There's been some discussion on the knit list about how people hold their needles when knitting... apparently some hold their needles in the same way they hold a pencil to write. I tried it (since I couldn't imagine...) and simply can't do it !

I knit with the right needle pinched between the pad of my first finger and thumb, and the left needle between my left thumb and about halfway down my first finger, with the yarn lying across the base of my fingernail, over the next 2 fingers and wrapped around my little finger.

Oh, and continentally.

I seem to have developed a habit of pushing the left needle with the tip of my right first finger out of the stitch... I have to really think about it and have the stitches squished up towards the tip of the left needle in order to just slide the stitch off and onto the right needle. Which is all fine and dandy unless I'm working with the little 2mm needles, in which case my finger starts having a dent in it...

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