knitting style

I relearning how to knit again. When I learned to do it as a child I
wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't
"swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my
style called?

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I relearning how to knit again. When I learned to do it as a child I
wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't
"swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my
style called?

COntinental. It is supposed to be quicker than English, which is what I
do.
Congratulations on picking up knitting again!

Higs,
Katherine

wrote:
I relearning how to knit again. When I learned to do it as a child I
wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't
"swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my
style called?

Thanks for checking in.

Please let us know how you do and ask many questions.

Hugs & God bless,
Dennis & Gail

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Katherine wrote:

wrote:
I relearning how to knit again. When I learned to do it as a child I
wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't
"swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my
style called?

Continental. It is supposed to be quicker than English, which is what
I do.
Congratulations on picking up knitting again!

Some people call the motion you use (Continental) "picking" and the
motion used in "English" style knitting is called "throwing".

=Tamar

I knit like that always have, but I also hook it up around my little
''pinky-baby''' finger then around the index finger, I guess it is the same,
but I think the extra hooking gives a better or higher tension, at the end
of the day, neither method is better than the other, it is all a case of
what you get used to I think and both methods result in a knitted material.

Shepherds used to knit with just one needle so I'm told, goodness knows how,
I'd drop all the stitches, must have been a right and wrong way for this
one...lol

higz Cher
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I relearning how to knit again. When I learned to do it as a child I
wrapped my yarn around my index finger on my left hand. I don't
"swing" the yard around like many that I observed today. What is my
style called?

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spinninglilac wrote:

Shepherds used to knit with just one needle so I'm told, goodness knows how,
I'd drop all the stitches, must have been a right and wrong way for this
one...lol

I think "shepherd's knitting" is slipstitch crochet, done through only the
front of the loop; Priscilla Gibson-Roberts researched it and similar methods
(Bosnian crochet, etc). It makes a very thick fabric and is done with a
wide hook; the hook width is used to control the size of the loop.

=Tamar

Thanks for all your replies. I now know that I do continental.