How to Knit - Improving your Speed and Control in English Style Knitting

Hello Knitters! I've had several requests for a video explaining exactly how I wrap the yarn in my right hand, as it hasn't been clear in my previous videos. So here in this video I try my hardest to demonstrate my wrapping technique for you. I also talk about the position of the needle in the right hand and how it relates to the speed of knitting.

Update: There have been a few comments with queries about holding the needle like a pencil when there are a lot of stitches on the needle, or the knitted fabric is long. All you have to do is place the work up in the webbing between your thumb and index finger and continue knitting as usual.

Happy knitting!

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Howto & Style

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• knit
• knitting
• wrap
• wrapping
• yarn
• speed
• control
• english
• style

[jannetie]

Wow, this is the first time I've seen anyone knitting like this since I learned to knit actual garments more than 40 years ago, and it was an English friend who showed me. People who see me knitting think I'm knitting in the continental style (I can't get the hang of that - am much faster with English pencil style). As someone else mentioned, when the work gets too long, just keep your thumb under the work. When it gets really long (as in knitting a blanket), throw the work over your right arm.

[jenster181]

I never realized how a simple hand adjustment could make my knitting easier and faster. Thank you so much for this video!

[TheSalami123]

Great Instructions. Thanks so much I have been looking for this forever.

[lpspnp]

Just what I was looking for.

[shaylynarchuleta100]

btw good video

[shaylynarchuleta100]

u have to twist the needls to knit over hand i knit over hand and i twist! :) :D XD!

[haleygayle]

when you have a bigger peice thats longer and wider do you have a hard time knitting like that?

[crimsonskye79]

@Sunflower2590 You can also try different ways of holding the yarn, there are several techniques so you can try all of them and see what works for you. If all else fails buy a knitting thimble, it is used to control tension, and/or to separate multiple colors of yarn. They are also known as a strickfingerhut. You can do a search here on youtube to see what they look like.

[crimsonskye79]

@Sunflower2590 When you wrap the yarn around your finger it is to control the tension. So if your knitting is too tight, then your are holding too tight on the yarn when you are knitting and giving it too much tension. Loosen your grip on the yarn and let a bit more out as you are forming each stitch. Just keep watching different youtube videos and practicing and eventually you can get the hang of it.

[Sunflower2590]

when I wrap the yarn around my fingers its too tight so my needles end up making annoying squeaky noises and I can't loosen up the yarn so I knit rather slowly. how do you loosen it smoothly so it doesn't interrupt the knitting?