knitting and purling the "wrong" way?

I started a project today (yes, I'm still a beginner) and I noticed while I was knitting a stockinette stitch an unusual pattern while I threw the yarn clockwise instead of the way advised in the book,

Might be worth a look, as it turned out slightly different and a band of this in the middle of a stockinette stitch might be all the design you need for a project.

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Mystified One
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Some folks call that "combination" knitting. When the stitch is mounted correctly on the left-hand needle the right "leg" will be forward. Combination knitters tend to purl such that the left leg is forward when the stitch next presents itself. As long as you are aware of doing this and compensate for it by knitting into the correct leg of the stitch you'll be fine. As you become more adventurous you'll find patterns in which your mis-mounted stitches may become aggrevating so now is a good time to train yourself out of this habit.

The bottom line, however, is: if what you're doing works and you like the end product you aren't doing it "wrong", just differently from most of the rest of us.

There are books - dozens, maybe hundreds - devoted to patterns using twisted stitches and twisted travelling stitches. My favorite is a collection of three volumes collectively titled _Bauerliches Stricken_ by Lisl Fanderl. The text is in German but an English translation of the chart symbols is included with the books.

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Wooly

Well, kind of. In combined knitting stockinette still turns out "untwisted" because "we" (yeah, I do that... I taught myself) knit and purl differently (knit thru the back of the loop because that the one closer to the tip of the needle in combined knitting and purl thru the front of the loop but wrapping the yarn differently.. well, actually not at all, you just pull it thru, so there's no twist in the stich.) If you combine the combined purl and the regular knit stitch you end up twisting the stiches, same if you combine the combined knit with the regular purl stitch.

I agree :-) I have learned how to knit "propperly" because in some cases combined method doesn't work (circular knitting) or at least not so well..

take care! Nicole

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NL

Does she give any history of the patterns or the method?

=Tamar

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Richard Eney

Maybe. I'll try to sit down with the books in the next few days and wade through some of the text. My colloquial German has never been good (not enough exposure) but my technical German scrapes along pretty well with a dictionary. I'll let you know.

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