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Knit faster using English Throwing style knitting

Gittins Claire

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Knit faster using English / Throwing / Flicking style knitting.
Are you struggling to knit quickly. Do you feel your knitting is slow?
Learn how to speed up your knitting technique and discover a great way to hold the needles and your yarn.

Time stamps:
0:00 Intro
0:37 How most new knitters start knitting
1:17 Why knitting this way improves your knitting technique
1:27 How to gain tension on the yarn
2:09 How to hold the needles
2:43 To start knitting with this technique
3:43 To Purl with this knitting technique
4:50 See me knitting at speed to show this technique in practice
5:15 Outro

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20 Comments

@sbpierce9987 1 year ago

That’s how my Mum knit - faster than lightening she was and hardly looked down at all. Amazing.

@walterroughley2948 1 year ago

That’s how I’ve always knitted

@FrancesBritain 1 year ago

It is so refreshing to see this style of knitting. Exactly as I was taught

@lisearchbold6864 1 year ago

Yaay this is the first time I have ever seen a video of knitting this way. This is how I was taught by my Mother.

@ivyjohnson1886 9 months ago

I started knitting when I was 9 years old. I am 75 and have always knitted this way. Thanks to my mum ❤

@jennygraham3033 1 year ago

This is how I knit. Learnt it from my grandmother.

@jennifermiller7139 1 year ago

My mother was from England and she taught me how to knit that way. I live in the US. A lot of people of asked me about that way of knitting. This is so much easier and faster. I’m glad you’re doing this tutorial.

@homiehomie3650 10 months ago

This is how we were taught to knit. My mother used to knit in this way, swift, accurate and she didn't need to look the project continuously.

@jolewis-brown6608 11 months ago

I knit like this. It’s particularly quick across purl stitches.

@Kiss_My_Art 11 months ago

I've knitted this way for 60 years as did my Mom, my Gran & Great-Gran ...so that's going back to at least 1880 ! 👵

@robertastewart2083 1 year ago

This is exactly how I knit! I think that lots of people in the Commonwealth countries used to knit like this in the 1940’s.

@triciatuley7423 8 months ago

Have been knitting like this foe 70 years. ❤

@lindaturner2980 11 months ago

Just how I was taught by my mum 67 years ago!

@Christopher-s-Mother 1 year ago

This is how I was taught by my mother...and she was from the Isle of Lewis...!

@sueboon5180 10 months ago

That is how I was taught to knit.

@2bassets 1 year ago

This is how I knit. I never knew that it has a name. I thought it was just called "knitting"! My mother taught me this way about 70 years ago. She was from Alabama.

@lizzietoo 1 year ago

This is the way my Mom taught me. When I first saw people dropping the yarn between stitches I was soooo confused.

@LindaMcCoy-kp6si 9 months ago

Hallelujah finally someone who knits the way I do

@jilldavies7094 1 year ago

I never knew there was any way of knitting other than this.

@lynnwelburn5382 10 months ago

That's how I was taught by my Canadian mum who was fast, accurate, used three needles at a go when making socks and stuff. Never knew there was another way to hold needle or that my mum's style was called English Throwing. But my heritage is British so it makes sense that whoever taught my mum was likely English.