How to Knit Continental style
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The Knit Stitch
Perform a knit stitch by inserting your right hand needle through the loop on the left hand needle, wrapping the yarn around the right hand needle, and drawing that yarn through the loop. Then dropping the original loop off the left hand needle, leaving the new loop on the right hand needle. Continental Style Continental style, a.k.a. European style knitting means you wrap the working yarn with your left hand. This is often said to be the faster way of knitting because you do not remove your left hand from the needle to wrap the yarn. It can be a very effective technique if you are doing two-color or fair-isle knitting. If you naturally hold the working yarn in your left hand, then Continental knitting is probably your style. I've also noticed that continental knitting can be more natural for knitters who also crochet and thus feed the working yarn with their left hand. |
Step 1: How to Long Tail Cast On
 How to Long Tail Cast On
Need some stitches on the needles? Watch the video for how to perform the Long Tail Cast On to begin.
Advanced Step: Decrease k2tog (continental)
 How to K2tog decrease (continental style)
Know how to knit and purl? Take the next step and learn the basic decrease step. You can make hats with these three skills!
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 Learn to tension the yarn for continental knitting
How to tension the yarn for continental knitting
Learning to continental knit can be difficult if you don't tension the yarn correctly in your left hand. Watch this video for some helpful tips. |