increases for a lefty knitting continental?

[bremen]

i am knitting my first longies, and am having trouble with the kfb, or bar increases.
all of the youtube videos and online help i can find are for people kntting english, and i just can't figure it out. the written help i can find is for righties, and i just can't mentally flip it to my left hand style.
can anyone help me do some bar increases left-handed kntting continental?

i appreciate all help, links, anything.

thank you so much!

[cristeen]

check out knittinghelp.com They have videos for all the increases and decreases, and I think they're all Continental.

She says early on in the instructions on knitting that if you're a lefty to hold a mirror up to the video window to see it left handed.

[Sillygoose]

I'm not left-handed, but I am a Continental knitter by preference (although I can do both). I'm also a knitting teacher.

I always try hard to get my lefties to learn Continental -- not left-handed Continental, just the regular kind. I find that Continental knitting lets you favour your left hand or your right hand as you wish (although in my view, the left hand is doing the most precise work, since it's controlling the yarn).

I don't teach anyone to do anything backwards, or in a mirror, or any such nonsense. Why would you make such trouble for yourself? If you can do the same right-to-left knitting as everyone else, and therefore reliably follow the same instructions as everyone else, why would you make it harder by including a spatial transformation in the already complicated task of following a pattern? That strikes me as the sure path to poking the needles into your eyes in frustration right before you throw the whole mess in the garbage.

My further recommendation is a sort of conceptual one, and it's just something to try and see if it works for you. Stop looking at the hands. Stop looking at the precise motions they're making. Look at the yarn and the needles, and then figure out how to get your hands to make that happen. When watching another knitter demonstrate something (either in pictures, on Youtube, or live), concentrate on the knitting, not the knitter.

Like I said -- take it for what it's worth.

[courtenay_e]

Cat Bordhi knits continental, and it makes me SO happy, because watching people knit American/English makes my brain hurt when I'm trying to learn something! You can find her on youtube as well as on her own site. I found her when I needed to be able to visualize knitting on circular needles and googled it on youtube. There she was, knitting the way I learned. It was like coming home!

I think that you should be able to find something by her that shows you how to do what you're looking for.