Feb 18 2007
Continental Knitting
I’m pretty sure I was shown how to knit when I was young, but it never really took. A few years ago I decided to give it another go (after a particularly bad day of too many stupid mistakes with my quilting project), and looked online for some tips and techniques. I found an old video of the continental method, gave it a shot and really took to it… however, I started a knitting class at a local shop in which the instructor was not particularly enamoured with that method, so I switched.
I’ve got a couple projects on the needles at the moment, one of which involves a fair bit of switching between knit and purl stitches - something I recall finding exceedingly easier using the continental method. As luck would have it, today on whipup.net I saw a link to a great YouTube tutorial (see below) on how to tackle this method. Yay! I’ll be switching back shortly, which will hopefully speed up these projects so I can move on to others.
