I do it that way too! The person who was teaching me knitting told me I was doing it wrong, but it does the same thing. Happy to see others doing it this way too.
I’m an English style knitter. I’m not very speedy due to health issues but I enjoy the process so that’s the main thing! Just cast on your Boneyard shawl today and loving it! ❤
I purl exactly like you 😄 i tried all the other ways and I honestly gave other methods a good run, but always come back to my continental purls, and I love them. And I find this method it the most comfortable and fastest. 😊 love the way you talk, it sounds like you are reading interesting book to a toddler, gives a lot of cozines and comfort 😄
Years Ago When I Started Knitting Regularly, I Hated Ribbing. 1×1 Was The WORST!!! I Forced Myself To Knit An Entire Scarf Of 1×1 Ribbing So I Could Use Different Techniques Until I Got Comfortable With One. Turns Out, I Just Needed To Move My Finger Back And Forth. I Needed To Get Comfortable With That Movement. Now It's One Of The Fastest Things I Can Knit.
I pretty much purl English I guess, to me it doesn't feel any different than knitting!! Other than the yarn is in front. 🤷 I'm glad you show it without all the finger wrapping.... I too just pinch my yarn & have a nice even tension. I honestly don't understand why people complain about purling, it's not hard.
Love these close up videos. I've never had good luck purling as I can't get the movement of the yarn around the needle the way it needs to go. This video might help. I will give it a try.
Love to see your technique 😊 I purl "norwegian style" i guess. The yarn is behind the left needle at all time and it's not "flipped" back and fort as you do, it's the right hand needel that does most of the motion. I had to stop using the pinky for tension as it caused tension up my left arm.
I knit in"English style" but for purl stitches, I pass the yarn underneath (and not on top) and knit to the back loop, it seems to be the Swiss method!!!! It also makes very pretty ribbing
wow! I had not noticed how in the continental purl, the right hand needle goes behind the needle before the yarn wraps around it. Maybe that is why I had some trouble and went back to my English style. thanks!
Bonjour Stephen West, je fais comme vous et c'est la meilleure façon pour faire des mailles envers rapidement. Cela permet aussi de bien gérer la tension 👌 Merci pour toutes vos vidéos très intéressantes et à bientôt...🌺
I live on the continent (Italy) but surprise! my grandmother taught me sort of English-style knitting. I purl with yarn in front, holding it in my right hand.
I'm doing a baby blanket in double Moss stitch using. Keeps my tension even. That's easy to do the Pearl. I did another baby blanket doing corner to corner. Using the same method of knitting we're all I did was Pearl the whole entire time.
I'm an English-style knitter but it seems that the technical description for what I do is "flicking" rather than "throwing". This year I've been trying to add continental style knitting to my repertoire. I can now manage both knit and purl but the yarn tends to slither over my left index finger after making a stitch and my tension is still "stick and jerk" rather than slide. More practice required I guess.
I would love to learn Continental and maybe someday I will. My left hand is not very mobile. I am very right side dominant. So all of that movement with the left index finger is very difficult. Right now, my left hand basically holds the left needle and my left index finger will help to push the right needle after the yarn wrap and that’s about it. 🤷🏻♀️
Check out granny purling. Experiment with how you wrap your yarn (clockwise vs counter clockwise) and see what it does to your stitches, presentation and speed.... 😊😊😊
Often times I struggle to keep the result of purls and knits to look the same. I think it's easier on knits to keep the bump closer to the size of the needle. Purls on the other hand tend to be less uniform and I will look back in a series of purls and some of the bumps will be way lower than I would like it comparatively. This results in me having to go back and pull extra yarn from a few stitches and slows down a purl row significantly. What advice do you have for equalizing the two different techniques to make stockinette stitches look more uniform?
Sometimes I purl by wrapping the yarn around the needle the opposite way to make a slightly smaller purl stitch. This mounts the stitch backwards on the right needle so when I get back to in on the other row, I just knit or purl this stitch through the back loop.
I simply cannot get the yarn to tension with my little finger gripping the yarn against my ring finger. You explain it well but the yarn will not stay between these two fingers to tension.
I hold the yarn in my right hand, but rest the needle like holding a pencil and flick the yarn without really dropping the needle. I’ve heard it described a French hold - but not certain that’s a real thing.
I do continental knit stitch but English style purl because I find it too loose so I shall be giving your method a try now. I'd like the chance to watch you do rib all in the continental way. And what is that lovely yarn you are using please?!
More emphasis on the wrap “direction” is needed. Counter clockwise will give you the properly mounted stitch. I was wrapping clockwise because I couldn’t see exactly what you were doing. My next row of knit , the stitches were all mounted wrong but no problem I just knitted into the back loop to correct that row. Slowed the video down and now I’ve got it! I think the knitting looks better continental but I’m still faster English. But thankyou for your great videos on technique.❤
I do it that way too! The person who was teaching me knitting told me I was doing it wrong, but it does the same thing. Happy to see others doing it this way too.
🤜🏻🤛🏻👍🏻♥️
I’m learning to purl Portuguese style, and it is very easy for me and less stress on my hands.
I’m an English style knitter. I’m not very speedy due to health issues but I enjoy the process so that’s the main thing! Just cast on your Boneyard shawl today and loving it! ❤
So cool! You are the first person I have ever seen purl the way I do.
I purl exactly like you 😄 i tried all the other ways and I honestly gave other methods a good run, but always come back to my continental purls, and I love them. And I find this method it the most comfortable and fastest. 😊 love the way you talk, it sounds like you are reading interesting book to a toddler, gives a lot of cozines and comfort 😄
👍🏻😉🤭🥰
You are the best teacher. I have been purling the Norwegian way but now want to try this. Looks even more efficient😄
Ouiiiii🤜🏻🤛🏻👍🏻
Omg, that is exactly how I do it and I have never met anyone else who does it quite the same way!
