Knitting Help - Slow Motion Flicking
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2020
- My other flicking videos:
Flicking: • Knitting Help - Flicking
Flicking Q&A: • Knitting Help - Flicki...
You can see the slow-motion playlist here:
• Slow-Motion Techniques
The scarf I'm working on is Uknity (not my design), more info here:
www.ravelry.com/projects/very...
The needles I'm using are Knitter's Pride Ginger from an interchangeable set:
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I love that your dogs interrupted. It's nice to know it's not just my dog that lies still and quiet UNTIL I need her to be quiet. It's like I pick up a telephone call and instead of saying 'hello' I have said 'release the hounds'
Okay. If this is the video that helps me crack the code I will cry tears of joy!
I love puppy interrupted videos from home!
I love your home videos especially with dog noise 🐶❤️🐶
haha...yeah, not much I can do about that! It's just the way it has to be as long as we're in quarantine and I have to shoot my videos at home!
Love it!
Love the dog input. Especially the stealth run around the side of the house behind your back… Thanks for all your great videos and the added dog fun!
Very helpful, especially the levering action of the right needle. I never realized that was part of the technique! Thank you!
I love knitting this way. My knitting was so slow before but then I found your channel through that interview you did with knitting tips by judy and now I love it. Only thing I have to work on are dpn's
I will be making dish clothes until I master this. The slo-mo helped so much. Thank you❣️
That’s how I learned!! It helped.
My daughter has tried to show me how she knits with the flicking method. We were missing one step. How the right hand needle is moved to a position to catch the yarn. Thank you for filling in this last detail. Great in slow motion to see all and you talking it through also.
Since I knew your channel few years ago I noticed how easy you way of knitting was, so I tried it and I liked it! Now I know that it has a name too :) thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, you helped me alot
I always love to see your videos pop up. I refer people to your videos for techniques you have the best ones if I am trying to learn a stitch or techniques. I use to drop the needle and wrap that is how I learned but you taught me to be a flicker and that is what I do exclusively and it is much faster I have short fingers so I can’t tension the yarn like you do over my first finger but I have learned to make it work so I can flick and still working on flicking for colorwork the yarn in one hand right now I do 1 in each hand. I have seen lots of podcasters that flick and say they learned from your videos
Wow I didn't know I was flicking! 😊 As few do, I hold my needle in my right hand like a pencil, so my index finger loops the yarn around easily, without letting go of the needle. I just slide forward a little and loop. Thanks for your continued help and great videos!
I love your dogs and their dog noise!!!
I love making dish cloths when I learn something new in knitting Thank you for the slow motion videos
As a pit Knitter, I have always found circular needles awkward. However, this is how I knit when I use them. I’m getting faster and better as I go along. As you suggested, I made a point of dedicating a project (in my case a lace shawl) to using circular needles and by the end of it, I hope to be almost as proficient as pit knitting.I tension the yarn with my right index finger as I would with pit knitting, and I hang onto the needle and the work with my right thumb.
Since I’m a continental knitter, I taught myself how to flick with my left hand. I use it mainly when I’m mirror knitting and it makes knitting heel flaps a breeze. One thing that is important to mention is to use your opposite hand’s index finger as a support for the needle (in Staci’s case it’s her left hand’s finger). It helps to flick with more stability. When I was learning it was very hard to make it stable and flick comfortably :) Hope it helps someone!
Help me!! Please!! I'm Soooooo frustrated!!!!!
Thank you, you continue to produce the best tutorials! I, too, struggle with purls and would love to see a slo-mo version of that. Please.
Just wanted to thank you bc almost all continental knitters on uputube have the working yarn in their left hand. For some reason having it in my right makes more sense to me, maybe bc its my dominant hand? Is there a term for the way you knit like how we do? Thanks much
I was wondering why I hadn't seen your videos come up in my feed for awhile so I searched and realized I wasn't subscribed. That's fixed now. I am a continental knitter, but I did learn the throwing method.. It's so entertaining to get a rise out of my elderly Norwegian mother by doing things the 'wrong' way or the hard way.... I really do love my mom. She thinks I'm hopeless...a lost cause... 😌
This explains a lot! I understand what flicking is now. I taught myself to knit continental so I would knit faster and have more control of my stitches on both needles. I actually like continental knitting better but it is nice to know what the terminology is describing. Thanks for all your help!
DOGS RULE!
the dog just makes everything you do just that much more special !
Excellent demonstration. I still can’t for the life of me do it. I am an English style knitter although I learned in Spain from a Spanish knitter!
This is how I taught myself how to knit. It's the only way that feels natural to me!
