This tutorial has been most helpful for me. I loom knit & crochet. However, I've come to realize that traditional knitting is the REAL BOSS. So I just had to learn. Thank you kind sir. ❤
This guy actually is making it harder than it has to be and he's an English style knitter. If you're comfortable holding your yarn in your right hand as a crocheter because you are equally ambidextrous with both hands able to do the same things then go for it baby, you're one in a million... but continental style is for crocheters of crocheted sense 1970, I know a thing or three and I have either put together or figure it out some way of knitting that I have not identified or seen a video for. I'm not so naive or prideful to say that I invented it but I haven't seen a video on it I've put two portions of some videos and a rare obscure video or two with good helpful wisdom in bits and pieces together and I've been knitting like crazy for the past couple of weeks! After watching gazillions of foreign language videos with very extremely good demonstrators of the craft - both crochet and knitting - AND Tunisian - I just knew I could knit I had Tried several times and I learned castons every couple of years but every time I went back to learn how to cast on because I had forgotten how It seemed I learned a different kind of cast on and I opened a different instruction booklet on how to hold yarn and I wasn't paying the attention to different styles of knitting because I didn't know their word different styles of knitting. Did you know there are dozens of ways of casting on; there are dozens ways of ways to hold your yarn to knit, besides Continental and English, but there is also Western knitting and there is Eastern knitting. It has to do with how you do your stitches in where you do your stitches based upon the orientation of the legs of the loop and which one is the forward most leg which it is presented for the stitch you need to do plague forward needs to be on the knitting side for you to pick up the stitch to knit it and standard knit stitch doing stockinette. It is also left leg forward for purling because you're doing it on the front side, because you flip your work when you're done with your row right? Well if I watched a video on combination knitting and the way the lady explained it was making me dyslexic so I just take bits and pieces from her video and put it together with other bits and pieces of other videos and Now I pearl on the front side of my needles Sticking my needle into the right side of the loop, as you do, but i pull that yarn right straight into the loop very directly I don't have to do all that squirment around and lose my tension and all of that is easy is doing the knit stitch! I had heard in one video that doing the English purl is easier than the Continental purl, but since I am so happy with the way I do my purl, I have forgotten what that way is, plus I don't even want to switch my yarn to another hand to stop and start. That's why I don't do English knitting because my brain refuses to do a stop start motion with every stitch. There is a method called flicking which you should look up a video for If you're okay with using your right hand for yarn holding , tension and placement, or look up lever knitting on Carrie Geekcraft channel. I have digressed again, sorry... Back to the way I knit and purl, Since I purled away I do it changes the orientation the loop legs so that the left leg is forward on my finished pearl row and that means that the right leg is forward on the back of my work which is the knit side So I just knit on the back behind my needles in the exact way I've done on the purl. The motions aren't easy and small both hand split the work and it doesn't make my arm move from its position to throw the yarn. You can K and P to your heart's content, lickety split, and get a lot of work done - and fast! I don't know squat about knitting a cardigan but I can knit squares and rectangles ( and triangles, I'm sure ) and sew them together. I don't have a pair of circular knitting needles with a long enough cable to fit around my rotundness. I can do it on my 29 inch but I really have to cram the stitches in and I'm afraid that the cable might snap off, as it is plastic, under the weight of all that yarn once I get going and get about halfway through. Contact me back and we can talk some more if you want to learn this way I can be very concise with you and quit making up rules of how to hold your hands like this guys doing. I think I already told you this guy's making it more difficult than it has to be. I haven't even watched much of the video but he started out bad with me so None of his advice would help me it would have frustrated me and I would have turned to a different channel. I find it very extremely useful to watch These Turkish ladies demonstrate how to do these wonderful knitting patterns with no words you just keep your eyes peeled in your brain has nothing else to figure out except for what you're seeing and if you can watch something and do the same thing yeah I think you're better off and trying to figure out somebody's words because not everybody is made to be a teacher. And most