Combination Knitting and 4 Reasons to Try it
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2024
- Combination knitting is a method that can be used by either English or Continental style knitters. Knit stitches are formed as expected, by wrapping the yarn counter-clockwise around your right needle. However, the yarn is wrapped clockwise when forming purl stitches.
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Introduction - 0:00
What is Western Knitting? - 0:34
What is Eastern Knitting? - 3:23
What is Combination Knitting? - 4:33
4 Reasons to Try Combination Knitting - 7:57
Final Thoughts - 10:25
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Pattern: Slipstream Cardigan - shop.thechillydog.com/product...
Yarn: HiKoo Sueño Worsted
Needles: Brittany Birch Single Point Needles
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I never knew I used combination knitting! I found that the appearance of the purl stitches is much neater and my tension more even. Thank you for the explanation
This is how I also have always knitted for 75yrs. My friends at knitting have always told I was doing it “wrong”. Results were the same.
Patricia Paulson I am interested in how the knitting is done and after having been an English Flicker all my life as that is how my mother knit, not letting go of the needle, I did the same. I learned Continental but never could get my purls in balance with my knits as I could with my English style. But I discovered Combined and my purls were now happy purls. I actually began my interest with making Entrelac and so I did not have to turn the work constantly, I knit backwards, but I didn't change hands with the work, but knitting backwards keeping the yarn in the right hand is the way the Combined stitches work. So I had to learn to do this with my Left hand and so this is how I knit Continental.
My English method is not slow as when you Flick you can zoom along but I wanted to be able to knit as fast with the yarn in my left hand so I did what I did knitting backwards and sat in front of a mirror and discovered the way they say you shouldn't do your purls makes the best looking purls. Well, I knit for enjoyment and for it looking good and if other don't like it, that is their choice to not see that the results look great and better than when I try to do it "their way".
Perhaps it has something to do with the mechanics of my hands, but it just feels more natural to me.
Yes, the knitting police has told me "You are doing it all wrong". This happened in a doctors office. So I asked if the woman was a knitter and then I asked what style she knits, she did not know, just that I was so obviously "wrong". So I knit my English Flicking and asked if that was her style, "NO!", and knit backwards in that and that was not her style either, so I knit Continental and that was not her style either. I did not do English Throwing because it is awkward feeling for me and at the time I did not know how to do Portuguese knitting. I find that one interesting but I do not care to do it for a long period of time and my neck gets "yarn burn" nor wearing a pin and damaging my clothes either.
Yes, I agree, that Combined knitting is quite practical.
Even if the Knitting Police would like you to just go away. My motto: get more done with fingers that don't get achey.
@@courag1
Whatever works for you and creates good looking knitting pieces is the “right” way! Knitting police be damned!!!🥸
Having crocheted since I was a child, when I learned to knit at the age of 64, I did not realized that crocheting was influencing me to naturally knit using the combination method. (Dyslexia also helped, haha) THANK YOU for clarifying my knitting habits as I though I was doing it wrong. Apparently there is no wrong, almost.
The best reason for doing this is understanding how your stitches lie and thus being able to "read" your knitting. Then you can work multi-colors using 1 or 2 colors in each hand and thus knitting both styles at once and creating a firm, balanced fabric with intricate color patterns. It is great for Fair-Isle knitting.
Thank you so much for this very helpful tutorial! I am a self-taught male knitter. I depend on people like you so much. Keep the advice coming.
It is so much more comfortable to do it this way, I’ve always sone it this way and didn’t know it was a combo.
Update: I never learned about twisted stitches till this week so turns out I have to modify my knitting to untwist it. This is what happens when a 9 year old teaches themselves and doesn’t seek out professional tips for 12 years 😩
The twisting of the purl stitches is fairly obvious when knitting ribbing in the round. You have twisted ribbing of one side and regular on the other side. It doesn’t bother me, so I just knit with twisted purls, they’re on the inside and it doesn’t change the appearance of the front side (in my hands at least).
But it’s interesting to learn how to not twist them.
