Amazing, thank you so much. You're such a brilliant teacher. I now feel confident to give this a go. Guten Rutsch

Steeking always terrifies me, but it is never as bad as I imagine it will be. This was very informative, thank you.

Thanks!

Norman you are very thorough, consistent, explains very well and give us all knitters confidence and knowledge. Thank you!

"Steek" is Dutch for "stitch" and "stab", just like in German.

Such a wonderful teacher. Thank you thank you thank you. I couldn’t imagine cutting my knitting before this tutorial. Now I see it is something I can do. Wool is really amazing.

I've been looking for a video explaining this for a little bit. Thanks for posting this. Has anyone used a seam ripper to cut open the steek?

Do I knit? No, not a bit! Did I watch this with rapt attention? Every minute!

Thank you, Norman! This video is so valuable. I now feel much more confident to attempt a colorwork steeked cardigan in 2025!

You are magic! So clear and easily understood. My pattern called for brioche, and directed me to a website to learn it. I said to myself, "Nah. I'll just go to Nimble Needles." Sure enough, you had this vid. You always come through for us!

You are great!! Thanks for sharing it, so ... make one for me? 😁🤭

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This is terrifying! But I need to learn this . Thank you so very much for this tutorial.

brilliant! you always have the solution to any of my knitting problems! I knit exactly like you, with my three fingers on the left needle - I couldn't figure out what to do with the loose yarn when i had rows of uneven colour stitches, till i came back to your video. thank you so much :)

I will say I am still not totally convinced that I can steek, but my confidence has grown some since watching this. I work a lot of fair isle in acrylic (I have wool sensitive wearers and also vegans who I knit for) and my question to you is if I were to make a 7 stitch (or possibly wider) steek and used a hair curling iron to 'melt/felt' the steek before cutting, how secure this would be? I guess I need to make a swatch and test it, eh? lol But what are your thoughts? Could laying a hot curling iron near/against an acrylic steek for long enough to melt the yarn create a secure steek? As always your videos inspire. How I wished I had started to follow you sooner.

Thank you. You are the best. ❤❤

Thank you so very much, you explained and demonstrated steeking so very comprehensively. Love your channel 😊

It comes from old Scottish

Hi Norman, Thank you so much for this video, everything crystal clear. One question: Would be possible to apply the cotton stitch securing method to the wool projects since will create less volume? Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and best wishes for 2025 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄. Italia

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. We have had many gifts through the year and lots of tips. Hope Santa is really good to you because you deserve it from all your viewers lots of praise. All the best for 2025. ❤🇨🇦

Excellent video, I am currently procrastinating cutting my knitting and finish the cardigan out of fear to ruin it. Now I feel much better prepared and have the courage to do it tomorrow. Many thanks! 🤩

Hi Norman, You said you can’t felt super wash yarn. The idea that occurred to me is, can you use sheep wool for the steeking stitches? Then I guess they would felt?🥰

You are AMAZINGLY unique !😇🥰 Among the so many good, interesting, excellent, even fantastically pedagogic "Knitting KZbinrs"... You are, somehow... flying above the mass, the clouds and skies 🤩 I appreciate your exhaustive and cristal clear explanations, AND your thoughts about "How to make it better, why and how improve the way of making a model" This Entrelac video is the very proof of what I'm mentioning. You are not only an absolute knitter, you are the absolute knitting-thinker. You don't "only" give and show models, you get people to think "What am I doing , how, why, can it be better ?" You are the only one I know on YT who really makes me progress by making me understand my (wide) margin of progress !!! Thank you so much !

Awesome tutorial. Thanks Norman! ❤

I have turned away from steeking for thinking I would ruin the fabric. Now, thank you, I have confidence. I will steek! After knitting since I was 9 I think it is time!❤

I love this so much ❣️🧶🧶

EXCELLENT video on steeking! Thank you for taking the time to review and explain all the options. I think a part of me has avoided trying a steek project because that makes the garment FINAL, as in no frogging for another project. Happy Christmas and New Year!

@NimbleNeedles Thank you. All you knit is love. Merry xmas & a happy new year to us all!

Lovely job as always, very clear. ❤. Thanks.

I feel you and I are similar regarding fastidiousness. Do you personally use shorter needles/cables, DPN's, or magic loop for smaller circumferences? I am stuck here.

Thank you for this very detailed tutorial ! I am feeling safe to try it now 😊

Another EXCELLENT tutorial Norman - thank you!

Hey Norman, danke dir für das tolle und hilfreiche Video. Bisher habe ich „ steeking“ ( wie heißt das nochmal auf deutsch 😂) noch nicht versucht aber mein Marie wallin cardigan hätte mich damit sicher weniger nerven gekostet 😉. Much love for you and merry Christmas ❤

Lieben Dank, Norman!

What a great tutorial! I especially appreciate the education about the parallel vs alternating steak stitches. Happy New Year🎉🎉🎉

Thank you for your videos. I enjoy learning the various techniques and appreciate your style of teaching. Happy Holidays.

Great lesson. Thank you.

Happy holidays and thank you for the video. I don't have any plans for projects to be steeked, but it was very nice and calming to watch this anyways.

Norman, you have demystified steeking and made it look simple enough for anyone to try and achieve. Thank you for your most amazing teaching skills. I really appreciate all your podcasts which are always straightforward, down to earth and fun! Sending you best wishes for Christmas and the new year. Linda, UK 💕🧶🎄

Thankyou for this. I now feel I could try this next year when I start on new knitting projects. Wishing you a happy holiday season! 🩵🎅

This is the best video on steeking methods I have seen! Thank you Norman.

Thank you very much for this video Norman. Your videos have helped me so much. I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Very good explenation of steeking methods, thank you so much Norman. I'll safe it immediately 😊 Happy holidays.

I have knitted using the English method for years, but seeing this method (Continental) it looks a lot quicker.

I had a line up of a few vlogmas videos to watch and I dropped them all to watch this!

Happy Holidays!! 😊❤🎉 Thank you for the amazing tutorials!!

Hi Norman. Thank you for such an amazing video cant wait to use it on one of my projects. You can't believe how happy I get seeing the notifications for ur videos. Thank you and happy holidays🎉🎉

Have you forgotten the tutorial for knitting this in a round?

I initially looked this up (after decades of knitting) bc I noticed how in a very loose knit, my purl rows are always much tighter than my knit rows. Using this technique, they still are, but I'm now also questioning everything I ever did because I've never wrapped anything counter clockwise in my life and when I tried this, it didn't look right to me 😂

I bought a case from knitters pride specifically for interchangeable needles however it also has more than enough room to store my dpns as well as having space for some crochet needles and a few other odds and ends tape measure, size gauge etc. found it at Lindehobby