Knitting “The Continental Way”
The Easy Way, Denise’s Way
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Casting On For beginners, I recommend using a worsted weight, light colored yarn. In our store we use “Encore” by Plymouth Yarn Company and bamboo knitting needles. The bamboo knitting needles are light weight and they feel very good in your hands. The stitches stay on the needle and will not slip off. They are sold in different grades of quality. “Addi” bamboo knitting needles are the best bamboo knitting needles on the market. Sometimes when you cast on you will let the left hand go and you will lose the grip of how to hold the yarn in your left hand. It is perfectly alright. All you have to do is: Pick up the knitting needle with your right hand, making sure that the cast on stitches are facing down. Two strands of yarn will hang down. One of them is the tail and the other is the yarn from the skein. Make sure that the tail of the yarn is closer to you and now pinch the thumb and the index finger of your left hand together and place them between two hanging strands of the yarn. With your ring finger and the pinky, grab two hanging strands and then open your thumb and index finger wide.
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About the Book
Continental knitting is a technique that is admired by everybody but feared by most. This instructional book will show how easy and logical it is to transform from crocheting to knitting the continental way. Imagine not needing to sew garment pieces together! Brrr! Sewing! The crochet hook and a slipstitch (referred to as a chain stitch) would be the quickest technique to accomplish this. “The Continental Way” is faster, more accurate, and easier on your hands and wrists. Knitting “the Continental Way,” as Denise would say, is the only way!
About the Author
Denise Mazal Resnerova is the only Czech in the United States who has created a magical knitting shop with a twist. She has, over the past twenty-five years, touched hundreds with her unique personal ideas and supportive teaching. Coming from Prague to Texas was a lifelong journey. During that time, she had to make several major decisions. She was only nineteen with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. With one foot out, she was ready to go and participate in rowing in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, the first year for women to compete in that sport. Fortunately, or not, that would have taken her to Canada; she would not be here, and her story would be quite “different.” At that young age, she felt that the entire city of Prague belonged to her! Prague was her home, her inspiration, her everything. Every day, walking to work, she was hopping from blue cobblestone to blue cobblestone, skipping on the white ones, crossing Wenceslas Plaza and the Old Square Plaza, humming melodies of Johann Strauss’s waltzes. Happy, happy she was. Then one day, her employer at work had to pick one out of the four-person office to join the Communist Party. Unfortunately, she was the best pick for him. Young, full of energy, and enthusiastic was she. When he announced the news, it was a black day for her. She did not want to be involved in the party. Communism had taken everything that her parents had worked for all their lives. She did not know what to do. Everything in her life seemed to have come to an end. A year later and after a long struggle to obtain a visa, she got an airline ticket marked “Prague–Frankfurt” and a train ticket marked “Frankfurt–Baden-Baden–Paris.” Her lifelong journey had begun.