I also purl (and knit) with the yarn in my left hand but I tension it differently. ❤️ your videos!
Years Ago When I Started Knitting Regularly, I Hated Ribbing. 1×1 Was The WORST!!! I Forced Myself To Knit An Entire Scarf Of 1×1 Ribbing So I Could Use Different Techniques Until I Got Comfortable With One. Turns Out, I Just Needed To Move My Finger Back And Forth. I Needed To Get Comfortable With That Movement. Now It's One Of The Fastest Things I Can Knit.
When you first learned how to knit, was this how you originally did purl stitch?
I pretty much purl English I guess, to me it doesn't feel any different than knitting!! Other than the yarn is in front. 🤷
I'm glad you show it without all the finger wrapping....
I too just pinch my yarn & have a nice even tension.
I honestly don't understand why people complain about purling, it's not hard.
Must have been reading my mind. I wondered how you manage such good control...so fast
Love these close up videos. I've never had good luck purling as I can't get the movement of the yarn around the needle the way it needs to go. This video might help. I will give it a try.
Love to see your technique 😊
I purl "norwegian style" i guess. The yarn is behind the left needle at all time and it's not "flipped" back and fort as you do, it's the right hand needel that does most of the motion. I had to stop using the pinky for tension as it caused tension up my left arm.
I either purl combination or Norwegian. Both work for me and doesn’t bother my arthritis.
Me too. Norwegian for rib, and combination if I'm doing a full purl row 😊
I knit in"English style" but for purl stitches, I pass the yarn underneath (and not on top) and knit to the back loop, it seems to be the Swiss method!!!! It also makes very pretty ribbing
wow! I had not noticed how in the continental purl, the right hand needle goes behind the needle before the yarn wraps around it. Maybe that is why I had some trouble and went back to my English style. thanks!
Bonjour Stephen West, je fais comme vous et c'est la meilleure façon pour faire des mailles envers rapidement. Cela permet aussi de bien gérer la tension 👌
Merci pour toutes vos vidéos très intéressantes et à bientôt...🌺
I live on the continent (Italy) but surprise! my grandmother taught me sort of English-style knitting. I purl with yarn in front, holding it in my right hand.
There goes my monday off household chores 😂. Of to learn hopefully better/easier way to purl because I hate purling😂
Thank you
I’ve trying to learn continental knitting and can’t seem to get
The feel right. I must try your technique. Thank you
I'm doing a baby blanket in double Moss stitch using. Keeps my tension even. That's easy to do the Pearl. I did another baby blanket doing corner to corner. Using the same method of knitting we're all I did was Pearl the whole entire time.
That was a lot of purling practice! That’s what make us proficient in the art. I think I will take on a purling project. 😊🧶
I'm an English-style knitter but it seems that the technical description for what I do is "flicking" rather than "throwing".
This year I've been trying to add continental style knitting to my repertoire. I can now manage both knit and purl but the yarn tends to slither over my left index finger after making a stitch and my tension is still "stick and jerk" rather than slide. More practice required I guess.
I usually hold my yarn in the right hand, if not I do combination knitting.
I would love to learn Continental and maybe someday I will. My left hand is not very mobile. I am very right side dominant. So all of that movement with the left index finger is very difficult. Right now, my left hand basically holds the left needle and my left index finger will help to push the right needle after the yarn wrap and that’s about it. 🤷🏻♀️
Norwegian purl works for me.
I can not purl very fast at all. I will try your method. I continental, English is very difficult for me, but I can do it.
Check out granny purling. Experiment with how you wrap your yarn (clockwise vs counter clockwise) and see what it does to your stitches, presentation and speed.... 😊😊😊
Often times I struggle to keep the result of purls and knits to look the same. I think it's easier on knits to keep the bump closer to the size of the needle. Purls on the other hand tend to be less uniform and I will look back in a series of purls and some of the bumps will be way lower than I would like it comparatively. This results in me having to go back and pull extra yarn from a few stitches and slows down a purl row significantly. What advice do you have for equalizing the two different techniques to make stockinette stitches look more uniform?
Sometimes I purl by wrapping the yarn around the needle the opposite way to make a slightly smaller purl stitch. This mounts the stitch backwards on the right needle so when I get back to in on the other row, I just knit or purl this stitch through the back loop.
I simply cannot get the yarn to tension with my little finger gripping the yarn against my ring finger. You explain it well but the yarn will not stay between these two fingers to tension.
💛
I hold the yarn in my right hand, but rest the needle like holding a pencil and flick the yarn without really dropping the needle. I’ve heard it described a French hold - but not certain that’s a real thing.
That’s how I purl too.
The simplest and the fastest way for purling is to use the Portuguese technique of knitting 😊
❤❤❤
I tried to change from right to left
This is really helpful because despite “creating” a successful continental purl for years it doesn’t work in brioche. Now to unlearn so I can relearn!
I missed the purling with the yarn in the right hand...
I do continental knit stitch but English style purl because I find it too loose so I shall be giving your method a try now. I'd like the chance to watch you do rib all in the continental way. And what is that lovely yarn you are using please?!
More emphasis on the wrap “direction” is needed. Counter clockwise will give you the properly mounted stitch. I was wrapping clockwise because I couldn’t see exactly what you were doing. My next row of knit , the stitches were all mounted wrong but no problem I just knitted into the back loop to correct that row. Slowed the video down and now I’ve got it! I think the knitting looks better continental but I’m still faster English. But thankyou for your great videos on technique.❤
Could you please show us how you do ribbing?