How to do left & right crosses?

How-to Questions
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I have the gansey sock pattern from Knitpicks. The pattern says to do left and right crosses, but the concept has me baffled. It says something to the effect of knitting into the 2nd stitch on the left needle, leave it, then knit into the first stitch and take them both off the needle. Is this another way of doing a cable? I can do a cable, but this is just weird to me. How can you knit a stitch and not take it off the needle? Help! I searched for a video ( a quick search) but didn’t find one.

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Hiya Sandra,
Here’s a video on youtube I put together showing just this technique for crossing stitches. I crossed more than one but the technique is the same no matter now many stitches you cross.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
//youtu.be/NX7bK6xlV1U

Dont’ mind the noise hun, the kids decided they HAD to do the dishes right then n there. Who was I to argue!!!

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I love the video and will use it for cabling, but you took the stitches off the left needle after knitting them. The directions I have say knit the stitch but do not remove it from the left needle. Then knit the first stitch and remove them both.
I found this, but I’m still confused.

http://www.tata-tatao.to/knit/stitches/cross/e-index.html

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Yeah, that’s the way I do it. Knit into the second stitch, it stays on the left needle until you knit the skipped st(s). then you let the whole lot just slip off the left needle. They are already knitted onto the right needle.
The twist stitches are super duper easy. You skip that first stitch and knit either in the front or the back of the second stitch (es) depending on how you want them twisted. Leave that original st on the left needle (the new one is already on the right) then knit the skipped stitch and let them all slip off the left. And it’s all nice n twisted.
Hope that helps a little bit.

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does it work sort of like the way you do an increase where you knit into the front and back of a stitch. I know this isn’t an increase, but same principle. in the increase, you sort of knit into one stitch, then knit it again before it comes off the left needle. am I making any sense at all?

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It is like a mini cable, just knitting the stitches out of order. You knit only into each stitch once though, leave them on the needle until you’ve knit both of them.

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I have some knitting with me (at work) that I can do a dummy try on. I’m sure once I try it, it will be a “well duh” moment and much easier than it looks. Thanks everyone!

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I did it! There was nothing to it! Thanks for the help!

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:clink: WAY AWESOME KEWLNESS!!!:thumbsup: :woot: