That's Continental

To knit with your left hand, thats quite continental.

Sorry, I couldn't really resist that one.

Anyway, I decided after talking with a friend last week that I wanted to start knitting Continental. It occurred to me that when I color work I struggled to maintain tension in my work and I think its because I usually just hold and wrap the yarn in my left hand as a I work.

I am left handed, so when I started really getting into the fiber arts a few years ago I started to crochet. With crochet left handers hold their yarn in their right hand the hook in the left. When I started to knit more often I learned knit English. I like this style but one of my goals for myself it so knit faster and also make my color work more consistent.

After my summer shawl project (that I am super happy with and turned out so lovely) I wanted to pick a simple color work project to work on my continental knitting.

I started with the Japan Cowl to test my continental skills. I've only been doing it for about an hour but as each row goes on my color work looks better and my ability to hold the yarn gets easier.