I have been knitting about a year now and learned everything by watching you and one other TH-camr. I love, love, love your videos. But as a dog mom myself, I LOL'd at the assistance you got during this one. As an attorney, having hearings from home with large, active, and sometimes vocal dogs...yeesh. It was nice to see I am not alone. :) Dogs will not be ignored! Love them!
Yup. I "accidentally" learned how to flick while doing fair isle. I'm a continental knitter but had to find an efficient way to work on 2 strands of working yarn. I still have a lot to practice but definitely, already know how to flick! Thank you for your videos!
Whereas I've been trying to learn the continental style to do fair isle! My natural style is half way in between throwing and flicking, I hold the right needle under my arm and the heel of the right hand remains in contact with the needle but the rest of the hand does move. The left hand is probably more involved in moving the left needle than the style shown here - I impale stitches as I knit, rather than stabbing them.
As usual your videos are so helpful and easy to follow. Thanks for sharing. I tried this and although i want to convert back to throwing out of frustration, i will persevere. I find the purl stitch more challenging. If you ever have the time, a slow-mo demo on how you mastered the flicking would be great.
Very interesting video. It’s good to see that you’re not moving your finger as much as I’d previously thought. I was concerned about the joint on your finger. As a continental knitter my left index finger harder moves at all when doing the knit stitch and just a little when I purl. It’s more my hand. I’ve seen other continental knitters move there finger a lot. I use English in my right hand when doing stranded color work as I originally learned English. This video gave a clearer picture of flicking. Thanks for sharing with us!
Thank you Stacie! The slow motion made all the difference!
The dog noise is everything. Thanks for not refilming!
It absolutely helps. You do it so fast I called it the cobra strike. I may still.
The motion of the left hand is like Irish cottage knitting. Levering that right needle towards your index finger answered how in the world you finger streached so far.
Thanks ,stay safe.
I am a lefty, but I knit the same as a person who is right handed in English Style. When I learned how to knit I had already been crocheting for years. The yarn was in my right hand and the hook in my left. I picked up the needles and it felt as natural as can be. And I just started to ‘flick’ from the beginning. It is in mho much faster and smoother that dropping the needle after each stitch to wrap the yarn. Great video. Hope it helps those who wish to ‘flick’.
I am not sure if I tip my right needle as you pointed out, I will check my self tomorrow when I begin my knitting for the day. Thanks for the video- loved the dogs being dogs.lol
I am a diehard continental knitter but want to expand to color work including double knitting and brioche. Many instructors put one strand in each hand and so my quest to figure this out. It is the hardest thing ever! Thanks for your video. Will keep trying!!
Love your videos Staci! You are always my go to!
I love your tutorials!! They have helped me Knit so much faster!! Thank you thank you thank you!!
I have learned to do this from your other videos and I love this method.
Thank you! Switching to this reduced my wrist twist when knitting continental, achieving a longer knit time, less arthritis discomfort. Took a while to change over, clumsy at first, like a new knitter. Glad I persisted.
Thank you so much for slowing it down. I've often wondered how you do that because it always looks so smooth and quick when you are knitting. Btw, loved your dog's barking in the background. Mine were asleep and when they heard your dog's they both jumped up, looked around, ran to the window and started whining. They knew they heard a dog but couldn't figure out where it was coming from. It was funny watching them. Lol
My mum taught me to knit this way when I was little and it was only a couple of years ago that I found out there were other styles!
Same 🙈
Could you please show us how to flick purls? I have mastered knitting but have trouble with purling.
That is a great idea...I can add that to my next video list!
That would be great!
@@verypinkknits Yes please!
I was just whinging to my knitting friend last night about how my purl flick game is nonexistent and slows down my knitting!
@@verypinkknits thank you! I was going to ask the same thing!
Oh, this is so great... your videos are so helpful, but the way you knit is so graceful and seamless, that as a beginner, it’s been difficult to catch onto what exactly was going on when you did this. I’m going to practice this right away! Thank you once again!
I am a beginner and really appreciate this video although I'm extremely frustrated because my yarn slips off my right index finger and I can't get the tension right. I just keep going back to throwing which is the way I was taught but it's so time consuming. Did you master flicking?
Your videos have taught me I’m a continental knitter! Eager to try flicking, if I could just figure out the tension of yarn from right hand
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I can finally flick! Not as fast as you but I am determined to make a ten stitch blanket using only the flicking method. :)
fantastic, I've been trying this but not quite got it so I'll have another go now
Excellent!
