How To Hold Double Pointed Needles - 4 RIGHTIES (Very Detailed Tutorial)

[@pattygardner231]

Such clear instructions. I have avoided DPNs up until now. Watching how you handle them, and your clear teaching style, and your patience, I’m going to give this a try today. Thanks so much. I’m glad I found you. I want to make your fingerless gloves with the thumb gussets.

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

Thank you and good luck, no matter how awkward in the beginning - with some practice you will do well - go very slow at first 🍀 🌹🌷🌼

[@freethinking8749]

You make it very clear and easy to follow. Thank you!

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

Glad it was helpful xxx

[@ellegogh858]

thank you for this video. i've never knitted with five dpns before and the project i'm working on calls for it. i found many tutorials on using and handling four dpns, but not five. i feel way more confident now that i've seen this! thank you so much!

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

Elle - Glad it was helpful! You are welcome 🌷

[@dawnwright5422]

Your viedo was the most helpful to me lately the hats I have been working just fell off my kneedles while I struggled to knit with them so happy you explained so well. Also, that I need to probably use the wooden needles. I like the way you took your time showing all the way around explaining and offering different ways to hold as well as the different styles. Thank you. I liked the hat I watched you make as well. I will try your decreasing method as well. It is good you explain and show how more than a stitch or two and stop.

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

Hi Dawn - yes I tend to go overboard with details 😃, but I feel if people get it they can skip parts of the video 😉

[@katherinevetter9400]

Hi Bronislava, I just want to tell you that I really enjoyed your tutorial. I’m trying to get back into dpn’s after using 2 circulars and the magic loop for the past several years. I found myself enjoying knitting with double points after watching you and I forgotten that it really isn’t so hard to manage the needles if you hold them correctly. Your video helped me with that. Thank you very much.

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

Hi Katherine - thank you for your very nice comment - glad it was helpful 🌹👍

[@19betchai]

Thank you! This video has changed my life! You did us a very big service. Thank you thank you thank you!

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

You are most welcome 19betchai 🌹💛

[@desireemarana4997]

Holy Hannah! Thank you so much!!! It defiantly looks easier continental! Going to have to practice! 😊.

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

there is a way to knit even faster than myself in English style - but that requires practice too and I am too much set in my ways :-) thank you for your nice comment - come again :-)

[@shirleyens7707]

This English style looks cumbersome to me. I knit English style, but I hold my yarn differently. I lift & wrap around little finger (this keeps my tension even) then I hold right needle with thumb & index finger. This allows me to have the yarn come over my middle finger. When knitting a stitch I simply flick my middle finger which wraps the yarn around the needle. It is very quick and because you are not dropping the needle and physically wrapping it, your stitches and tension are even and it is very fast. I have never mastered Continental knitting. I do think it is what you get used to and of course practice. This is a very helpful video especially the placement of the needles. I have been knitting for years and even taught beginner knitting for awhile. Well done!

[@shirleyens7707]

@@HandMadeRukodelky What a good explanation and demonstration. I knit English style and although I wrap my yarn around my little and ring finger like you, I have the yarn then come over my middle finger so that I can hold the needle between my thumb and index finger and simply flick my middle finger to get yarn over the needle when making a stitch. It is very fast and the stitches stay even because I am not dropping the yarn. I think knitting continental or English is a personal preference and maybe just what a person first learned.

[@cathymayfield2064]

Thank you for the tutorial. You showed it slow enough that I believe I will be able to do it. My trouble is making the first and second needle connect in the round. For some reason they don't connect together.

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

Cathy Good luck! You can actually slow down the video (on your pc only) even more... maybe this will help - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIabi5WwjbOHiKs

[@dukeofpurl]

Excellent tutorial! This topic has been ignored or forgotten for way too long a time by other knitting gurus!! Kudos to you!! Good luck with your university courses!!

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

+dukeofpurl Thanks - I am hoping that knitters will be more comfortable knitting on double pointed needles after they see this video - many of them don't know how to deal with the needles that are for the moment just "resting" 😀

[@dukeofpurl]

No one will have an excuse not to use DPNs now!!!! :)

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

+dukeofpurl - that's funny 😂, but I agree - hahaha 😂😂😂😎😎😎 well actually there is also a dexterity involved, if it is not well developed in the brain it will be difficult for some knitters. A dexterity education has to start at a very early age - i.e. Letting small children pick colorful beads, let them work with play-dough, let them screw screws, etc...

[@dukeofpurl]

I agree!! That is exactly what I did with my children, starting at a very early age!! But knitting etc, is not for everybody! :)

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

I did the same with my daughter, and you are right - she doesn't knit hahaha - she has other interests, but she does have dexterity for knitting or crocheting :-)

[@snvazquez724]

Great tutorial, thanks

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

+Sonia Vazquez thank you - share it with all your friends that are reluctant to touch DPNs 😊 it (video) may be helpful to them - hopefully 😎

[@melmckenna4599]

Do you think you could do a video for righties, English style right from the beginning? I end up with my work on the inside of the needles and i don't know what I'm doing wrong, so I'm working on the inside of the needles

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

Hi Mel 🌸 , there is a video for righties, you would have to search my channel - but here is a video for you to understand what happens when suddenly you knit on the inside - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYGyZX6GpJJ8gcU

[@crazygranny930]

Thank you . I can finally use my DPN .not great but at least I am not stabbing myself or dropping them. I do have ladders is there a fix for these?

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

+Anita Ryan - Thank you too..... the more you use DPNs the better you will get in working with them. Your brain will figure out how to work with needles smoothly soon enough. What do you mean by ladders?

[@BlackSeranna]

Thank you!

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

Thank you too 🌸

[@Vicky_C87]

Thanks so much for this! I've been struggling to learn how to knit on double pointed needles because the needles keep flopping around in my hands and I can't work out where I'm up to

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

+MySpaige - knitting on DPNs can be a challenge but if we approach them with organized steps it's really easy 🌹🌷🌼🌸🌺🌻. Thanks for your comment

[@crazygranny930]

Where the needles go from one to the next. I a wide space happens . I've tried to tighten the first stitch but every time I change from one neddle to the next but I still end up with ladders.

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

Hi Anita - try to knit FIRST 2 stitches and LAST 2 stitches on EACH needle tightly - let me know if this helps

[@ghadaelshazly9636]

How can we knit a simple sweater?

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

here is a playlist of a raglan sweater for women size small, - you may want to make body longer than in the video (just simply by knitting many more rows) kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJC4f32igN-kjLc

[@ghadaelshazly9636]

Thank you so much

[@joann5157]

Oops. Operator error. I discovered my main audio was set low. Sorry.

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

thank you for clarification - great point 👍🌹

[@joann5157]

I think this is a good video, but the audio was poor. I couldn't hear well even with the volume at max.

[@HandMadeRukodelky]

Glad you discovered that your main audio was set low - I learned something new again - some people did complain about volume on my videos and that may have been their reason too. 🌹