The World's Fastest Knitter comes from Scotland

Hazel Tindall won an international knitting competition to find the World's Fastest Knitter. She completed 262 stitches in 3 minutes at the contest, beating her own previous record. Just watch this footage - and honest, it's not speeded up! She really does knit this fast!

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[lilywondertwin]

That sweater her husband is wearing is gorgeous!

[Cookieanddough]

wish i could knit that fast...

[bahr Shaheen]

ma shaa Allah.. great work :)

[camcab147]

This is impressive. It'd also be nice to see her technique; I'm always interested in new ways of knitting :)

[Thecrabbytabby28]

I am in awe at her speed. She just blazes through it like its second nature. Probably is for her. Surprised the yarn doesn't catch fire from all the friction. JK, LOL!!

[Dave Desmond]

try tucking one needle under your right arm to hold it steady. Wrap the yarn loosely once around your right little finger , bring it up under the palm of your right hand and let it lie over the tip of your right index finger. Once you have cast on your loops and you start knitting, you should only need to move your index finger to throw the yarn over the needles. Keep practising and you will speed up.

[Dave Desmond]

It is traditional english/scottish knitting. Continental knitting (popular in America) holds the yarn over the left hand and picks up the stitch as if you were doing crochet. English knitting is where the yarn is held in the right hand and is thrown forward over the needles before coming to rest back over the righ hand/fingers. I have tried both methods but I always go back to traditional english knitting.

[Dave Desmond]

takes years and years and years and years of practice. My granny was a fast knitter and was taught to knit (in Scotland) at the age of 3. I think she was probably as fast as this lady. I have been knitting for over 50 years and I am still not as quick as my granny and this lady...ah well, I'll just keep going.

[jennyandk]

Awesome knitting great respect from a fellow knitter :)



[269821]

What method os this english, continental or is there a scottish?

[RCOCINA]

AMAZING it takes me 10 to 15 min to purl 198 stitches

[Inxxuu]

I was thinking the same thing. So I made a calculation based on the last sweater I knit - it took her about 1 day. Now I reminded myself how long it took me to make it ::embarrassed::.