How do you knit (or crochet)?

As Tereza Okava suggested, I am starting this topic to see how many different ways people knit or crochet.
When I knit I tuck the right hand needle under my arm to keep it still. This way, only my forefinger moves to knit or purl a stitch which makes me quite a fast knitter although not as fast as Hazel Tindall who you can see on YouTube. I don't think my speed has increased since I was in my 20s when we all used to knit in our breaks at work and one of my colleagues once asked if I was knitting a stitch every time I moved my finger. Yes, was the answer. Not everyone was impressed and another colleague said to me that the way I knitted was fast but she knitted to relax. My son thought it amazing that I could knit without looking at what I was doing when I looked up at him to answer a question.
One friend learned to knit from a book (this was pre internet and YouTube) and was told by an experienced knitter that she was purling wrongly - passing the yarn the wrong way over the needle. As she was already half way through making a jumper she continued until it was finished and it didn't look strange.
I learned to crochet from a book as, although all my mum taught me to knit, her crocheting skills have never gone beyond making a chain stitch. Although I can follow patterns in crochet, knitting is still my first love and if anyone waants to be bored, just get me talking about it. Heaven to me is a yarn shop.

I learned the English knitting as a kid and it's hard to switch to the continental way. Every time I have to watch youtube and relearn the technique. So I just stick to what I am used to even though it's slower.

I haven’t in years, but thinking of taking it up again. I went through a time about 10-12 years ago I made hats and booties and little toy animals for all the babies I knew. Got busy with other things and didn’t get back to it. It would be a better evening hobby than playing phone games as I’ve been doing lately.

I knit, but I am horrible at it. I find it interesting that I was taught by a blind woman who used her fingers as knitting needles.

I learned continental style in school in the 1970s and I am quite fast. I have added throwing English style to my repertoire for stranded (multi-coloured) knitting so I can hold one colour in each hand. I am always on the lookout for new techniques and tweaks but my general knitting style will not be touched.

My current go-to resource is a relatively new German YouTuber with his English channel Nimble Needles. He has a good teaching style.

Ara Murray wrote:, her crocheting skills have never gone beyond making a chain stitch.

That's me!!

I learned a chain stitch in grade school, just enough to make bracelets for everyone I knew. (Do all girls have that phase?  My daughter's in it right now and she doesn't wear bracelets but she has dozens..)
Anyway, this winter in the Midwest has been horrid, polar vortex here, black ice there, and I decide that a friend of mine needed a custom hat to keep him especially warm.  I found a mediocre written tutorial about "magic circles" that are just cool mathematics and then have chain stitched 3/4 of the way to an entire hat!  I apparently "pencil grip" crochet, but I didn't know there were styles.  It's not pretty, but it's going to be functional, and it seems like all the books use shorthand without explaining what the shorthand means. I hate trying to watch a video to learn; I want a book or a person sitting next to me.

Anita Martin wrote:My current go-to resource is a relatively new German YouTuber with his English channel Nimble Needles. He has a good teaching style.

He's got a great website too-- https://nimble-needles.com/knitting-techniques-library/

I apparently knit continental/russian, although since i'm left-handed everyone just assumes it's some backwards silliness.
for years i wondered why certain stitches just never came out right, til i realized i was knitting into the back loops instead of the front loops and doing combination (eastern vs western, apparently? never really got a good explanation. this is what happens when you teach yourself to knit using books in japanese without any actual real people contributing). to this day i prefer to knit into the back loops, and adjust the increase/decrease methods if necessary to make it all look right, it works for most everything but brioche....