thank you...and thank you for understanding that we all don't have a lovely Norwegian mother or grandmother to ask these questions.

I love you guys. Watching your videos is like sitting down with best friends and knitting. You encourage and teach without talking down to us or acting like our questions, or problems, are dumb and unimportant. Thank you. And, if you guys ever come out with a shirt or sweatshirt that says, "It's not rocket science, it's just knitting" I will be one of the first to get one!

"It's not rocket science, It's just knitting." had to laugh and it helped me to relax about being a beginner again... I was feeling like such a failure and now, I've finished a few small projects with a few mistakes. I didn't rip them up... Just laughed at myself and finished the project. Beauty marks, I call them. Thanks for the loving and informative videos. Because of you, I won't give up this time. I'm having fun. Thanks, Lynn

So glad to know that this twisting is normal. I was thinking I was the only one this happens to and decided to search KZfaq for the solution. You guys make me feel so much better about the “issue” that I am not going to fret any more. When the balls get twisted, I will just stop, untwist them patiently and look at the work to see just how worth it it really is. And it’s always worth it! Thank you!

thank you for letting me know my twisting and untwisting was all normal. Thought I was doing something wrong. lol

No more Twisting the night away for me! lol Blessings!

Oh...I do admire guys who knit and/or crochet.

Oh my gosh, you two are adorable. Love to see guys knitting and being so successful with it. Good job!

Hahah the unraveling of the woll made me laugh Carlos, that would be so me!

i need a tshirt that says "it's not rocket science...it's just knitting." lol

So simple but a fantastic “aha!” Moment for me. Thanks

lol got to love the "brutal way"

Hello Arne & Carlos, hope you're well. I came across you guys quite by accident when I was looking for a special book on World of Books. I then bought and downloaded your book of 55 Christmas Balls to Knit Patterns from Kindle and also found you on KZfaq. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for making these videos. I learned knitting during my school days from a close cousin of mine. My late Grandma Violet was very Crafty but she never knits or crochet, late Grandma Theresa had a stroke in her early Fifties, so I didn't have any Grandmas to teach me to knit or crochet like other lucky people... so I'm grateful to you both for taking the time to make your amazing videos to show and teach us the 'how to knit..etc.'. I knit the old fashion way (right-handed knitter) and I learned that, in order for the balls of yarn to not tangle, I have the main colour ball on my right (yarn above my right index finger) and the changing colour on the left ( yarn below my right index finger) holding both yarns at the same time, so that I can change the colours easily without the tangles and tight tension, hope you know what I mean and hope this helps. Thank you and have a lovely day.

I discovered your channel not quite two months ago, and I'm so thankful for it. I know I'm not saying anything new that you haven't heard many times before, but you guys are an absolute gem. And you compliment each other so well - a great pair! Beyond the wonderful tutorials, thank you for also giving us a glimpse into your world, and into your beautiful home and garden.

"This is a little bit big...." Love it! lolol

Haha, I learnt to do all that on my own. It comes pretty naturally actually. I also learned to keep my thread on my non-purling hand from this video, very interesting. Tusen takk!

No one likes twisted balls! Thank you, you handsome sweet men! I just started my first colorwork project and Arne's way helps my method quite a bit!

I have used both tricks so many times since seeing this the first time. Just popping in to say thank you. Your tricks are magic!

I have to say, you must think we are all so stupid 🤣 I was almost in tears from the twists, I love using lots of colours but, I thought to myself “there is NO way advanced knitters are running into this issue” Thank you, thank you times a thousand. I have been twisting the colours each stitch, rather than just twisting at the switch, and carrying it! As for untwisting, I’ve spent hours. I mean HOURS, untwisting from the other end instead of turning my work upside down & letting it untwist. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Thank you guys. SO much for making this video-it’s such common sense but I guess us new knitters just lack that in knitting 😂 I do at least!

Love that sweater, Arne. Good tips!

Thanks for another amazing little tutorial! U two make things so easy ...I cud watch u all day long.....

Nice tip and comes at a time that I need it. Thank you Arne and Carlos.

This video is everything! Soooo helpful. I am relearning to knit, in Norwegian style. I bought your Lykke mitten pattern and have started it. This method of picking up the two colors in turn is so simple and wonderful. Thank you! Very well demonstrated. :)

So glad I found this channel! I am back into knitting, thanks.

You two are awesome! Thank you!

Thanks for the down to earth way of keeping our yarn untwisted!

Great video. Great lighting and camera shots of the knitting. 👏👏👏👏👏

Arne and Carlos, so enjoying your podcasts! While we're in COVid isolation now, I do enjoy your clear explanations. And you have fun!

