Knit for Brains dot Net

This is a curious technique. It looked worth trying. I had heard that in Peruvian knitting style the yarn was put around the neck, but not here, and I haven’t found any more info on that. You might want to look at this and give it a try. I experimented with it myself and find it seems like a fast variant of English throwing. I’m not crazy about it. The problem I had was in keeping the working yarn where I needed it near the tip of my middle finger, and I also found I needed to use my right hand to tension the yarn around the right needle tip when pulling the loop through.

What I love about the Portuguese style is that it keeps the tension on the yarn automatically, and I don’t need to balance the working strand on my finger. This answered the first big problem I had when I was just learning to knit, where I felt like I needed to be an octopus or have suckers on my fingers to control the yarn. I honestly wanted a third arm to handle the working yarn. I even thought of running the working yarn through a stack of books to keep it where I wanted it. And I even gave up on knitting briefly, and then I found exactly what I wanted in the Portuguese style.

Again, I’ve heard that there is a Peruvian style that is much like or the same as Portuguese, so this may be just another style they have down there. If you know of any video of the yarn-around-the-neck style they use in Peru (that isn’t done in this video), please let me know.

Thanks for stopping by. -- Eric