I love that the dogs get in on the videos. us home knitters get this all the time ;) I knit continental but am actually enjoying knitting Portuguese style at moment .... with my homemade pin (safety pin and some jewellery wire made into a hook) as I don't like the yarn around my neck
Thank you, I so hope to become a flicker!
Great video, thanks!
Your slo-mo videos look like knitting on the International Space Station. See if you can make a stitch marker float by. Thanks! I've always been a Continental knitter as my grandma taught me and when I watch "throwers" knit I think of how klunky and inefficient it seems. This flicking looks as smooth as the Contintntal way.
I’ve “thrown” my yarn for over 50 years. It’s relaxing and efficient and I make beautiful garments. Klunky would never describe how I knit.
Oh that is absolutely hilarious, having a stitch marker float by 😁
I am a flicker thanks to you! I love flicking when I knit, thanks for teaching me. Now how about the purl, I am really struggling with flicking on the purl. Thanks for ALL your help.
I love your videos and have even begun using KnitCompanion, thanks to you. It's not easy to learn something new when you're 69 and have been knitting since you were 3, LOL. Please may I ask what pattern the scarf of the manikin is knitted from? Many thanks, Chris,
Hey Staci, I just found your channel at the start of March (since the lockdown here started) with so much time on my hands I decided to knit again. First learned it from my great grandmother about 20 years ago, who was a combination knitter, so I learned it that way. But then I realized soon I can't really make some stich combos work, or at least haven't figured out how to adapt it, so I recently "learned" continental knitting. As I saw in another comment, purling is really slow, knit stiches are a breeze. I'm not sure if I should switch to english style, and then practice flicking. Purling does look much easier with that. I love your videos, I learned a lot I haven't really known before! Now I'm saving up for an interchangeable set, I really like to work with KnitPro needles (I'm living in the UK) so I'm gonna get one of those, and dive into making more than just scarves and flat pieces :)
have you watched her video on purling the Portuguese style it is actually so much easier and I am a beginner and I found it so much better than Continental purling.
Thank you
As a Continental knitter, I am pretty speedy with knit stitch. However, it is much slower when I purl, (like on your slo-mo video) and I want to speed that up. I learned to crochet about 50 years ago, so I’m accustomed to holding the yarn in my left hand. I am self taught from you tube videos (yours, thank you) and lots of practice on dish cloths. I’m working on a summer tee right now that is mainly knit, so it’s not a big problem, just wanting to perfect my stitches.
I normally knit continental but when doing color work would it work to do both , one in each hand?
Thank you for explaining it to me like i am a 2 year old. I need that sometimes. LOL!!!!
I left a comment on one of your other flicking videos. Wanting to change my style after over 60 years. I don't drop my right needle when I throw. I am still holding both needles and moving them to the yarn and pushing the tip of the right needle with my left index finger. It isn't as fast as this but I am coming to the conclusion that it is as fast as I am going to get and keep my tension correct. My arthritis is pretty bad in my hands so holding the yarn over my raised index finger hurts. Any thoughts? I don't know. Maybe the dream of becoming a faster knitter is crazy. I enjoy the process and really never the project. Thank you so much for your videos.
Hi Staci. I recently bought a set of Chiaogo interchangeable. What 16” set would you recommend? Will be getting into making socks as well. You really are an inspiration.
As a continental knitter I just need a right-hand option for color knitting. Would you please add that to your purl flicking video or make a separate one. Thank you
Have you noticed whether switching between flicking and throwing changes your gauge?
In case this is helpful for someone else: it took me a while to realize that my right index finger wants to hold the needle after wrapping the yarn. I have to concentrate on keeping it out to tension the yarn. #practice
THANK YOU for making this video! Moving the focus from the fingers to the needle is key! I'm definitely going to practice this technique. And it's also so nice knowing that I'm not the only one taking my hand off the right needle to get the yarn around...and I'm not just a sloppy knitter :-)
The yarn always falls off my index finger even if I wrap the yarn around my pinky 3 or 4 times to maintain the tension. As soon as I make the motion to wrap the yarn around the needle and begin to pull it through it goes slack and falls off my finger.
i've been watching you knit for years, and couldn't figure out why you seemed to make a 'bigger' motion as you flicked, compared to my knitting. I just realized why. My yarn comes from front to back over my right index finger, then under my middle finger for tensioning, rather than from back over the top. I flick it over it a similar but 'smaller' motion. I just tried to run the yarn over the the back to front to match you, and it's like I can't even make my finger do that.
