Hi, my name is Norman and I want to help you to become a better knitter. I started knitting at age 6 and haven't stopped in the past 30+ years. I run a knitting blog called Nimble-Needles.com with well over 450.000 readers per month. These days, I live in beautiful Vienna, Austria.
Here on youtube, I publish a new video every second week showing you knitting techniques, patterns, or essential tips. Often, I will also review popular knitting tools to bring your hobby to the next level. If you like what you are seeing, make sure to hit that subscribe button!
My focus is on creating in-depth tutorials that go beyond the regular explanations. I want to put you in a position where you can truly understand a technique and master all its variations and applications. I also have a second channel with shorter videos.
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Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. You’re so calme and wise. Love from Portugal 🇵🇹 ❤❤❤❤❤
EPIC THANK YOU
❤ Thank You! Excellent and very helpful video! I love your work! 😊
I competed the best of the best sets for me: absolutely adore needles by Knit Pro /Knitters Pride and I'm a big fan of Ginger line but I hate their cables so I bought cables from Lantern Moon and from now on I'm the owner of the PERFECT set :D
Happy Pride Norman 🏳️🌈 I love your videos, I am a beginner but your perfect explanations give me confidence I can get as good as you with practice! 😎
Please, please, please. Norman, I really need help with my collars for my sweaters. They are loose and terrible! Please help me with correctly picking up stitches to help me make a collar that is not huge and sloppy. You are the only one I trust on KZread to help me get the job done right, neatly, and beautiful.
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Norman can I knit German short row with rib? Thanks
Great tips! I find circular needles are much easier than straight when teaching someone to knit.
❤😊Thank you so much!😊❤
Thank you for making this video, i just have one question. Why do you use both the needles at the same time in the beginning of your tutorial 03:39? Can i use only one?
0:27 Norman, good morning! I own a set of Kollage interchangeables. They are very nice to knit with. They come with two sets of cables in 3 lengths, both plastic. One set rigid, one set memory free on swivel connectors. They do snag a little at the connection point and can be on the noisier side. However, I do like that the company employs a lot of disabled people to produce these sets. Tips are blunt, so not the best for lace, but very fast.
You are the very very best thank you from bonny Scotland ❤
Thanks, Norman. Now I know how missoni pattern are made :)
heh. No, the standard missoni pattern is much simpler than that. It's just pairing 2 increases with 2 decreases. So like : *k5, k2tog, k1, ssk, k5, yo, k1, yo* Repeat 10 times with each color.
A 40min review of stitch pick-up techniques FOR FREE. This is really super-useful -- thanks for this video! I was also wondering where you were from ... until I saw the Lamy Safari. Then I knew you were either German or Austrian. 🤣🖋
Heh. Tho my about section on my blog actually should be up to date if you have more such question 😅
I've knitted old school for years, I can't do this to save myself!
Hmm..do consider that it takes 10 times as much effort to unlearn something than it is to learn
I’m an English knitter, but I use continental for color work. Can’t begin to thank you enough for these fantastic videos to improve my continental technique!
🤯 I'm going to have to watch this a few dozen more times!!
Heh. The video is there to stay ❤️🧶
Thank you for this excellent tutorial!
You are very welcome 🙏
Ok. As someone who taught themselves how to knit… I’m sure you would be just as confused about how I manage to knit as I am right now watching you knit… my brain is having a damn meltdown trying to figure this out. Everything made sense till you started to actually cast on 😂😂😂
Maybe watch my tutorials on how to knit in the round and joins things in the round first, then. Take one step at a time and I'm sure you'll manage 🥰
At 10:00 you recommend using a travelling loop. Does it matter how many stitches are left on the needle? And also hoping you can explain why you put a stitch marker when you start the travelling loop? 😊 thank you!
To use as an orientation where the round starts. You can no longer use the gaps for that
Thanks for this comparaison of different increases. I learned a lot. 🙏
Happy to hear that Nicole. Always lovely to read a familiar name here in the comments 🥰
Happy pride! Thank you again for your instruction!!🌈🎉
Happy pride month & you are very welcome 🙏
❤I love the pride flag! I am proud to be me and to know you. Thanks for yet another fantastic lesson, Norman.
It's your deeds that matter, never the body you were given or whom you love 🥰🏳️🌈
You're amazing Norman! How did you learn all these techniques?
Books, internet, friends, and a loooot of trial and error 😎
I always wish you knit "normally," instead of continental, even though I get it's you're preferred way. It's just so backwards compared to the common style and it feels impossible to figure out what you're doing. Am I missing something that would make it easier to translate? I can't remember what it's called by the way, might be English. Every other knitting youtuber I watch knits like that but none of them have the extensive knowledge you do or the skill to clearly explain it. I've also tried knitting in continental because of you, thinking it'd be more efficient, but I knew I'd wreck my wrist with that method since I had to swivel it for each stitch. It felt like I was asking for pain, and it was so awkward like I had no control, probably because I'm right-handed. Crocheting feels like a nightmare too because it's also backwards like that. Knitting the common way never felt awkward to me, not even when I knit my first row ever, so I doubt it will be a "just get used to it" sort of thing.