everybody on TH-cam is not objective enough to tell a new beginner what they basically need to know before they start giving them a bunch of individualistic and subjective ways to do it as if their way is the only way and the best way. Remember I did tell you I have watched a gazillion videos over the last five or ten years and as soon as I got circular knitting needles in my hands I went to town. Upon the advice of the sweet lady on Expression Fiber Arts, who tutors and sells yarn also, during a how to knit faster video, recommended that If we're going to learn and we want to do it faster both are reasons to get the circular needles because their smaller they fit in your hand really they're easy to work with because when your work begins to build up on the end of your sticks it gets a bit burdened some sometimes on your project. True. When I wind myself off my circular knitting needles I went to town on because I wanted to learn tension in knitting, I wasn't bad but I am a perfectionist and there were times that I had to reign in my motions because they were getting a little bit too wild and widespread as I got faster I got sloppier. I have a pair of sz 6 or 4.25, 14", and I have a pair of sz 7 or 4.5mm, 10". I used the long size six first and was gonna do a baby sweater or blanket or something and cast on the whole stick full post stitches and it was very unwieldy I did not get better at my tension until I switch to the shorter needles, but the circumstance didn't have anything to do with it, in case you were wondering. It's the length of the stick. So now I know why that sweet and wise lady on expression fiber arts suggested the circular needles because you can even knit flat on circular needles, they are way more comfortable and fitting your hand easier and because they have that little crook on the end of 'em.. It's a nice place for you to hang your pinky finger, for less hand stress that way. Have you ever checked out Portuguese knitting - it's like they're from another planet....buuut then I remember seeing a historical video of some speed knitters, knitting lace, who could do something like 200 stitches per minute! What they were British but not necessarily English knitters, somewhere Irish and Scottish but they are doing what I have seen and a Portuguese knitting video. They (non-lever knitters) string the yarn around their neck, After they have loaded their sticks with the Cast on Stitches, Most have their hands down in their lap to do their work and their thumbs move the yarn to the position it needs to be to do whatever stitch you're doing. Of course they need their thumbs to move the needles but when it comes time to feed the yarn to the stitching They just whip their thumb over there and flick it over and go to town. So easy. After I make this sweater I am going to learn that way of knitting. Get back to me and I will look up some recommendations for what your interested in, and send you the link to click on it'll take you right there. I have thousands and thousands of great videos saved in my tablet library.
You got a like and subscribe because you were the ONLY video to tell me that I was adding stitches on!!!! I was highly confused as to why it kept getting longer and longer!! Thank you so much!
I'm a knitter but frequently look for ideas it's great to come across your tutorial no waffle straight to the point and great to see someone using straight needles I do not get on with the circular needles and I've tried for many years
I have watched other videos that doesn't play all this. I know there are different methods to starting this. watch a variety of videos to find one that better suits you.
Okay so this is helping me more than any other video has but I'm confused. I finished my first row and turned it around and now my tail is at the very front (as in, it looks like the first stitch)! How do you avoid that!
Try pulling the working yarn a bit tighter on the first and last stitch than you do for the others, I had that a lot and see that with people starting out and hopefully that will help fix it for you! 😊
I struggle with my cast ons and stitches being way to tight. Then it makes it hard to knit. I Get so frustrated ! Any tips for getting/ keeping my tension loose enough to make it easier to knit?
I would recommend not pulling so tight on the last step. You want for the stitches to be loose enough to easily move on the needle but not so loose that they just fall off
The tail needs to be pretty long because you use a bit of that in each stitch so it getting shorter definitely doesn’t mean you are doing anything wrong 👍🏻
Personally, I found most of it quite clear--in my opinion, his demonstration of the long tail cast on over-complicated and would recommend watching other beginner videos. Otherwise the video was fine for me.
@@sharoncombs58I totally agree! I’m new at knitting and have been watching a lot of tutorials to compare the different styles of each person. I found his tutorial crisp and uniformly understandable. The only thing it lacked was all the unneeded mumbo jumbo that is in between steps that confuses people. So thank you for making it very clear and easy to learn. 5 stars for this video!