And if I want twisted ribbing in the round I just have to knit with the inside facing me !
I’m pretty sure I do this too!
Me too Cianna! - except it's been 50+ years and many hours of trying to figure out what I'm doing 'wrong' trying to follow stitch instructions. Thank you for the vindication and the much needed insight Chilly Dog!
Combination knitting is easier for knitting in low light or with vision problems because the direction of the stitch on the needle can be felt easily and a person can knit without looking. This is especially beneficial for me when my husband and I watch TV. I can knit while not only listening to the show but while watching it. It doesn't work as well if there is a pattern to follow but on easier projects, I can literally knit in the dark!
I wish I had thought of that reason when I made this video, because you definitely can feel a difference between the knits and purls, which could make it easier to knit without watching. Happy knitting! 💖
As a self taught knitter, this video cleared up SOOOOOOOO many questions and gauge/tension/twisted stitch issues I've been having! Thank you!!!
Looks like I'm not the only person who's been doing this naturally the entire time.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one.
I do this also.
Me too, I'm self taught as well
I was taught to knit when I was seven years old and never did much of it (I found crocheting to be much easier). Then, about twenty years ago, when I was around forty, I decided to give knitting a try again because I was finding such beautiful sock patterns to knit. The only problem was the "weird" way I had learned to knit made it hard to follow instructions in books or learn from other knitters. Turns out that I learned combination knitting as a Continental knitter!
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This video explains so much! I'm a self taught, continental knitter and it turns out that I have been combination knitting from the beginning. I always wondered why I have to work twisted stitches differently for them to work out right, I thought that everyone knits this way. I thought it was normal for my knit and purl stitches to sit differently on the needle. I just did what was easier because I never knew it made a difference which way you wrap the yarn. You learn something new everyday!
Me too Heather, I learned to continental knit from Fb and do it just this way.
Same!
Me too, could never work out why twisted stitches and knit-through-back-loop just didn't work 🤣
I have found there are few people who knit this way we should start a support group. I am in a couple of knitting groups but the instructors dont knit this way so working on a project with the group is a little harder to fallow for me. I end up fiddling with things longer and getting frustrated about it
@@deleahcortes3027 Hi, there is a group on the Ravelry website for combination knitters that discusses all the pros, cons and work-arounds. Combination knitting is ABSOLUTELY the most ergonomically efficient way to create stocking-stitch, but you CAN'T use it for everything, because it doesn't always mount the stitches on the current working row correctly for what you need on the next row, for example in rib stitch: you don't want the stitches oriented differently on the next row because you will be repeating the same knit or purl above the previous one. My approach is to use different techniques to solve different problems, so the ribbing on my sock will be continental Western OR Eastern, and if my hands get tired or I get bored, I will go over to English style. The stocking-stitch foot and sole will be Continental combination knit-through-back-loop, purl-thru-front. It would be great to see a written guide to exactly what combi-knitting can and can't do. Oh well, project no. 6790372!
My Grandmother, who was born in Sweden taught me to knit as a child. She taught me to Continental knit and by your video, she taught me to combination knit. Because of this, if my hands are having a good day, I can purl faster than knit.
My grandmother who is Italian, also taught me to knit this way.
It is the same in Iran.
I think it's so much more difficult to wrap the yarn counterclockwise while purling, because you have to use either the middle or the index finger to control the working yarn.
But in the way shown in this video (combination methode), no need to use an extra finger
Yes. I knit like this. I learned from my mother I could never understand why people found purling so difficult b
My grandmother, also from Sweden, taught me how to knit when I was around 8. I found out today that it’s called combination knit what she did. She was left handed (continental) so it was a bit tricky to figure everything out and I ended up twisting my stitches without knowing. Later I switched to ”regular” purl stitching and went with it from there on. I’m so glad to have been reminded of this way of knitting that introduced me to it, I can still vividly picture my grandmother and I sitting by the candlelit table on the evening of Christmas many years ago, her teaching me something that would come to be a significant part of my life.