Arne & Carlos, You guys CRACK ME UP! :D

Love u guys , love all your videos. I Learn a lot, specially how to do knitting. Thank you.

So brilliant and so simple! I’ve watched three videos this morning and have learned so many simple but effective things!

this is perfect for what i'm knitting right now. will practice. thanks.

You guys are fantastic..I thourly enjoy every video...this one made me smile!

Thanks for this. Both of you. For your techniques, but even more for your sense of humor! Looking foreward to meet you in Koln, Germany end of March! Untill then! Hugs from Jo An, Wolhalla, Netherlands

Arne, you are brilliant!

Very helpful. Working up my courage to try color work knitting!

LOVE Arnes cardigan !!

Arne and Carlos. Thank you for your tutorials. Thanks to your tutorials I have taught myself how to knit Scandinavian style and I am loving it. I have tried other methods (i.e., Peruvian, Continental, etc) and none seemed comfortable. However the Scandinavian came quite natural and I have not had trouble with the tension. I already bought three of your books. Cannot wait to finish the sweater I am working on to begin on a slipper and then to one of the dolls from your dolls book. They are all beautiful!!! Do you think you will be making a tutorial on how to knit intarsia using the Scandinavian method? thank you!!!! Raúl

Thank you guys for all your videos. You've rekindled my interest in knitting, and I've gone sock crazy.

You make me laugh so much - thank you - its true, it's only knitting...... i was watching T.V, knitting, following a chart and reading subtitles !!!! Looked down and what a tangle - the 'Carlos method' came into play..... ..spinning around and around, sometimes it's the only way!💖💖💖

Thank you so much for all your help. God bless you both

Hah! I've done that where you held the skeins in the air and let the project hang and untwist. I stand on the couch so I'm taller and can untwist more length, lol.

I love this! It drives me crazy when I do intarsia knitting how twisted I can get the yarn occasionally.

OMG thank you so much!! I've been nothing you Xmas balls and thought there should be a better way to handle the twisting!!

Ahhhhhh 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 can’t believe how easy THANK YOU 🙏

Thank you very much for this. 💗💗💗💗

Thank you! This is assuring that I'm not knitting wrong per se, but I was unaware about how to manage my yarn. What encouraging news to a new knitter!

Carlos! That’s how I untwisted my balls last night! Thank you both for these tutorials, they are very helpful 😊

This is exactly how I untwist my yarn, thank you for the tip.

I love your videos guys :)

Ah! I never knew that this untwisting style is uncommon. I always follow the Carlos untwisting style. :)

Love you guys!

You make knitting simple and fun! No more twisted balls!

Thanks for showing how to do this.

God I've got such a crush on you two! 😀 Love the video and the innuendo LOL!

Thank you guys!🥰❤

Thank you now I have new mantra, No need to get my knickers in twist just because my balls are. Xx

Very helpful! 😊

I just use two bowls, one for one color, one for the other. It helps tremendous

Love this video!

Wow 🤩

Also love his cardigan!!

Thank you!

Thank you for this video it was very helpful. Thanks again.

Good job not giggling, guys!! :) Loved the tutorial - you should do a knitting retreat somewhere! That would be so fun and informative!

Arne is so adorable.

Some videos on yutube tell me to always pick up the new yarn from under the current yarn, which does twist the yarn. Now I see that it does not matter if you pick up the new yard from under or from over the current yarn. This does simplify life, as I am starting to do color knitting.

Thank you For sharing even I can also take this ideas for crochet You are ADORABLE GUYS.

I don't believe Arne when he says "It's not a problem," The hysterical laughter after tells the real story

Very good ,thank You !

Just did the yarn trick.....letting the project hang in the air....a little...two partner deal with my best friend who treats me like a princess....deb

Voilà 😊 Thanks a lot !!

Ok I needed this reassurance 🧶🧶🧶❤️❤️❤️🇳🇴🇺🇸❤️

Thanks for the tip. I used to let it tangle until it became too tight, then I would just hold onto the two balls of yarn, let the knitted piece hang loose, and it will unwind itself in a minute by spinning around and around.

thanks I do have a twisting problem sometimes! Will try what you say!

Thank you.

The yarns with your names on them are gorgeous and the patterns are unique and beautiful. Do you two actually design the patterns that come from these yarns? How does that work?

thank you 😁

Taking an extra second to say...Arne the sweater you are wearing is amazing! Did you make it? Awesome choice for this video.

