Well there isn’t a “how not to knit” section… :mrgreen: so it looks like I’ll post it here.
I discovered last night, almost by accident, that I have been knitting backwards–namely, wrapping the yarn clockwise rather than counterclockwise! (Oddly enough, the purling was fine.) So far the things I did have mostly been all knit, and even the K1 P1 ribbing I did looked right. (Except now I see that the stitches should all be parallel on the needle and not forming V-shaped knit/purl pairs.)
I’m glad I found this out before I got knee-deep in some project with a lot of shaping to it.
How about “How not to wrap the yarn for a yarn forward increase”. I learned this one last night. The pattern called for odd rows with staggered increases and the even rows you knit into the back loop to create the increase. Well, here I am happily knitting and looking back noticing there are random holes in the previous rows. Not all the increases had holes though, so I realized I’d wrapped some correctly, and some not so much.
It’s not about how you wrap, it’s about whether you twist when you work the wrap. I always twist the opposite way when I will twist later for a closed increase, it is neater.
And Steve that’s called Combined knitting many people knit that way (like English or Continental). There’s no reason to knit a particular way because people say it’s wrong, just because you don’t like the result.