Its so confusing to me that all these youtubers have a million ways of purling and no one does it like me and all the knitters I know here i Denmark. We knit continental and when purling, take the string, then go opposite into the stich, go around to catch the string again and pull it through. Its fast(er?), we dont have to switch finger or yarn placement and once you learn to do it correctly, it wont loosing the stitch...
So apparently I am a combination knitter and did not realize it. Explains why that snooty woman at the yarn store said I was doing my purl stitches wrong.
I've been knitting western style and when I redo stiches and dome are turned around, I would just knit the yarn behind. But I started learning continental knitting which made me nearly impossible to purl (my fingers seemed a bit short for the technique..), so I purled western style and knitted continental style.. (haha) and avoided ribbing as much as possible.. I'm now glad to know I could do it this way!
I have been doing this since my first sweater project. It is important for knitters to learn that “front leg” means the leg closest to your working yarn, not the leg in front of the left needle. Learning to read my yarn in this way has opened my horizons and I teach all my students about this.
It also helps to keep the yarn from unspinning or overspinning. I do counterclockwise when my front leg is on the front of the left needle and clockwise when the front leg is in the back of the left needle.(Or when it needs to be un or over spun in the other direction, say between stitch markers or about 25 stitches). This keeps the yarn a consistent density becoming neither too loose nor too tightly spun.
Oh wow! This is a thing that has been really troubling me. I'm a crocheter, and for the most part I don't encounter this problem except for on Z spun yarns, but I definitely noticed when I was knitting. If I'm not mistaken things got loose. Z spun yarns tighten up when I'm crocheting, so I'm guessing that the... nope, I can't remember exactly how it goes. But I was definitely having either a too-tight problem or a too loose problem. With the yarn. Not the stitches.
Well, to be honest, I was having problems with the stitches too but that's an entirely different problem. And when I think that this combination knitting might help. Because my knit stitches were tighter than my purl stitches, not because of the way the yarn was spun but because of the wrapping, I think. This makes sense to me.
And if your point of using this method to keep the yarn from unspinning or from spinning too tight actually works, this may fix a bunch of my issues.
I wonder if I could adjust this method for crochet and get away with using Z spun yarns!? I'm going to try it.
So true! That's why many people call it the Leading leg and not the Front leg
I knit "English style" for many years and didn't enjoy it. Finally I gave in and tried "Continental" and said Wow! It seemed a lot more comfortable and faster. Then I learned Eastern purling and I use it a lot , as you said, to keep from having big stitches or holes when transitioning. Also I found I really like purling (when it's the whole back, not ribbing) the Portuguese style. It is so much faster, I use it on the "back" side of lace shawls and I fly. It's really great to have a multitude of different ways to work.
I just taught a friend how to purl Portuguese style because she always grumbles about how she hates purling. She was happily stunned because it is so much faster and easier. Happy knitting
Chris Reeske I’m a newbie knitter and knit stitch well continental style, but purling is too awkward, so for a ribbing pattern I have to set the right needle secure in my lap and work more like a lever.
In this video it showed her doing the combination in the ribbing, so I’m a little confused as to why some are saying they don’t use it for the ribbing,that it won’t come out right...Is it because they weren’t going in through the knit stitch at the bottom of needle?
I purl Portuguese style too when working a large area. It keeps my stitches tighter since I always seem to purl loosely. I do like to purl the way shown in the video as well.
Chris Reeske try Norwegian knitting combined with Continental pearling
For 14 years, I've been doing it the hard way! I'm a English knitter. Would like to become an Continental knitter. Self taught myself to knit out of a book! So proud of myself!!!!!!!
I am a continental knitter and this just CHANGED MY LIFE!!!!!! Holy buckets thank you! No more pressing the purl sitich down on anything knitted in the round. When working in the round all sts will constantly be the same! All purls facing one way and knits the other. This is awesome.