You don't have to let go of all of the yarn Each Tme and then load your finger and thumb back up again repeatedly. And if you keep the yarn way back there on the middle of a stick it makes it harder for you to get a good even cast on. Where there you are doing this way or the easy thumb or finger method.. which by the way if you knit with steady tension from a stick and not a cable, can look like one of those real pretty twisted and flattened link gold chains. Of almost got steady tension down pat. I just learned to knit couple weeks ago. And never watched any "how to" videos til after i learnt and got bored knitting and purling, I want to make a sweater, so I need to learn the increases or decreases for a raglan sleeve. I just watched all these ladies knitting with no words or a foreign language that I just turn down, Then I went to the store and bought mid sized circulars with a 29" cable, and my little heart out I figured I could just knit a sweater body big enough and I would never have to deal with purls. That's when I was watching a video and speaking in English said something about a Russian purl, So I watched closer and I think that's the way I do it Now.
Why that cast on? There are easier castons? Are you going to tell us that there are about a million different castons because I have found out and my journey to knit that there are about as many castons as there are ways to knit and nobody tells us what kind of knitting they will be doing which made it awfully hard for me to ever learn because every time I popped into a video somebody was holding the yarn or the sticks and some different way telling us that's the way to do it. If I sound a little upset it's because I am my learning to knit was very frustrating So I just started watching foreign ladies knit and most of them don't even talk on their videos or I just turn down their foreign language so I didn't have to listen to it because many of them sound very Bossy and Intense, and I don't need the stress. I can do all kinds of complicated stitches..I don't know the names of any of them and I don't know what type of cast on I'm doing. I just do what they do and I'm fine with it - which makes me very versatile. I'm very "monkey see -> monkey do". I've watched gazillions of these videos from Russian, Arabic, Chinese, South American Spanish/Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, and mostly Turkish women and I found one way of doing a purl that is so easy. Believe me, I searched around to find the easiest way - here's where I should take a beat and tell ya that not knowing how to do something never stopped me from jumping in sink-or-swim, determined to make it to the other shore - because I was having trouble purling when I tried to wean myself from the circular knitting needles with the cable, to knitting flat. I was going to have to turn my work because I found out that garter stitch takes up twice the yarn that knitting one side and purling the other does. I rarely pay over one cent per yard for my yarn, that's how tight-fisted I am!. A couple of cents' worth of cheap fabric softener can make even red heart feel as luxurious as a nice washable wool blend....but, I digress... I saw Roxanne Richardson's reverse knitting video and I saw some Russian lady do a very direct straight no nonsense purl. So that's the way I do it. I had also watched somebody's video on combination knitting and they helped me understand that there is Continental in English as well as Western and Eastern as pertains to the orientation of which leg of the loop is forward or not to do this stitch that is necessary. In her videos she only explained that If you do a certain stitch this way when you come back on the opposite side you have to Perhaps do you stitch a different way and from the orientation of which leg is forward and the way that you did the other stitch when you were on the other side which, trying to figure that out made me feel like I may be permanently dyslexic if I ever got to the end of it, to me. Then I saw a lady who knitted on the back side of her needles and then I put two and two together and that's the way I knit now. I realized that doing this knitting automatically switches from Western to Eastern and back again with each row, no matter which side... no more dyslexia trying to figure out what that lady was talking about. It's automatic.
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This tutorial has been most helpful for me. I loom knit & crochet. However, I've come to realize that traditional knitting is the REAL BOSS. So I just had to learn. Thank you kind sir. ❤
Thank you, I’m glad it was helpful!
This guy actually is making it harder than it has to be and he's an English style knitter. If you're comfortable holding your yarn in your right hand as a crocheter because you are equally ambidextrous with both hands able to do the same things then go for it baby, you're one in a million... but continental style is for crocheters of crocheted sense 1970, I know a thing or three and I have either put together or figure it out some way of knitting that I have not identified or seen a video for. I'm not so naive or prideful to say that I invented it but I haven't seen a video on it I've put two portions of some videos and a rare obscure video or two with good helpful wisdom in bits and pieces together and I've been knitting like crazy for the past couple of weeks!
