Knitting Back

#1

I think I saw somewhere on this forum (or in the video section) directions for “knitting back” as opposed to purling when you are working on narrow stockinette peices. I have done search upon search and can’t find it anywhere. Help?!?

#2

It’s at the bottom of the Purling page of videos. :slight_smile:

#3

So what you’re nicely telling me is that yes, in fact, I am blind! :roflhard:

#4

:roflhard:
I wouldn’t have known where to look either, but I was watching the purl videos recently because I had a sneaking suspicion that all the purls I’d ever made were twisted.

#5

And were they? That is so funny. I have been knitting for three years now, and even though I made many beautiful things. I still sometimes listen to descriptions of things on this site and think “oh no, I am doing it all wrong!”. :doh: :rofling:

#6

Absolutely. I’d been wrapping the yarn the wrong way around the needle and twisting my stitches. And for the longest time I just thought that I was mysteriously purling really tight and I thought nothing of it. But then I began to have my doubts, “listening in” on conversations around the forum, and I thought I’d double check just to be sure. And sure enough, I’d been doing it wrong since I was seven or eight. :rofling: