Knitters - continental or English?

mtietz

Which style knitter are you? Have you always knit that way?

I am learning and my MIL taught me English. I am watching the continental demos at knittinghelp.com and I just cannot wrap my mind around it. Embarassed

Just curious what everyone here does . . .
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newuanda · Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

Yeah, English here - I don't think I could get my nondominate hand to do that.
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wbkt8 · Mama Hyena Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 411 HC$ 15.22

ok so i got curious and had to go watch some of the videos. i don't currently knit (need to try again), but my mom taught me knit & purl (she always did the casting on) when i was a kid. definitely english.
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Moon · Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject:

combo
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sophiekat · Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:50 pm Post subject:

english

Sunflwer · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:01 am Post subject:

I've just been teaching myself using that site and definately prefer English.

Paula
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LoveBugBottoms · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:42 am Post subject:

definitely continental. it's not that hard once you get used to it and it's a LOT faster, imo.
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mtietz · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:52 am Post subject:

mindy · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:47 am Post subject:

continental, it clicked in less than 5 mins for me after trying randomly since i was 5 to learn te english way
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tracey_r21 · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:02 am Post subject:

I learned English 15 years ago and still knit English now. I would like to learn Continental someday.
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vkberes · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:55 pm Post subject:

Continental. I thought it was a lot faster.

Cynthia · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:33 am Post subject:

English.

Is knitting backwards titled English, too?
I often wonder about that.
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Momtomycharm · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:05 am Post subject:

English. I don't think I could get my nodominant hand to do that either, maybe I could if I tried really hard on it since that is the hand I use to hold my yarn when I crochet.
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mom2cassie · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:27 am Post subject:

I started somewhat recently, and when I was starting, a friend referred me to knittinghelp.com. She also highly recommended learning continental. So I tried both and found that I was most comfortable w/ Continental. And I'm even right handed! I just found english very awkward and cumbersome for me.

But then, I didn't knit at the time, and didn't have any habits to unlearn! I can't imagine trying to switch if I already knew English -- that would just be so HARD!!

Lea

sararose · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:37 am Post subject:

i learned english....didn't know there was any other way lol. i tried continental a while back....i kept getting all tangled up in the yarn. just didn't click for me shrug

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