'm going to try to use both hands. starting today, I thought holding the yarns in both hands would be too difficult, but you explained it so well that I can do it. Also, I appreciated the section about keeping proper tension/looseness between stitches (by working on the barrel and not the tip of the needle) to have sufficient float behind them.Thank you, thank you. Have subscribed to your channel
Yay, I love hearing this, Sandra! Thank you so much for the lovely feedback and for subscribing to my channel! ❤️
Thank you for your wonderful videos!
Glad you like them!
Practice is right! I like to put one in each hand but I reverse the knit and purl hands since purling english is so much easier for my and I can knit from the left hand all day! Your work is perfection.
So true!
I absolutely love your videos!! Thank you for sharing!!!!!!!!
Glad you like them!
Thank you so much for sharing your expertise. I taught myself color work and never thought too much about how to hold my yarn til now. I just learned enough to try a new method that is more efficient and consistent> Thanks!!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you Suzanne
You are very welcome Sharon Barker! Happy knitting.
Four years ago... Picker and thrower...
Me: wondering why I want to learn to knit, yet thrilled with your teaching style.
Thank you so much, KD! For me, knitting is a cathartic endeavor. ❤️
@@SuzanneBryan I tried two colors today and it was good. A little tangly at times a a few wonky stitches, but I'm thrilled with the result, simple as it is! And I did it two handed (yarn in each hand).
Beautiful demo. Thank you, Suzanne.
Thank you! Happy knitting.
I’m gonna give this a go thank u for the video 😊
Great Job! Wonderfully explained! Loved it!
Happy knitting.
Wonderful video. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome thank you!!!
You bet! 🧶
Great tips! I learned using both hands and had not seen both yarns in either right or left hand before. I see why I was taught to use both hands and I am a continental knitter, so I found it much easier. Thank you.
Yes, both hands is easiest for me too. Happy knitting.
Wonderful
Video!! Thanks so much!
You create such clear and helpful videos Suzanne - thank you!
Thank you mbyemini. Happy knitting.
i´m a portuguese style knitter, but i always learn something looking other's method.thank you for sharing your knowledge.kisses from Portugal !
Thanks for watching and commenting. I love Portuguese knitting. I have two very good friends who knit in that style. Happy knitting.
mariajosé andrade knitting a bag
Great video, thank you!
So smart!
😀
Thank you so much help..so appreciated
You're welcome!
I love,❣️love your instructional videos
Thank you Luis Daniel! Happy knitting.
I like the two colors you chose for your tutorial and I am now an avid fan of stranded knitting. I'm practicing techniques for baby hat donations.
Wonderful. I practiced stranded knitting on socks. I love it! So fun. Happy knitting.
I always wondered what the advantage is of using 2 circulars rather than 1 long circular. My knitting is so much better because of you. Dianne
Thanks Dianne, happy knitting.
Thank you for such great techniques. Love your videos ❤️
You are so welcome!
Recommended to me by a fellow knitter on 'Fair Isle knitting and other colour work knitting' FaceBook page. So helpful thank you. I've been knitting English style all of my life and am now practicing Continental in order to hold my colours in both hands. Can't wait to get going!
Wonderful, Liz! Best of luck, I'm sure that you'll get this soon enough. Thanks so much for watching! ❤️
Thank you very much!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching my videos! ❤️
I’m so glad I watched this video. I watched your other one about knitting on the tips of your needles and I was trying to apply that to 2-color knitting on my sock. It got so bunched up and tight and I could barely knit. I almost gave up until I saw this video and realized what I was doing wrong. Thank you from a new knitter! I barely know what I’m doing half the time!😘
I am so glad too. Happy knitting.
Thank you so much!!!
You're welcome!
excellent instruction! thanks 🙂
Thanks! Your video helped to solve the mystery of how to do this!
Wonderful! Thanks for commenting. I hope you have chosen to subscribe and please share my videos in your social media groups, like FB, Ravelry, Pinterest, etc. Thanks again and happy knitting, Suzanne.
I taught myself to throw just so that I would be able to knit stranded colourwork like this! I tried (and keep trying) to pick both colours (as I usually pick), but I just cannot keep the tension equal in both yarns that way. This "two-handed" way is what works best for me, and I'm very glad to see you favour it too, because I'm a big fan of your videos!
Thank you so much, Teutobras! Your kind feedback is very appreciated!
Awesome
Thanks, Veronica! 😊
Hi, Suzanne! Thank you so much for this video! I made a couple of pairs of fingerless gloves using stranded knitting using two circulars, and my biggest problems were a fold where each needle ended, and tangled yarn. Using the methods you've shown here, I feel confident that both these problems will be solved. I can't wait to get out my yarn and try them! Again - thank you!
Wonderful and thank you. Happy knitting.
I have been watching a lot of knitting videos lately, and they all seem to forget either lighting, sound, focus, clarity, proper speed or something other crucial, but you got it all nailed (or knitted) ;) thank you for a great video! I´m a continental knitter, but now I will definetly try throwing, it really seems logical (wonder how long it takes to train something new into muscle-memory, haha)
It will probably take a few weeks of daily practice to get the throwing down. Thanks for your comments. Happy Knitting.
I really like your tutorials. Very educational.
Thank you Vickie.
thank you so so much Suzanne, that's really helpful.
Thank you Stitchy Bee! Happy knitting.
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Thank you so much this was perfect!
Glad it helped!