How to Hold Knitting Yarn: Throwing

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Christine Pachini for Expert Village and today I'm going to teach you some basic knitting techniques. The third method is called throwing and in throwing you hold the yarn loosely across the palm but you don't do any of that wrapping around the pinky or these two fingers. Loose it over the palm and hold the yarn with your thumb and forefinger and wrap and keeping a handle on the yarn with your thumb and forefinger, make your knit stitch and continue on again. Wrap and over. You're not really throwing anything although I guess the name came from just throwing this like so. Like many things in knitting, the logic is sometimes a bit flawed. So wrap under and over and you're not really holding on so much here for tension, the tension comes from the thumb and the forefinger against the needle. "