USE the TOOL! | Knitting Technique

How (ideally) to use your knitting needles as the measuring tools they are!
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[@wilsonstreet616]

Using my knitting needles in this way, using the tips to manipulate the yarn and the the shaft to size the stitch made it possible for me to easily work with my bamboo knitting needles. Before learning this, I had to use metal needles. Now I no longer have to "shove" the stitches along. Very nice tutorial. :)

[@HeatherStorta]

Yay for easier knitting!!

[@JosieStev]

Very helpful. I’m new to knitting but started crochet during Lockdown. I love the look of knitting 🧶

[@lynnwebster6251]

Excellent video, that's the clearest best description for proper knitting technique I've heard. Ty!

[@HeatherStorta]

You are so welcome!

[@kirsten07734]

You’ve explained this very clearly, thank you. I’ll be referring my students to this video.

[@HeatherStorta]

Awesome!

[@cindyduppong9181]

Very helpful explanation. A while ago, I videoed myself doing a few knit stitches and few purl stitches. I thought I was holding the needles perpendicular to each other in both instances. I was surprised to find out that my knit stitches were made that way, but my purl stitches (which were bigger) were made with my needles out to the sides. When I corrected my needle angle, my tension improved - but I would have never known if I didn't do that little video.

[@HeatherStorta]

That's a great idea to film yourself!

[@grayson-therussianbluemix2039]

Awesome idea... definitely will try that! 😊

[@MissHoyden]

This was extremely useful. Thanks!

[@HeatherStorta]

You're welcome!

[@Chrisesparkle]

Thank you. I have never thought out why my gauge occasionally doesn’t alter when I have changed needle size and found it frustrating as the material produced loses drape or is too loose and doesn’t suit the pattern. I am a fairly tight knitter. Also it’s particularly difficult when knitting in the round to avoid ladders. I tighten the second stitch but it still remains a problem. The position of the needles when using dpns also affects this. I’m definitely going to pay more attention. It’s amazing how much more information is available for knitting now. My Mum taught me her way many years ago😀 Greetings from the Lake District UK

[@HeatherStorta]

Happy to have you here!! Just sitting down and paying attention to how you knit and what is actually happening with the yarn, needles, and your hands, can go a long way to improving your fabric!

[@michelleklein3056]

Tremendously helpful!

[@HeatherStorta]

So glad!

[@grayson-therussianbluemix2039]

Loved this... as soon as I started watching, my mind went back to your Harmonious Echo sweater class at Kanuga where I could not for the life of me get gauge... no matter how many times I went down in needle size! Will, definitely be putting these "tips" to work! 😊

[@HeatherStorta]

:-)

[@Sarahpreecenelsonnz]

thank you. much appreciated.

[@HeatherStorta]

You're welcome!

[@NYKnitter]

Yes, well explained . I think this is a good resource to share/ link , when I hear knitters struggling with " lying gauge swatches" :)

[@HeatherStorta]

Yes, share away!!

[@audreybattrum1242]

Very helpful.

[@HeatherStorta]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MtMomDesigns]

Confession: I tend to stretch out the old stitches and then tighten them when I stretch the *next* old stitch. Thus slack gets carried to the end stitch where there’s no next stitch to eat it up, giving me alternating large and small stitches along left-hand edge. When doing Masters swatches, I pay extra attention and can overcome this, but it feels awkward and frays my nerves! 😅

[@HeatherStorta]

Yes! That's "rowing out" and a very common thing! I have a video on that, but a good fix to try is to work the first three stitches of a row a bit tighter and the last three stitches of a row a bit looser. Then the slack moves across and evens things out as you work the next row. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4THgqSlp7iMhqs