continental purl variation - Finish

[applepansy]

I like your video. I knit continental. I use my thumb to guide the yarn form the front.

[Rozikess]

I have been watching so many videos on continental knitting and trying to teach myself how to knit this way and I just get so frustrated with it and go back to English knitting. I will be trying your style , I like how you slow it down for those of us who are trying to learn. Could you show more of how you hold the yarn and slowly? How do you grab the yarn to start? I have tried wrapping the yarn twice around my index finger as you show but then my tension is to tight.

[dobiegirl1000]

A very helpful video. My goal for the new year is to teach myself continental knitting. Have been watching a number of videos and yours has helped me the most. Your slow motions makes it easy to watch every movement of your needles. Please do more lessons. Thanks! teresac

[AprilNicoleSmith]

Oh my word. Thank you! I love you! LOL!

[sarah6moshe]

Thank YOU SO MUCH for providing this demonstration and making it so clear and easy! It's really so much easier on my left hand than the old "twist the wrist" method I first learned for continental purling.

[ianfusa]

This looks the same as Norwegian purl except with the yarn in front of the left needle instead of behind.

[aedmd]

I really like this method. I am really confused, though, by what is going on in that 1st stitch. It is completely different than the other stitches. Can you explain what you are doing there?

[stell66]

Hi Aedmd - I always slip the first stitch of any row purlwise (that is insert the right needle as if to purl but just transfer it to the right needle without working it), this gives me a chained slip stitch edge up the edge of my knitting which is neat, visually tidy and easy to pick up from if I need to. Some people slip the last stitch - some knit both first and last, some purl first and last ... you can purl the first stitch if that suits what you are knitting.

[antoot1]

Finally!!! It's been really hard for me to purl stitch. Garter stitch no problem. I'm left handed. This has really helped.  It's exactly how I knit stich just the opposite. Thanks so much.

[EveStarr]

I agree with leash44. This is a huge improvement over the usual way. I learned English-style first, but am working on conquering Continental for two-handed color work. This is definitely the best method. thanks!

[pumpkinpatch2009]

Thank you! I have a great knit technique and, this is a purl technique that matches it!!!!!!

[JorahLavin]

Thanks for this. I've avoided Continental because I couldn't purl without feeling as if my wrist were breaking. Tried Norwegian purl, but not fast enough for me... may not have given it enough time. Last summer I saw a German lace teacher knitting at lunch and she barely moved her fingers for the purl. Tried to figure out what she was doing, but she was too quick. Now I think I know! I'm going to practice this today. THANK YOU!

[weezee30]

Thank you so much for the great video on the knit and purl. Now I just have to practice after knitting by throw for 60 some years. At my age I "have" to go faster. I'm also trying to hold my yarn like you do but I can't get the tension right. I'll keep trying.

[happilyhedonistic]

THANK YOU for posting this - i only just started knitting, after years of trying, quitting, and trying, every time ending in frustration and throwing the needles across the room. i finally found continental stitch, which makes more sense to me (left handedness maybe?) yet could not figure out how to purl the way others show me; just too difficult. i wish the beginning wasn't blurry, as I can't figure out what's going on with the first stitch... but it looks so much more intuitive. you rock.

[warr28]

i have the same question as penelopekc, does this twist the stitch so that it needs to be knitted through the back loop on the other side? thank you so much for this

[stell66]

no not twisted, the same stitch orientation on the needle if knit or purled.

[leash44]

Oh. My. God. I wish I had found this sooner. Purling the other ways I have it done hurts my hand so bad and I have come to loathe purl rows. I tried this method and no pain. Thank you so much!

[bpsparx]

The best---THE BEST---purling video. I just knew there had to be a better technique out there and I found it!!! Thank you for posting.

[scotpond]

I keep the yarn on pulled back so the right needle can go down over the thread and I can push it through the loop from the top down. No winding or twisting necessary to make the loop on the right needle.

[me24miget]

what size needle did you use? it looks like you used a size 4 or 5. My continental purl needs a lot of practice. But I love your slow pace when you demo this type of method.

[stell66]

I think i used 3.25mm, it was so long ago, but the only wooden straights I have are 3.25mm, thanks for the nice comments.

Stella

[ParisKillsSenne]

learned loads, thanks

[LaClairEtoile]

Lovely demonstration, done properly at a slow pace. Thanks so much for sharing this.

[LaClairEtoile]

Very nice demonstration. A little like Elizabeth Zimmerman's purling, although a bit more fluid, I think. I use the continental method because I find it faster and with less overall movement. It also comes naturally for me to hold the wool in my left hand having been a crocheter for many years.

[penelopekc]

If you use this purl method, do you need to knit in the back loop? I think I heard this somewhere. I am a continental knitter, and find that this method of purling is not as clumsy and also is much faster for me. Thanks for your demonstration.

[stell66]

No - the stitch is not twisted, it has the same orientation when purled or knitted.

[warr28]

thanks!!

[ExaltedPoet]

thanks for posting the video!!! very helpful ^_^

[mommasan]

This is a nicely fluid way to demonstrate the purl stitch. I have seen many styles and they all seem so very labor intense.

Thank you for the slow motion and lack of dialog.

[WNanette]

YAAAAY for Continental/German knitting!! LOL

Thank you Stell66 ^_^

[spinalpaca]

I love the slow motion of this video!!! Wonderful job!!!