Finally I understand my natural knitting method I have used since childhood. It turns out I do the Norwegian method of purling Continental style, with the combination knitting. After watching all kinds of videos on knitting, my firm believe is that it´s the fastest way to knit. Thanks for explaining this for us. :)
I have always knitted this way and it has been frustrating for me to watch knitting videos because nobody knits this way ...now I stumble across your video and am amazed. Now I understand why I knit the way I do. Thank you.
Combination knitting is definitely not wrong, but in the US, Western knitting is customary. It's the way patterns are written how most tutorials are demonstrated. I understand how that could feel frustrating, though.
Same thing happened here😂😅
As someone who tried knitting, found it too hard, then turned to crochet, learning this and continental knitting has been a game changer! Thank you!
Wow! I was self taught and this is the way I learned. It definitely made Continental so much easier. But I had a friend tell me that it was incorrect and I have since changed to western style. I’m glad to find out it wasn’t wrong, just different!
This is how I taught myself how to knit 45 years ago. Combination knitting helps with dark yarn when it’s hard to tell whether your next stitch on the needle is a purl or a knit.
I had never thought about using combination knitting for dark yarns, but that's genius! Thanks for sharing your tip.
Thank you!!!! This will definitely solve my issue with the larger stitch at the knit/purl transition in my ribbing. This has been an issue for all my knitting life (some 60 years!) Of all the videos I've watched over the last few years addressing this issue, yours makes the most sense AND it's such an easy thing to do! No tugging, no stretched yarn because of the tugging, just a beautiful rib!
Thanks again!
Blessings!!!
This is how I've been knitting all along It comes naturally to me, it just feels right. So now I know the official term for it. So I 👋🏾 am a Combination knitter! 😊
Thank you so much! I thought I was doing it wrong but I just found out I’m a combination knitter!
Who needs more reasons to do combination knitting? That ribbing trick to tighten up the first purl stitch is reason enough! All my future ribbing thanks you.
This is how I learned to knit as a child. Grandma called it German style.
Ann McNew I leaned this way from a Japanese lady.
Same here Ann, this is how I learned it in Germany and I was taught to use the left to control the yarn, so there is no flipping and/or pushing it down with the fingertip. It is faster and I don't even have to look at it while knitting.
You still work the purl stitches counterclockwise, though, even with "German" style knitting. At least that's how we were taught at school. (Knitter from Germany here - been knitting like that all my life, and while the combination method is explained very well here it just unnecessarily complicates things, at least for me.)
What little instruction I got was from a German friend of my mum, I have been combination knitting all my life
I knit this way as well. The closet I can find to my style is Russian knitting on Instagram. It’s fast and the tension is even. Great patterns available on Instagram.
I have been Norwegian Purling for a couple months now so when I started a pair of socks using 9inch inch, I could not NPurl and had to move back to my normal purls. I didn't even realize I was Eastern Purling for the first row (because it very so much more natural) I was wondering why my stitches were twisted and realized I was Eastern Purling and decided to stick with it. I had watched this and your other tips video last year and thought if revisit the video to make sure I was doing everything right and I'm so happy your information I learned last year stuck. Love your videos. I've used them so much this past year while learning to knit.
Thanks. You have a lovely teaching voice and explained this very well. I taught myself continental knitting with RUclips videos but didn't love purling. Instinctively I felt there had to be a better way but wouldn't have been able to work it out given my skill level. So this is a great help.
It is so much easier to keep better tension on your purl stitches when combination knitting. The knitted piece looks much neater. This is the way I learned to knit/purl a long time ago from my Oma/grandma in Berlin.
Wow, I started out as a combination knitter, one day someone told me I wasn't knitting correctly and showed me the "right" way. Since I was self taught I had no idea what I was doing was right for me. Thank you for such a clear and informative video.
You make me smile! I wish more knitters accepted the idea that the "right" way isn't necessarily the ONLY way. It's useful to understand the nuances of different methods and styles because they all have their own advantages and disadvantages. Happy knitting :)
My American mother-in-law taught me to knit with the American method; however, when I was knitting in the local beauty parlor, the Polish beauticians changed me to the faster European method. I've been knitting that way for years, but I did not realize that I was knitting with the combination method. I'm so happy to have learned it and your video gave me confidence that I was doing it right. Thanks.
