When doing half-twisted rib, do you knit the knit stitches through the back loop on the right side (purl as normal), and the other way round on the wrong side rows: that is purl through back loop, knit as normal? Or just knit the wrong side without any back-looping at all?
I’ve been back-looping the knit stitches on the right side and the wrong side for years, leaving all the purls ‘normal’, But of course that means the knit stitches on the right side only look twisted every other row.
Since you want the twist to show on the right side, I would think you’d knit through the back loop on the front, and PURL through the back loop on the back.
Thanks; that 's what I’ve been doing on my latest project, 'cos it is logical. Yet for years I followed an instruction in a Sasha Kagan book, which said knit through the back of the knits, no mention of the purls. I did it on both right and wrong side, and only recently noticed that the knit stitches were twisted only every other row!
For standard half-twisted rib (worked flat to create twisted knit columns on the right side), knit stitches through the back loop on Right Side rows (Ktbl) and purl stitches normally. On Wrong Side rows, knit stitches normally and purl stitches through the back loop (Ptbl). This ensures only the knit columns on the right side appear consistently twisted, as the wrong Official Site side “back-looping” is applied to the purl stitches that become the untwisted purl columns on the right side.