Knitting - holding the yarn????

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I knit like this but I don't know which method it is.

I hold the yarn between thumb and forefinger, and the rest of it goes through my fist to the ball. My forefinger controls the yarn, and the right hand needle is controlled by my thumb. The left needle doesn't move so much, but the left hand takes care of it. I've just had to check to find out how I did it, as it is automatic.

I knit fairly quickly, though, and don't find it laborious. I have been doing it that way since I was 7, and can't unlearn it now.

I followed a couple of videos when starting some new crochet projects and everyone seemed to be holding their hooks in a different way to me. My tension though is good and my stitches flow which they certainly don't if I pick up knitting needles.

That's how I knit Callistemon To many people's disgust it's also how I hold my yarn for crochet, hook and yarn in the same hand Never had any complaints about the finished articles.

I do hold the yarn in my left hand when crocheting but have to hold the hook like a knife, not a pen.

I do it the Tanith way as well, it's quick and easy. My DM taught me when I was about 7 and that's the way I've been doing it ever since.

I hold the needle under my right arm and knit no need to let go

I think, whichever way you knit, speed and technique comes with practice. I’m a very quick knitter after 60 years but slow at crochet after just one. I think it’s more about enjoyment than speed