Most Polish knitters knit Russian (sometimes called "Eastern European") method. It's the least complicated and the fastest method.
my mother taught me to knit English style as a child an Ukrainian friend taught to knit this way, she said it is called Russian style. as a crocheter and knitter i find this method easier because i hold the yarn while crocheting and knitting the same way.
This is what I've always done instinctively. I never knew it had a name
same, i just always wrap from the outside to the inside
Same here, I learned this way from my grandma and I’ve seen a few other continental knitters do this as well
I thought this is how all continental knitters did it. Learned from my grandmother too.
FeMkE67 Me to lol ?
just seems like common sense to me.
Wow! This is the answer to my tension issues when I purl. Thank you.
I have knitted for 50 years, have just come across combination knitting whilst looking for tips for knitting with lace yarn, I decided to make a whole cardigan using lace weight yarn, the pattern is a 5 stitch moss stitch, followed by 5 stocking stitch, repeated throughout. My tension was so loose, the fabric looked too holey,, having tried combination knitting, it has tightened it up. I am so much happier to continue my project now. Normally my tension is spot on, but this lace weight yarn is something different.
Thank you for putting this information out there.
i learned to knit from a book and trial and error. this is how i knit lol, i never knew i was doing anything different. but it does explain why my ribbing is always firmer than expected.
I've just started practicing continental style knitting. I've been a English western style knitter for years. Ma'am you don't know how much this tutorial means to me. You've opened my eyes to endless possibilities of knitting. Thank you so very much.
Ive been doing this combination knitting unknowingly for years! Hah! It makes so much sense when you explain it 😍😍😍
Thank you, now I understand the difference between east and western styles. This explains that I may be a combination knitter. The thing you really clarified for me is the lead stitches for knit stitches is behind the left needle for the combination.
I've been combination knitting for years. It's so much faster than any other knitting method I have used. I knit continental combination.
Wonderful explanation. I was a lefty that taught myself to knit right handed. I am always confused which way to wrap the yarn and now I understand it!!!!
😊💕You have just made knitting even more enjoyable you explained things that is a true blessing for me❣❣❣I have been doing the combination purl stitch without a problem but the knit stitch I could only knit threw the back if I had done a purl on the previous row I did NOT know it was as simple as how I wrapped my yarn on the knit stitches. I had not ever seen that explained the way you did you made it click in for me. God Bless YOU❣❣❣❣❣❣❣ My husband just had to watch me show him several times see this is how I have been wrapping my yarn and all I had to do is this, can you see what I am showing you, you see this leg is forward in the back now this is sooo amazing and on and on. He even gave me a Kleenex I was so excited. THANK YOU THANK YOU❣💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
You made my day! I love when people get to experience those "Aha!" moments. Happy knitting! 😘
@@thechillydog You have made my knitting life so much better!!! For a couple of months I started to think I would not be able to knit any more at all. Two weeks ago I slowly started to knit again and well long story short because of you I see the light at the end of the tunnel seriously!!! Cables my be on hold for another few weeks though but I'm knitting even more because of this. Everyone that has hand injuries need to know of this method it is SOOO much easier on the hand!
I always knit in Combination ( did Not know it for the better Part of my knitting life).
If you do it, you can ribbing knit without looking, because you can f e e l If it is a knit or putl stitch!
Exactly! People have always marveled how I can knit without looking, it's because I can feel the direction of the stitch.
This is how I allways did it. Feels the most natural, east meets west.
Omg! I knew I knitted differently. People told me I just did it wrong. But I could never figure out what I was doing differently. But it was the way my mum taught me to knit when I was a about 7. Im a continental knitter & at the same time sister Celestine was making me learn the english style knitting plus crocheting because I was a figidter , I was a very anxious child & couldnt keep my hands still. It was one of the best things, they could have done for me. Its serve me well. I just cant cope with out it. Im mainly a crocheter now simply because I could not figure out what I was doing wrong with my knitting. Recently I discovered I had to change how I do yarn overs, because of my combination knitting. Now that I know what Im doing differently , I can work on correcting some of this muscle memory.. thank you.
