I’ve been trying to do the kitchener stitch to finish the crotch, and I can’t get it to look right. Then I realized through some of the videos on the net that I’m a combination knitter. Anyone know of any resources on the net that show the kitchener stitch for combination knitting?
Yikes… as if the kitchener isn’t tricky enough without throwing in combination knitting. Are you secretly a masochist or something? lol
I don’t know of any resources for combination knitting. The only thing I can suggest is to sit down and study the path of the yarn and try to duplicate that by hand… which, I’m sure you’ve already done. How about doing a 3-needle bind off and be done with it?
One of my knitting magazines finally had a demonstration on kitchener stitch that I could understand, but haven’t had a chance to try. I knit continental since I’m a very longtime crocheter and relatively new to knitting. When finishing off my first two pairs of socks {for my young daughters, not for me! }, I simply used a 3 needle bind off. While there was a noticable seam, it wasn’t ugly.
Note: I just checked my review blog, and it’s the November issue of Creative Knitting… the cost of the magazine was worth it for just that IMO!!
Hi, I am a combination knitter too. I’m new to the kitchener stitch but this is what is working for me so far:
Pick up the bottom (closer needle) right stitch -PURLWISE,
and drop it from its needle
Pick up the bottom left stitch -KNITWISE (be careful to pass the needle in front of the loose yarn),
leave it on its needle
Pick up the top (farther needle) right stitch -PURLWISE,
drop it off its needle
Pick up the top left -KNITWISE.
leave it on the needle
Repeat these steps
(It might be just me but I have trouble thinking in terms of knitwise and purlwise. I think of knitwise as “left to right” and purlwise as “right to left”)
Hope this helps and isn’t too confusing.
If this works for anyone else please let me know.
I think I would just reposition each stitch on the needles before you begin then follow regular directions. It would just mean moving them to another needle and turning them so they have the opposite orientation to what they have when a knit row is facing you to be worked. To me that would be easier than another method of Kitchener stitching.
I’m an Eastern knitter. For something like that, do what Marigold said and change the orientation. The stitches are shaped like an upside down horseshoe. In English and Continental knitting, the open part of the stitches faces to the left. Eastern and combination stitches face to the right. Move the stitches from the left needle to the right and turn them to the left, then you should have no problem with the kitchener stitch. You will also need to change the stitch orientation to the left in a k2 together, place the needle into the two stitches in the front left to right, and scoop up the yarn in the back of the needle in an Eastern counterclockwise motion.
Eastern knitting began in Arabia around 200 ad. It predates Turkish, English, and Continental knitting. You guys are the ones with your stitches backwards! lol
}, I simply used a 3 needle bind off. While there was a noticable seam, it wasn’t ugly.