Hi Carlos and Arne, when dropping to untwist yarn, this works ok with yarn like Noro Ito. Unfortunately with single ply merino like Malabrigo Worsted it pulls the work too tight. I have tried the way Arne keeps the yarn in the left hand and although ackward at first I have gotten better at it and it turns out great! Love your videos!

thank you ... would this work in m y situation? I am using double strand from same ball to use up my stash for a striped project. The twists are unmerciful and quickly turn into knots if I am knitting very quickly and don't notice. I have had to invent untwist maneuvers which are very clumsy and awkward, but I do want to knit 2 strands to use up my stash; some I am just doing with 2 balls of different colors, but I don't really grasp what you are showing. I will rewatch a few times. I only knit continental wound around left index finger. Liked and sub for sure! Bravo!

I'm pretty good with keeping the 2 colors not too twisted, but is there a way to control the balls, themselves to prevent the yarn from kinking, as you have some major kinks, there. I think it's sometimes called biasing. Thanks! Really enjoy your videos.

Hi Arne & Carlos! could any one of you please demonstrate how to knit with colours the english way and how to avoid the twisting while doing so. Many thanks to you both for All your knowledge you share with us.

I’m knitting with 5 colors. 😅 it’s a bit of a mess but not too bad. Thanks for the tips!

I just had to laugh! I'm so glad that i already just grab my ball and watch my project spin! lol.... But that doesn't work on large projects to well.. lol... seriously tho.... would Arne's way be the way for 3 or more colors of yarn to prevent twisting? ...I've been just stopping and untwisting the strands myself. Than you guys for sharing your talents with us!

I have a quedtion please. You addressed the dual twisting up of the two colors together however, how do you deal with each individual color? They were both severly twisted up onto themselves. How does that occour or why and please, I would like to prevent that from happening to my yarns. I"ve noticed some people seem to add a twist to their knitting by just knitting. While others do not. This is obvious when you are say at a knitting gethering by the multiple difference in results styles etc. Great learning experience. Very exciting. All the varieties of peoples needle types, cords, yarns, color ccombinstions, techiques color mixtures sampeling its a creativuty party if images my mind will forever be replayning in various situations making creativity more genierious. As artists I think it is a creativity encouragement but a necessity for a life long artist and instructor. For me it is imperitive to experiece teaching and taking classes with others to see all the different approaches when everyone that starts with the same basic matetials to create say the same object, pattern, or stitch. I find it helps me and really helps my students,So important I just Love it! Thank you. I hope you get an opportunity to approach this question also. Some get twisted others don't even using the exact needle cord and yarn set up. I'm talking abuot people who use the same cord and needle certaintly. As we know there are some cords that don't ever twist up onto themselves like ChiaGoo cords, which I love because I have a twist to my knitting just from knitting. Also another brand has a connector piece for the cord that attatching needle size, they are some type of Hiya Hiya interchangable needles when converting I believe to a different size cord using a larger or smaller interchangable needle set. I'm not certain of the direction up or down as I don't have them. But a friend does and she just adores them.

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What about the floats on the back? if I just drop one colour and knit with the one that is active in the pattern. Then when I swap over to the other colour and just pick the next one up, will there not be to long floats on the back ?

Do you have any suggestions for how to keep yarn organised for two at a time, toe up socks of two colours? Right now I'm keeping one of the balls in the already knitted toe, but I'm still getting quite a mess at times with four yarns going at once.

you two are so funny love your cardigan tried to send you a photo of the one i just finished for your thought but not sure if i could.kind regards. ps my tec skills are rubish.

Thank you! Have you ever used a knitting thimble? I just learned about them and it seems to keep the yarn untangled as well

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Hello, thank you for the great videos. Would you please consider doing one on how to untwist your yarn when working with 3 colors? I can't find a single one on KZfaq. Thanks!

oh how funny. I knit the same way you do and its something I developed myself .after watching continental knitters stretch their fingers out it looked so unnatural too me so being a chrocher first I just naturally bring my work close to my fingers. and would you believe I am a full blooded norwegion and am just starting fair isle. would love to see more beginner patterns for fair isle on utube.

Because I enjoy the reverse side patterns in twisting and layering of the yarn, reversing the twist as in example 1 would be verboten. I’ve always done example 2. It’s a nice thing to do as it gives me a break ... I can knit for hours on end, so, taking a slow but short break is ALLLLLLLways a welcomed thing!!

Is there an easy way for the opposite please? Been given a garment that was made up of 2 years knitted together. I am trying to unravel this but what a nightmare? Is there any tips for unravelling the 2 knitted together yarns? Hope that makes sense?

I'd love to know the title of the book you are using!

I'd love to know the best way to keep crochet thread from twisting while I'm using it!!

That’s what I tend to do with loom knitting. Same thing.