How to Knit Continental Style — The Knit Stitch (Picking Method)

Learn the Continental knit stitch: hold the yarn in your left hand and pick it off your finger tip for even tension. Step-by-step knit stitch for beginners and for throwers switching styles, shown Continental. In this tutorial you will learn: • How to wrap the working yarn around your little finger and over two fingers for control • How to work the first stitch, then pick the yarn off your finger tip for every stitch after it • Why pushing the yarn around the needle makes knit stitches larger than your purl stitches • How wrapping the yarn once or twice around your little finger changes how smoothly it feeds Related videos • Continental purl stitch (next video in the sequence) — https://youtu.be/BCBj6jQIt3Q • Continental K2P2 ribbing — https://youtu.be/eIJ-5VeC1jg • Knit stitch both Continental and English — https://youtu.be/uqKFl7hBifs • Playlist: Beginning Continental Knitting — https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLKJ9GuhEEwkWQnR2BhcJ0AE6dZ9iHbHb Classes: https://masteryourknitting.com If you enjoy my videos, please subscribe and consider buying me a coffee on Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/suzannebryan I am Suzanne Bryan, TKGA Certified Master Hand Knitter. I teach the how and the why so your knitting looks handmade, not homemade. Where to find me - Suzanne - Off the Cuff - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQBgFUvQzjz1RUm9NsgEA1A Knitting with Suzanne Bryan on Ravelry - https://www.ravelry.com/groups/knitting-with-suzanne-bryan Knitting with Suzanne Bryan on FB- ht