Thank you for showing this method. I am a Danish knitter (72) who has always knitted this combination method. I find it is much easier and looks nicer, and I don’t need to look at the work, as I can feel in my fingers if the stich is a knit or purl stich that is twisted. I have learnt the purl method from both my grandmother and mother, both coming from Denmark. Very few use this method in Denmark which is a shame.
Hi there, I'd been an "English" knitter for a long time and wanted to try "Continental" knitting. It drove me a bit bonkers that my "Continental" PURL knitting took much more effort and time than did my KNIT stitches. I loved the Continental KNIT stitches so much, I thought to myself that I needed to find a way to "pick" my PURL stitches as easily and as quickly (in mirror image) as I did in my KNIT stitches...and it worked. And it looks just like your "Continental" PURL stitches. How delightful! I'd be very interested to see a video on how to manipulate the increase / Make One stitches in combination / Continental knitting. Thanks so much. You are very clear and concise - easy to follow and understand! Yours in Gratitude
My turkish mum taught me combination knitting. I thought everyone did this up until getting back into knitting a few months ago. I could not understand why it looked weird 😅 turns out it’s just a different method and I’m not delulu. Thanks for clearing it up. This video is the best explanation I’ve been able to find ❤
That’s why my stitches are always facing the other way. I learnt very young from my aunt the eastern continental knitting, I wasn’t sure if I was doing something wrong. Thank you 😊
Great video! For decades, I've been a combination knitter and have been told I do it wrong and that my stitches are twisted . . . .yet, my purl stitches untwist the knit stitches! Love this video for the clarity of the explanations and the great visual demo. I also like the explanation of Western vs Eastern . . . I never knew it had to do with how the yarn is wrapped (not which hand you hold the yarn). This has always been a speedy and fun way for me to knit. Purling is so simple and intuitive this way. Again, GREAT video!!!
Very clear description of combination knitting. THANKS!!
Thanks Chilly Dog, this was an exceptionally clear explanation of Eastern and Western wrapping. I'm a self-taught Continental-combination knitter who settled on this method because it feels the most ergonomic. Interesting to learn that it can effect gauge, although I might not want to change my style just to get to gauge.
I started knitting 30+ years ago when I was a kid. I always knit counterclockwise and purl clockwise as taught by my mother. She knitted in this way for many years too.
I've tried this, it's so much better. Thank you....it's so easy and creates a much better look.
Now, I understand my childhood default! And This has untangled so much for me. XX
Thanks for the video. I sort of happened into this style of working last year. It had been years since I'd picked up needles. I didnt have a lot of time for knitting and my old style seemed slow and my hands were getting tense and tired. So I decided to try continental (left hand holding the yarn so I wasnt letting go of the right needle every stitch). It worked well! At first I noticed my new comfy speedy pearl stitches were backwards but figured as long as they were worked with the leading edge it worked out fine. Thanks for putting this together confirming that it really does work out nicely - and for the reminder to CHECK GUAGE! I wouldn't have and just started the next project with the wool that's waiting for summer to end... so Thanks for the video.
I am taking the TKGA Taming Tension Course in preparation to take the Master Hand Knitter Course and, though I didn't realize it, I have tension problems. Turns out that combination knitting gives me more uniform stitches with less gutters. Thank you for these videos about combination knitting. They are the best explanations and clearest instructions.
I've heard good things about TKGA's master hand knitter class. Best of luck and happy knitting! 💖
I’m so pleased to see this video. My gauge is sometimes off when knitting hats. Now, I’m going to incorporate combination knitting in my rib work and hopefully this will rectify the problem and give me better results. Thank you for sharing these techniques.
Oh wauw! I used to doing my knitting using the combination.
When I moved to the west and using western patterns, I got the feeling that I did it the wrong way, so I adjusted my way of knitting, and was not contented. So I now pick up my crochet instead.
