[FONT=“Comic Sans MS”][COLOR="#300090"]I’m just starting out; so I tried a simple CO beginning with a slip knot and a twisting loops onto the needle. When I knit the first stitch, I suddenly have a gap between the needles. Each added knit makes the gap longer. Eventually, I do end up with what is identical to the LT CO on my right needle. But I have a long strand between my last stitch and that slip knot I started with. :??
My first try was the LT CO but knitting into that also caused problems. Now I have frogged a second time and having a second try at LT CO. :roll:
Okay, now I get it. Amy’s video does have one short but very important phrase near the end. “Your next row will be purl stitch.” D’oh! :doh:
So now I know:
You [B]knit[/B] into a stitch where the loop (over the hook) is the neck and the previous row looks like the [B](“Vee” shape) of a scarf crossing in front of the neck, the loop[/B].
[B]Purl[/B] into a stitch where the previous row crosses like the [B]scarf crossing the back of the neck[/B] (it just goes straight across like a ‘-’ dash).
Yeah, I understand that twisted loop cast on is hard to get a good result with. Have you tried one of the knitted on cast ons? One by that name and the other the cable cast on. They are pretty easy to do.
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Bambi, What is the slingshot CO?
MerigoldinWA, I think I saw a video here on KH for both the knitted on and the cable COs. I got the long tail cast on working, I just had to purl the next row and it was great.
Now, on to joining a new color…
I did a swatch in all knit for several rows then purl WS and knit RS for a few more rows. I got the stitches down and now can work on the fairisle stitches 1, 2, 3, and 4. They really do weave the non-working color well.
I also did a few left handed knit stitches. The hardest part of that was switching the yarn to my right hand and doing the YO or throw.
Jack, I think the slingshot thing is another name for the Long Tail cast on. Most people do it holding both yarns in one hand kind of forming a slingshot. I get the same result, but learned to do it with both hands holding yarns. Sometimes I think that is called the Thumb Method of doing the Long Tail. I can do it with one hand, but find it more comfortable to do it the other way.
I also did a few left handed knit stitches. The hardest part of that was switching the yarn to my right hand and doing the YO or throw.
Yeah, I knit Contienental (can knit English too, but don’t except for 2 color work), and when I learned (I have probably forgotten how again) to knit left handed I couldn’t do it without throwing, and I think I had to have the yarn in my right hand. Can’t remember, but it was kind of slow.
I agree with Bambi about the backward loop thing you were first talking about. It is a very useful thing. Sometimes when adding stitches in the middle of a project it is the best thing to do. I also like to use it as an increase, a M1, in some instances. I like it a lot.
Are you a fairly new knitter? It seems new knitters these days learn all sorts of things many of us old timers never even heard of before the internet came into play.
[FONT=“Comic Sans MS”][COLOR="#300090"]I just thought I’d let you all know that I started a WIP in the What 'cha Knitting forum for the NC State potholder.
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