Hallo, ich bin so glücklich das ich dich heute gefunden habe. Ich schaue sehr gerne dein Video. Du bist so ein netter Kerl. Du erklärst alles so ruhig und mit sehr viel Geduld. Ich stricke auch sehr gerne. Häckeln tue ich auch. Schade das ich in Deutschland bin und nicht in Amerika. Sonst hätte mit dir gerne jeden Tag stricken. ☺️❤️ Ich wünsche dir einen schönen Abend noch, und bis bald ❤❤
Ich wohne sowieso in Österreich und nicht Amerika 😅
This pattern is so beautiful! I casted on my first hand towel with your pattern and I really love it 🥰🧶
Thanks!
Oh wow! Thank you for supporting my work 🥰❤️🧶
The more I learn the more I appreciate how little I know. Thanks.
Heh. Well, I, too, continuously learn new things!
Looking forward to seeing the video, my good teacher
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This is a great way to knit the German short row. Thank you so much
12:46 Longtail cast on, das haben wir in der Schule gelernt, und nach über 50 Jahren ohne Stricken habe ich das wieder aus meinem Hirn herausgekramt, ganz automatisch. Das Video hat mir aber bewusst gemacht, wieviele verschiedene Maschenanschläge es gibt, uff. Den italienischen werde ich bei meinem nächsten Sockenprojekt versuchen, denn er soll sehr elastisch sein, habe ich verstanden. Auf jeden Fall danke für all die wertvollen Videos, die du uns zur Verfügung stellst!
Ja, der ist sogar so elastisch, dass du oft ne nadelstärke runter gehen musst
Hi Norman, thanks for a very good overview of increases and decreases. One more thing that is very different is that it is possible to decrease 2-3 stiches at one go. I do not aware of any increase that allows this.
Look up stacked increases (i have a tutorial here). It's certainly possible
@@NimbleNeedles thank you Norman will check it out.
Ive been looking everywhere for someone who knits the same way I learned! I just wanted to learn how to purl again cause I forgot. I learned how to knit several years ago and my teacher also taught me purl but not much so I’ve forgotten. Thank you so much! I know how to purl as well as knit the same way!
I was about to start a new raglan sweater and i was thinking about how to make nice increases!! its like you read my mind Norman!
Heh. Well, with almost 200k subscribers the chances are pretty high that I "read" someone's mind. Still, happy it came at the right time
@@NimbleNeedles Haha very true!!!
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I have been trying to make a earcover without a pattern. I used kll and krl as all the other beginner patterns I tried using, without understanding what to expect. Your comprehensive comparison helps me a lot in understanding which method would go better with my own design for the project, and makes me more confident in my choice. Thanks always!!
Awesome! That was the plan ❤️🥰🧶
I have now watched two of your videos to learn a couple of techniques for a new pattern I am using. I have to say, you are an excellent teacher. I love your videos. Thank you for making two completely foreign concepts clear and precise for me!
Hank you, Norman. This was an amazingly detailed, high level look at increases and decreases. Your explanations provide such insight into these stitches. I will have to visit this video often.
Very happy to hear that. Producing this video was a bit of a "brainfuck" 🙈🙈🙈
Saving this to watch in the future as all your videos are great!
Great video, clear explanations. Love your work, Norman!
Thank you so much, Norman! This is what I needed to help me walk through my bunnies and cats =^.^= . They look adorable but sometimes the holes where I can see the stuffing drive me crazy. I just kind of make a "patch" to cover the larger holes sewing a make-do stitch after it is stuffed but I know this is not the best solution and just a crutch. I will try some of those increases to see which one I like better next project. Love U! <3
For stuffies i typically almost exclusively fo kll. Tho, bar increases can be helpful if you need to attach something at a very precise point
Ooohhhh, woooow, I am a great fan of your channel! And this videooooo is AMAZING🎉🎉🎉🎉
Happy to hear that 🥳🥳 sadly...it's summer already and few ppl are knitying/watching
Hi Norman, This is an excellent video. I enjoy them all. Thank you for passing on your skill. Would you consider making a video doing increases and decreases in cables to smoothly transition to ribbing.
I am not sure I understand that. Cables ARE ribbing?
@@NimbleNeedles Say you are starting with a 2x2 ribbing as in a cuff… how would you smoothly transition that into a cable pattern without disruption. Either going from the ribbing into the cable or vice versa. I’ve seen sweaters where there are “off stitches” in that transition and ones that are better made where the pattern flows smoothly from the cable to the cuff. I hope this makes sense.
KLL vs KLR: I have always used KLL on the left and KLR on the right. I agree that the longer arm looks better that way. I had a lot of increases under my belt but had not seen the hitch stitch. Very neat.
Yeah, that's a fun one!
Such great advice at the end! I have been using a plastic shoe box to hold my current projects and my needles. I own my first pair of metal straight needles, a set of Knit Picks interchangeable needles for mostly worsted yarn projects, and a tiny set of Chicago needles for sock yarn projects. I have a small pouch with zippered plastic sleeves for additional sizes of needle cords, plus one metal tin (Altoids mints) to hold a few of the notions I frequently use. I pretty much have all I need here. When I started to think about getting a project bag with storage, I searched and saved items but none of them spoke to me enough to switch. I'm glad I didn't buy anything else because I think this current setup suits me fine. I keep the shoe box next to my spot on the couch where I prefer to knit and pull it out as needed. When it's not in use, I close it up and put it away. It's great.
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I will use this❤ I first look to you when I need a hint or have a question. Shared you with many knitting friends.
I appreciate that 🥰🧶