After watching gazillions of foreign language videos with very extremely good demonstrators of the craft - both crochet and knitting - AND Tunisian - I just knew I could knit I had Tried several times and I learned castons every couple of years but every time I went back to learn how to cast on because I had forgotten how It seemed I learned a different kind of cast on and I opened a different instruction booklet on how to hold yarn and I wasn't paying the attention to different styles of knitting because I didn't know their word different styles of knitting.
Did you know there are dozens of ways of casting on; there are dozens ways of ways to hold your yarn to knit, besides Continental and English, but there is also Western knitting and there is Eastern knitting. It has to do with how you do your stitches in where you do your stitches based upon the orientation of the legs of the loop and which one is the forward most leg which it is presented for the stitch you need to do plague forward needs to be on the knitting side for you to pick up the stitch to knit it and standard knit stitch doing stockinette. It is also left leg forward for purling because you're doing it on the front side, because you flip your work when you're done with your row right? Well if I watched a video on combination knitting and the way the lady explained it was making me dyslexic so I just take bits and pieces from her video and put it together with other bits and pieces of other videos and Now I pearl on the front side of my needles Sticking my needle into the right side of the loop, as you do, but i pull that yarn right straight into the loop very directly I don't have to do all that squirment around and lose my tension and all of that is easy is doing the knit stitch! I had heard in one video that doing the English purl is easier than the Continental purl, but since I am so happy with the way I do my purl, I have forgotten what that way is, plus I don't even want to switch my yarn to another hand to stop and start. That's why I don't do English knitting because my brain refuses to do a stop start motion with every stitch. There is a method called flicking which you should look up a video for If you're okay with using your right hand for yarn holding , tension and placement, or look up lever knitting on Carrie Geekcraft channel. I have digressed again, sorry... Back to the way I knit and purl, Since I purled away I do it changes the orientation the loop legs so that the left leg is forward on my finished pearl row and that means that the right leg is forward on the back of my work which is the knit side So I just knit on the back behind my needles in the exact way I've done on the purl. The motions aren't easy and small both hand split the work and it doesn't make my arm move from its position to throw the yarn. You can K and P to your heart's content, lickety split, and get a lot of work done - and fast!
I don't know squat about knitting a cardigan but I can knit squares and rectangles ( and triangles, I'm sure ) and sew them together. I don't have a pair of circular knitting needles with a long enough cable to fit around my rotundness. I can do it on my 29 inch but I really have to cram the stitches in and I'm afraid that the cable might snap off, as it is plastic, under the weight of all that yarn once I get going and get about halfway through.
Contact me back and we can talk some more if you want to learn this way I can be very concise with you and quit making up rules of how to hold your hands like this guys doing. I think I already told you this guy's making it more difficult than it has to be. I haven't even watched much of the video but he started out bad with me so None of his advice would help me it would have frustrated me and I would have turned to a different channel. I find it very extremely useful to watch These Turkish ladies demonstrate how to do these wonderful knitting patterns with no words you just keep your eyes peeled in your brain has nothing else to figure out except for what you're seeing and if you can watch something and do the same thing yeah I think you're better off and trying to figure out somebody's words because not everybody is made to be a teacher. And most everybody on TH-cam is not objective enough to tell a new beginner what they basically need to know before they start giving them a bunch of individualistic and subjective ways to do it as if their way is the only way and the best way. Remember I did tell you I have watched a gazillion videos over the last five or ten years and as soon as I got circular knitting needles in my hands I went to town. Upon the advice of the sweet lady on Expression Fiber Arts, who tutors and sells yarn also, during a how to knit faster video, recommended that If we're going to learn and we want to do it faster both are reasons to get the circular needles because their smaller they fit in your hand really they're easy to work with because when your work begins to build up on the end of your sticks it gets a bit burdened some sometimes on your project. True. When I wind myself off my circular knitting needles I went to town on because I wanted to learn tension in knitting, I wasn't bad but I am a perfectionist and there were times that I had to reign in my motions because they were getting a little bit too wild and widespread as I got faster I got sloppier. I have a pair of sz 6 or 4.25, 14", and I have a pair of sz 7 or 4.5mm, 10". I used the long size six first and was gonna do a baby sweater or blanket or something and cast on the whole stick full post stitches and it was very unwieldy I did not get better at my tension until I switch to the shorter needles, but the circumstance didn't have anything to do with it, in case you were wondering. It's the length of the stick. So now I know why that sweet and wise lady on expression fiber arts suggested the circular needles because you can even knit flat on circular needles, they are way more comfortable and fitting your hand easier and because they have that little crook on the end of 'em.. It's a nice place for you to hang your pinky finger, for less hand stress that way.
