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 Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:23 pm
I learned how to do the Norwegian purl today. It's really fun. It's not quick yet, but it's a lot more fun than regular continental purl. You hold the working yarn in the back of the work to do the stitch, and then you twirl it all around and then magically you've got a purl stitch! Does anyone else use Norwegian purl? Does it get any faster? For those who are curious: http://knittinghelp.com/knitting/basic_techniques/purl.phpIt's under Alternative methods.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:16 pm
0.o I can understand wanting to learn different styles...but it seems odd to me. I have carple tunnle though, and that really doesn't have much economy of movement to it, so it's not something I would want to do.
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:33 am
You're right, there isn't much economyf of movement, but it's not much worse than the way I do a regular continental purl. My regular one has about three fingers on my left hand involved to hold the yarn where it needs to be to get it through the loop, and the tension is way off compared to my knit.
Now, to be honest, I don't think it's something I'll end up doing forever, but I've heard it's a good way to get your head around how to wrap the yarn for the regular one so that it's not fingers everywhere. mrgreen
It's also a neat trick to show other knitters, because everyone's convinced that you're wrapping the yarn too many times and you'll never get a proper purl out of it, and then you pull the loop through, and it's sitting right there. xd
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:13 am
I know I knit sort of funny--I'd been crocheting for ten years before I learned to knit, so I hold my needles and yarn simmilar to how I would crochet, and according to some people I crochet wrong, but I'm quite fast at both.
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:28 pm
I actually found that crochet hurt my wrist more than knitting does. I started out with crochet, and switched a couple mounts ago (I'd only been crocheting for about a month though),
In other news, Norwegian purl is a lovely thing for knitting with dpns. You don't have to bring the yarn forward to get all tangled up in the other needles, and you can still do ribbing. biggrin Though now that I've been doing ribbing for a bit, I find the regular continental purl easier for straights.
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:59 pm
Okay, so today I dove into combined purl, continental hold. It's much much easier than regular continental purl, and less fiddley than Norwegian purl. It's done by wrapping (or picking, or scooping. Whatever terminoligy floats your boat) the working yarn clockwise around the needle. The results in a stitch that has the leading leg on the back of the needle, so it needs to be worked through the back loop on the next round/row, but the purl itself is easier to pull the yarn through the loop. No more yarn jumping off the needle for me. :3
Yes, I'm a fickle knitter.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:46 pm
Okay, i watched the video and i couldn't get it to slow down. It was like sped up or something. Anyway, what's the difference between that purl and a regular purl?? I don't really get it...
And i've been knitting for over two years... sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:01 pm
The yarn is wrapped the opposite way, making it easier to pull the strand through. It causes the stitch to be twisted on the next round/row, so you have to remember to work the stitch through the back loop to turn it rightways again.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:43 pm
this is something Egga's never heard of surprised
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