Eastern Brioche/Fisherman’s?

Hello everyone, I just recently joined this community and have a question about eastern knitting brioche. I am trying to understand how to knit this without twisting my stitches but just can’t seem to (see link to tutorial below). I have to wrap the yarn differently than in the tutorial and it seems to end up with twisted knit stitches. Any advice or tutorials that show how to do these types of stitches with an eastern mounted stitch? Thank you!!

Hi and welcome to KH. If I understand what you’re asking I think this video might help.

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This looks very close, though it looks like the knitter is going through the left leg in their knit stitches? Is that still correct if the leading leg is the right leg (on the back side of the needle)? I’m playing around with this right now, the video is definitely helpful!

I wish I could offer real help. I don’t knit combined or Eastern European so I’m only going on what I’ve read and seen. I would expect the leading leg to be on the right and in back. Your leading leg is the one that doesn’t twist the stitch whether it’s in front or in back so whatever someone else does what you have on your needles is what matters.

My knitting eccentricity is Norwegian purling because IMO leaving the yarn in the back makes sense; less movement of yarn and fingers, more even tension for me, and it’s easier on my hands. That means I do some things differently than ‘normal’ but we know about normal knitting … there’s no such thing.