This version of starting in the round on dpns(double pointed needles)is knit continental style and has a neat method to make a smooth ladder free join.
What i think is pretty standard contintal knitting, but as you will see my left first finger is kept fairly close to the needle. works for me. Again old digital still camera and the opperator fairly unskilled so please 'cuse blurry bits. Doing this i knit really fast and even
How to knit the crook or chain stitches of twined knitting, this demo show the yarn hold for continental style knitting and demonstrates making the stitches slowly.
a clearer version of knitting brioche in the round, using knit(or purl) into the stitch below. requires a set up row of K1P1 rib, and even number of stitches, also works if knitting flat. Uses Finish-style purl, continental knit
This shows how I wrap the yarns over my left hand to knit corrugated rib continental style. The yarn which will be purled needs to be wraped around the first finger. Wrapping both around the smallest finger seems to cause tangles.
showing how I pick pick up stitches around a steek, using a crochet hook and circular needle. I use a needle 2x larger than I will knit with, and then pick up the loose loops on the reverse and knit these for the facing to hide the cut steek edge
this crochet cast on for knitting, matches both a slipped stitch edge and a traditional cast off (knit 2 -slip first stitch over, *one stitch on needle, knit 1, slip 1st stitch over*, repeat from * to * until only one stitch is left - pull tail thru loop and trim)
a companion video to the one on twined knitting showing the easy way to untwist the yarns. You have to continually twist the yarns to get the twined effect and this technique of untwisting makes it easy.
Shows how to knit two colour corrugated ribbing, continental style, using the finish purl. Both yarns are held in left hand. See companian video for how to hold/wind yarns over fingers on left hand
This baby blanket was knit in the round to make the fair isle easier. The steek is 3 stitches wide, and reinforced by both hand and machine stitching. Then cut - thats right cut.
Holding they yarn in the left hand, wound around the idex/forefinger. Shows view from of the yarn wound thru the left hand fingers, from a few perspectives.
Brioche, a 2 row thick textured rib pattern, set up row is K1P1 rib. In the round knit brioche using the knit or purl into the stitch below technique (one of 3 ways of making brioche, the other ways don't work so well in the round)
![starting on dpn\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/nDEuVtm7WQA/2.jpg "starting on dpn\")
![Twined knitting - \](http://img.youtube.com/vi/PrbCC1hT2ko/2.jpg "Twined knitting - \")