I knit using the English style so I might use this technique to learn how to do continental cause I just can't make the yarn stay put on the finger so I'm gonna have to give it some more practice. Also it's weird because I flick when I purl but when I knit, I just grab the yarn and move my entire hand to wrap it around the needle. I am fast at doing it and it's comfortable for me but I'd like to learn other styles too.
how do you keep the year on your right hand so tight????
Like you, I do this and didn't even know it had a name! that's funny.
Merci ! Very interesting ! Trying flicking is on my to do list and I try to get it very clear before, this video was indeed of great interest. I’m a crocheter so continental is my normal way, and I do some Portuguese sometimes just to change the movement style, the muscles used because in my mind it might prevent further injuries, you know with repetitive movements and so.
Suggestion : including some purl stitches in the slow motion flicking video would be awesome ! But maybe it exists somewhere in your huge list !
Slow motion flicking purling is coming very soon!
Is the scarf on the manikin the same one that you’re working on in the video?
I’m trying to learn flicking while being a combination knitter. Grrr lol I can’t get it. I’m trying my best. As you know, being a combination knitter, everything worked so differently than traditional knitting.
Hi how are you ? I love yours videos . I am doing a blouse and I don’t know what mean “ work all the way cross . This is after w&t
Can you explain to me ? Thank you . ❤
Staci, love your tutorials. Have a question for you. A shawl 9m attempting calls for a PICOT BIND OFF but all I could find was your tutorials on picot edging where you turn the work and stitch it leaving the edge doubled over to create the pattern. I looked at a couple of other videos but they looked like a hot mess. I love the way you make complicated simple.
Stay healthy and safe.... thank you, you are appreciated.
If your pattern calls for a picot bind off, there should be instructions IN THE PATTERN for how to do that! There is no standard "picot bind off"...it really could mean anything. I recommend contacting the pattern designer for clarification. Good designers support their patterns, and get back to you quickly with answers to your questions.
VeryPink Knits thank you. I just substituted your Icelandic Bind off. After all the work involved in making the shawl I wasn’t gonna chance screwing it up , especially since I’m sure I knitted the damn thing at least 3 times with tinking and frogging.. I trust your stuff. And you speak and show so I can understand. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. STAY SAFE ....
These videos have been so helpful! I'm still trying to convert to flicking. Could you make a video on how to do this while ribbing?
That is a great idea, thank you!
@@verypinkknits Thank you!! I look forward to it :-)
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Great tutorial, I find with my small hands throwing is better, I cannot reach the needle tip with flicking
Can you film this in purling? I have the knitting down thanks to your videos, but I still struggle with purling.
Knit and purl a band for example.
I was flicking this whole time and had no clue. Just thought I was doing English.
But how is yarn tensioned on other fingers?
Yes - thanks...the way you hold tension is different for everyone, you have to find what works for you. But I show how I do it in my other flicking videos.
You may not see this, but I have rheumatoid arthritis and the only way I can knit is by throwing with my left hand. Is there a term for this? As you may imagine, I have a lot of trouble making gauge which is why I only knit hats, scarves, and shawls.
I see all comments. :) I don't know if there is a name for throwing with your left hand, but we all find the way that feels best for us. You may need to use a different needle size than the pattern calls for, but you should be able to get gauge.
Annieknitter recommended your Chanel for beginner sock knitters. I’ve scrolled through to year 6 of tutorials & have lost the will to live. Please could you give me the link to your sock tutorial for beginners. Thank you from the UK.
You can find a list of my sock tutorials here, organized by skill level, yarn weight, etc:
verypink.com/2020/01/10/find-your-sock-tutorial/
I have been a flicker!
I can flick when I knit, but have a hard time doing so when I purl.
Is that your dog I hear in the background pacing back and forth? 😂😜 My oldest cat does that and it drives me crazy. And of course he would be the one that is the worst patient when trying to trim his nails.
Yes, shooting at home during quarantine means that there are dogs in the house, doing their own thing!
@@verypinkknits have you seen the blooper videos on TH-cam of newscasters filming from home and their cats and dogs constantly interrupting them? It's quite funny
Wrp1. How to do please.
Huh so it turns out I’m a flicker and didn’t know it!
That’s how my mother taught me to do it.
Nu am nimic de zis,ba chiar pot învăța,dar singura mea problema e că trebuie tradus in limba romana.
There is no pattern for the scarf ur working
Yes, the pattern is available on Ravelry: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/uknity
I am not coordinated enough to flick 🤦♀️. I would like to know what can be done with Sashay yarn besides the ruffled scarf and with Sensations Baja yarn.
Hold the yarn with your left index finger that way you knit faster
That is called Continental knitting, and it is a different style of knitting...not all people knit the same way.