Well, I know now that I've been doing okay actually.
Thank you for explaining this 👌🌷
Not wrong, just different. 🙂
I didn't know I was doing combination knitting, until until I saw this video, that's when I found out I've been doing combination knitting all my life, and I didn't even know it, until now. thank you, your video was very informative.
I just can't believe how much this has improved my knitting technique! I am working on a pair of 2x2 rib, fold over socks, and this technique combined with the Norwegian cast on method from your other video has taken my knitting to a whole new level. I really want to thank you for creating this RUclips Channel. It is quickly becoming my go-to site for knitting instruction. Your videos are well done and very easy to follow.
I am self taught. I started as a thrower. I then learned continental and one day, out of the blue....I forgot which way to wrap yarn. I think watching different videos and not understanding some were western and some eastern, added to my memory lapse. Thankyou for helping figure out what I was doing. Which was purling the path of least resistance, haha
I worked really hard to train myself out of this. Great to know it's OK to do what comes naturally!
My friends are always amazed at how fast I can finish projects! Combination knitting is my reason
Love your explanation. I love combo knitting - faster, more options (I switch up depending on pattern), clarified for me how to read my stitches (better overall understanding). Thanks!
Very interesting. I’m not sure that getting into the “habit” of combining the two types of stitches would be easy, but I do like how it looks. This would be one to practice. Thank you, great tutorial.
Use the left hand to control the yarn and it will be even easier once you get the habit of it.
It works, I like it and I’m even knitting a bit faster. Thanks again.
I knit continental. And now I’m finding out that I instinctively do combination knitting.... had no idea! I always saw people do it the other way and I thought I was wrong.... but it’s how I was most comfortable.
Learn something new every day
Thank you!
Thank you for explaining the difference between Western and Eastern. As well as the difference between the formation of the stitch.
Clear and simple.
I also was doing combination knitting until I started knitting lace and textured stitches. I had to retrain myself to wrap the standard way to make sense of the increases and decreases without all the slipping to reorient stitches on the needles. I returned to using combination knitting for stockinette as it makes my purl rows the same tension as the knit rows, plus is much faster. Great video and explanation.
Super helpful! I've been knitting self taught for years and I was today years old when I found out that combo knitting isn't the most common way. Really good to know I can do it either way based on what I need.
I have to laugh, apparently I’ve been doing this all along. I could never understand why my stitch loops weren’t matching up. Now I know! The front leg isn’t always on top. This makes so much sense! Thank you!
I've always done it this way as well. I'm left handed, and hold it continental style, and this method is great particularly if you are doing combinations of knit and purl stitches. Makes it much easier to knit fast. I started really doing this method making one of those Noro Silk Garden scarfs where you do a 1x1 ribbing.
OMG! i've searched a lot for a video like yours which explains the combination style really well. It really cleared up my mind. People always talk about combination style as if it only exists in western way. Thank you so much for clarifying that and telling us we're NOT wrong!
Oh my! I just found out that I knit a combination knitting! That’s why I have such a hard time following tutorials on Italian bind off! Amazing! You just blew my mind girl! Thank you!
This is how I’ve always done it! Didn’t know there was a name!
I have always knit like this, that is how I learned it. And it is so much faster, than staying in one direction on both left and right stitches.
After watching 3 different sources for how to make stitches, I finally understand. Wrap around the leading leg. Well, I will watch a few more times! Norwegian, Russian, German, English... I think I was doing Russian, but kept getting twisted stitches. I do like the combination for ribbing.
Thank you - I've been wondering how to improve the "stretched out" appearance of switching between knit and purl stitches.
WOW! This is amazing and really makes it easier for me to understand as a beginner!. I am a lifelong crocheter.....
Yep! Definitely my way of knitting these last few months (40+ years of knitting experience). Sort of found out myself before I found your movie. Little motions necessary :D. The result is the same for every way we knit. No wrong or wright way, just creating beautiful things! Let's call this Australian or "Down Under" knitting, since the working yarn is always coming from below.
