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Hey there, sorry my blog was down for a few days. Here are a few amusing knitting songs to make it up to you.

The lyrics to the Fraggle video are below:

It’s neat and it’s sweet.
It’s a ding dong treat,
Knittin’ socks for little feet.
Just sittin’ with your knittin’ all day long.

You know, knittin’s friendly,
And knittin’s fun.
Knittin’s good for everyone,
And that is why we sing this knittin’ song.

Well it’s knit one pearl two.
What’s a Doozer gonna do,
With a gol-darn,
Ball of yarn?
It’s stitch three drop four.
Pitch that knittin’ out the door right now.

There’s a green, there’s a red.
There’s a knot in my thread.
A knitter needs his noggin read,
So don’t come ’round and speak to me of yarn.

You can k-nit all day and k-nothin’ fits.
‘Cause only k-nitwits like to k-nit,
And k-nittin’ k-needles just ain’t worth a darn.

Well it’s knit one pearl two.
What’s a Doozer gonna do,
With a gol-darn,
Ball of yarn?
It’s stitch three drop four.
Pitch that knittin’ out the door right now.

Below are two videos sent to me by my penpal Larisa. She knits socks using 5 crochet hooks instead of DPNs and it’s pretty fast. Very cool idea. I hope you can pick up the idea from the videos. I bet of you could keep track you could do patterns with this method. The videos require Quicktime to be installed on your computer. The video will take a couple minutes to download.

Fast sock knitting with crochet hooks.

Hook Knitting Detail Video

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