Have you ever checked out Portuguese knitting - it's like they're from another planet....buuut then I remember seeing a historical video of some speed knitters, knitting lace, who could do something like 200 stitches per minute! What they were British but not necessarily English knitters, somewhere Irish and Scottish but they are doing what I have seen and a Portuguese knitting video. They (non-lever knitters) string the yarn around their neck, After they have loaded their sticks with the Cast on Stitches, Most have their hands down in their lap to do their work and their thumbs move the yarn to the position it needs to be to do whatever stitch you're doing. Of course they need their thumbs to move the needles but when it comes time to feed the yarn to the stitching They just whip their thumb over there and flick it over and go to town. So easy. After I make this sweater I am going to learn that way of knitting. Get back to me and I will look up some recommendations for what your interested in, and send you the link to click on it'll take you right there. I have thousands and thousands of great videos saved in my tablet library.
@@christopherkuhne3554it’s too hard I can’t get the second part
Best and easiest long tail cast on instructions! Made me feel successful as a first time knitter! Thank you Thank you Thank you!
AWESOME Tutorial!!! I now have confidence to give this a try. Thank you🤗🤗🤗
such a great tutorial! the instructions were so clear and easy to follow.as a crocheter, this was a great transition video!
Thanks for this. I am a beginner knitter and this was explained easily. Nice music in the background too.
Wow l have learnt how to knit 👌👌
Thank you😊 This was a very helpful video. It was a great experience and it made it easy to my daughter to begin to knit
I appreciate how you teach, you explain everything to me that is slow to learn
Thank you
Your tutorial made it click!!!!! Thank you!!
You got a like and subscribe because you were the ONLY video to tell me that I was adding stitches on!!!! I was highly confused as to why it kept getting longer and longer!! Thank you so much!
I'm a knitter but frequently look for ideas it's great to come across your tutorial no waffle straight to the point and great to see someone using straight needles I do not get on with the circular needles and I've tried for many years
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤I really like this idea
This helped me so much cause I tryed other videos butvthey were to complecated thank you😊😊
I have watched other videos that doesn't play all this. I know there are different methods to starting this. watch a variety of videos to find one that better suits you.
I got the first stitch and literally said “no shot” out loud.
Thank you for this video ! I managed to knit the square !!
Is there a video to demonstrats decease and increase stitches?
I just realised I have the exact same knitting needles.
Okay so this is helping me more than any other video has but I'm confused. I finished my first row and turned it around and now my tail is at the very front (as in, it looks like the first stitch)! How do you avoid that!
OMG
I got it!!!
Now I just need to avoid the needles sliding off my hands and loosing the stitches…. Practice, practice, practice!!!
Thank you!!!
starting another row just isnt working for me, the yarn keeps knotting together
Hello, thank you for the video, I have a problem with last stitch in the first raw, it’s always loose at the end … 😢
Try pulling the working yarn a bit tighter on the first and last stitch than you do for the others, I had that a lot and see that with people starting out and hopefully that will help fix it for you! 😊
I struggle with my cast ons and stitches being way to tight. Then it makes it hard to knit.
I Get so frustrated ! Any tips for getting/ keeping my tension loose enough to make it easier to knit?
I would recommend not pulling so tight on the last step. You want for the stitches to be loose enough to easily move on the needle but not so loose that they just fall off
@@christopherkuhne3554 thank you.
why is my tail getting too short?
The tail needs to be pretty long because you use a bit of that in each stitch so it getting shorter definitely doesn’t mean you are doing anything wrong 👍🏻
@@christopherkuhne3554 thank you
is there a name for this cast on?
This is called the long tail cast on :)
Most confusing video I’ve ever watched 😂 but thanks anyway.