When I swapped to continental knitting, I automatically started doing combination knitting. When I did English knitting my work was very even but as the arthritis progressed it became hard for me to do for any period of time. Combination knitting if faster, easier on my hands, and give the even tension that I like.
Thank goodness there's more than one way to manage and manipulate our yarn and needles, especially when our bodies are resistant. Life is better with knitting! 💖💖💖
Much better. I keep looking for the best way for now as I continue to do the things I learned to love over 50 years ago.
Thank you for this extremely clear video!
I think I figured out the stance of the stitches and how to fix them, after some little knitting accident, but didn't really know that some people combine the stitches regularly. I'll have to give it a try. Your video is very clear. Thank you.
It is awesome to know so many of us were doing combination knitting!!! I don’t feel odd knitter out!
I paused this video to look up so many things - Historian Knits, combination and Irish knitting... You just provided a wealth of information. ♥️🙂
Thank you!
I love that there's always something new to learn about knitting!
Great information about the reasons to use combination knitting, thank you so much.
People tell me I 'knit funny', and this video at least partly explains it - I knit Eastern style apparently for Knit stitches and Western for Purl, having half-remembered what I was taught and then having to work it out again when I started to make proper projects. I find that when I undo a mistake where the stitches are not all knit, it's a lot quicker to undo all of them from the same side, as if they were all knit, which leaves some of the stitches twisted. You just rework them all into the leading side of the stitch, regardless of whether it's knit or purl. It's reassuring to know I've not been doing it all wrong!
Wow, I always thought I was doing something wrong but I found it easier for me! Thanks, you explained it so well.
Enlightening video! I am a combination knitter--naturally, I guess. Learned knitting as a child as soon as my grandmother was certain I was old enough to use knitting needles and not poke my eye out. She taught me knitting English style but I have always done the clockwise and counterclockwise knit/purl stitches and thought it was just due to being right-handed. RUclips and the internet are wonderful tools for needleworkers.
I've been a continental knitter for years and this is mind-blowing
Wooow now I understand the way I knit... All the time just though I was wrong but worked for me! 🤣🤣🤣👍
Thank you so much for making this video! It definitely cleared up quite a bit for me. I've crocheted for a few years. When I started learning to knit, I went for a continental style because I was used to holding my yarn similarly when crocheting, but I really struggled with the continental purling. Knitting combination has been so much easier, but I've seen people comment that it's " the wrong way ". I'm glad your video cleared those things up!
I WAS SHOWN BY MY MOTHER HOW TO KNIT. I WAS 8 YRS OLD. SHE TAUGHT ME THE WESTERN METHOD OF KNITTING. SHE WAS FROM SCOTLAND. THIS IS SO INFORMATIVE. SO MANY WAYS TO HOLD THE YARN AND WRAPPING IT AROUND THE NEEDLES.👍
Look at the efficiency of holding the yarn with the left hand and doing knitting/purling combination style. MUCH faster than any other way!
Finally someone explaines what I've been doing and thinking it was wrong. I do always knit into the back of my Twisted knit stitches, but knitting combination is so fast and I will continue to do it now knowing it is totally smart. Thank you again so much for defining this method.
Self taught here as well and apparently I do this too. Didn’t even know it was a thing lol. Thanks for the video, it explained a lot for me.
I was seriously confused why my knitting looked funny compared to others. Now I know why. I have done this all along, totally by accident because I am self-taught to knit.
Thanks for sharing how to make ribbing flawless...I’ve always hated the look on the right and do know about legs ...truly helpful.
I have always knitted the way that you are teaching. Interesting.
Wow, good to know there is a name for it. I was going this instinctively. Then I changed to knit the correct way, and my knitting became all loosie goosey. I can go back to doing this, knowing it is not wrong.
This helped me tremendously! THANK YOU! I could see what was happening and how to continue, but didn’t realize how to prevent having to adjust my stitches......plus I’m left handed and I must reverse everything in my head! “Knowledge”!!!