Again, this is just a first try at a video clip. I will do this again and again until I get it right.
Again, my hands are all beat up from pruning all morning. Sorry no pretty models.
Here is a shorter clip showing finger and needle movements.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Video of Gansey Needles with Knitting Sheath
Gansey needles are a very powerful if somewhat specialized knitting tool. However, gansey needles are the tool to knit a gansey without ruining your wrists.
Again, this is just a first try at a video clip. I will do this again and again until I get it right.
Again, this is just a first try at a video clip. I will do this again and again until I get it right.
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These videos are terrific! Thanks for creating them and putting them on your blog. I'm curious to try using a knitting sheath with the long d.p. needles for some fair isle knitting.
Thank you, thank you for posting all this! I've wanted to teach myself to knit this way but couldn't quite figure it out (I have a French friend who uses the same or similar finger motion but without supporting her needle).
Found your blog via Ravelry....
yep, gotcha thru ravelry...I love the look of the gansey. It is my favorite sweater...even the simplest ones are good for the eyes of the soul and comfy and practical, etc, etc.
thanks for addressing the ergonomics of knitting!
hi every person,
I identified gansey.blogspot.com after previous months and I'm very excited much to commence participating. I are basically lurking for the last month but figured I would be joining and sign up.
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Now I have it! Resting the right arm on the needle really helps. Much more flex than I had been giving it. Thank you.
It took me two nights burning the midnight oil to get this down...
I made my own DPN's from spring steel, and this is the way to go in knitting....
I started a Gansey with 5ply Gansey wool and I love every minute of it. I am an active long distance cruiser sailor and I am always hurting for good warm and weather proof fisherman sweathers.
I think I am the only person in Ireland who knits with a knitting sheath :-)
All teh best from Dublin, Ireland
Lovely video! Now I have to find a way to use long DPNs in "combined knitting" - yarn in left hand...
It is pretty much the same. By the end of a day long class, I can have everybody doing Fair Isle and other Stranded knitting with a yarn in each hand. It is the only reasonable way to do "weaving" and speckled knitting.
A lot of folks want to learn to knit this way. Would you consider submitting to teach a class at Stitches Texas (in September)? Couldn't find your email contact so I hope you get this.
I have approached them on teaching.
Something about they did not want to have an "infomercial" about the strange stuff I was making and selling.
I am considering approaching them again.
Well I agree, nobody likes infomercials. But I"m not sure what that has to do with anything. I'd really like to learn the technique! As long as you're not asking students to buy supplies from you, then I can't imagine why they'd not welcome the class. I'm sure it would be very popular. I would like some links as to where I can buy whatever is needed in the homework section of the class listing.
Thanks for these videos. I'm currently trying to teach myself how to knit with a sheath and there are so few resources available on this topic. For me, finding these videos was a real score.
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