Australian Knitting

Unusual Knitting Video #1
Juanita, visiting from Australia, showed us her stuff! She says her mother taught her to knit--& this style of knitting is just called 'knitting.'

Category:

Howto & Style

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• knitting
• australian knitting
• lancaster yarn shop
• australian

[OdonataPlague]

@jfager100 concidering knitting is one of those passed down domestic skills , and a huge number of irish and british populated Australia- we probably knit this way because they do.... just learning to knit- and this is what my mum showed me ....i didnt realise it was different

[rosanna1952]

I learned to knit this way in Australia, it's fast and comfortable because my wrist doesn't get sore when knitting big projects....

[jfager100]

I learned to knit in Ireland in 1960-61, and all my classmates and teachers knitted this way. Here I have been telling my students that it was "English style" or British style knitting. Oops! Maybe I should just say I learned to knit in Ireland and leave it at that. :0)

[KaisaLisa]

@drumpointer Yes, it did look rather awkward to me as well when I first saw this way of knitting in Australia. I learnt to knit in Germany as a child and couldn't imagine that there were more ways of doing it. I'm surprised to see so many different ways of holding the needles and the wool here on you tube. I wonder how that came about.

[batdude711]

this is called the english style knitting

[obutiamcalm]

Finally! For the first time in over 30 years I have found another person who knits as I do!  I was taught by an English woman in Australia - and the style was neither fish nor fowl, as they say. But it was extremely fast. When my hands were young and limber I was able to knit 100 st/min - faster than I could type. Thanks for capturing this technique.

[drumpointer]

I am a continental knitter but I can knit with the yarn held in my right hand. I never prefer the right hand method but do it when I have to handle two yarns at the same time as in 2 color knitting. I never have been able to get the hang of holding the needles this way, though I have tried, just for the heck of it. It is the most common way of knitting I see in British films and tv. It just seems so awkward, but they do it very naturally. All the Miss Marples knitted in this manner.

[eddieknits]

I read recently - don't know where - that this style of knitting was developed in Victorian England because it was thought to look more ladylike. Don't know if it is so, but it's written down in at least one place!