Personally, I found most of it quite clear--in my opinion, his demonstration of the long tail cast on over-complicated and would recommend watching other beginner videos. Otherwise the video was fine for me.
@@sharoncombs58I totally agree! I’m new at knitting and have been watching a lot of tutorials to compare the different styles of each person. I found his tutorial crisp and uniformly understandable. The only thing it lacked was all the unneeded mumbo jumbo that is in between steps that confuses people. So thank you for making it very clear and easy to learn. 5 stars for this video!
This was way too slow for me. Good luck to all of you learning!
You don't have to let go of all of the yarn Each Tme and then load your finger and thumb back up again repeatedly. And if you keep the yarn way back there on the middle of a stick it makes it harder for you to get a good even cast on. Where there you are doing this way or the easy thumb or finger method.. which by the way if you knit with steady tension from a stick and not a cable, can look like one of those real pretty twisted and flattened link gold chains. Of almost got steady tension down pat. I just learned to knit couple weeks ago. And never watched any "how to" videos til after i learnt and got bored knitting and purling, I want to make a sweater, so I need to learn the increases or decreases for a raglan sleeve. I just watched all these ladies knitting with no words or a foreign language that I just turn down, Then I went to the store and bought mid sized circulars with a 29" cable, and my little heart out I figured I could just knit a sweater body big enough and I would never have to deal with purls. That's when I was watching a video and speaking in English said something about a Russian purl, So I watched closer and I think that's the way I do it Now.
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Why that cast on? There are easier castons? Are you going to tell us that there are about a million different castons because I have found out and my journey to knit that there are about as many castons as there are ways to knit and nobody tells us what kind of knitting they will be doing which made it awfully hard for me to ever learn because every time I popped into a video somebody was holding the yarn or the sticks and some different way telling us that's the way to do it. If I sound a little upset it's because I am my learning to knit was very frustrating So I just started watching foreign ladies knit and most of them don't even talk on their videos or I just turn down their foreign language so I didn't have to listen to it because many of them sound very Bossy and Intense, and I don't need the stress.
I can do all kinds of complicated stitches..I don't know the names of any of them and I don't know what type of cast on I'm doing. I just do what they do and I'm fine with it - which makes me very versatile. I'm very "monkey see -> monkey do".
I've watched gazillions of these videos from Russian, Arabic, Chinese, South American Spanish/Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, and mostly Turkish women and I found one way of doing a purl that is so easy. Believe me, I searched around to find the easiest way - here's where I should take a beat and tell ya that not knowing how to do something never stopped me from jumping in sink-or-swim, determined to make it to the other shore - because I was having trouble purling when I tried to wean myself from the circular knitting needles with the cable, to knitting flat. I was going to have to turn my work because I found out that garter stitch takes up twice the yarn that knitting one side and purling the other does. I rarely pay over one cent per yard for my yarn, that's how tight-fisted I am!. A couple of cents' worth of cheap fabric softener can make even red heart feel as luxurious as a nice washable wool blend....but, I digress... I saw Roxanne Richardson's reverse knitting video and I saw some Russian lady do a very direct straight no nonsense purl. So that's the way I do it. I had also watched somebody's video on combination knitting and they helped me understand that there is Continental in English as well as Western and Eastern as pertains to the orientation of which leg of the loop is forward or not to do this stitch that is necessary. In her videos she only explained that If you do a certain stitch this way when you come back on the opposite side you have to Perhaps do you stitch a different way and from the orientation of which leg is forward and the way that you did the other stitch when you were on the other side which, trying to figure that out made me feel like I may be permanently dyslexic if I ever got to the end of it, to me. Then I saw a lady who knitted on the back side of her needles and then I put two and two together and that's the way I knit now. I realized that doing this knitting automatically switches from Western to Eastern and back again with each row, no matter which side... no more dyslexia trying to figure out what that lady was talking about. It's automatic.
This is the cast on method I've used for decades and I find it the neatest and quickest
Very confused
Another person making beginning hard wow learn how to show a beginner simple ways to ad a stich omg omg omg
Any suggestions for a simpler cast on Suzanne?