My grandmother was from Romania and taught me to knit. I am 81 and have always been told I was knitting wrong. I could never understand how teachers in kitting shops would want me to do the more complex method. I'm so happy to have found you.
I am a left-handed Eastern European style knitter and knitting stores have always look at me like I'm from Mars when I show them how I knit. I am very happy to see that this video and know that I am not alone LOL
Thank you so much for this video. I am 77 years old American. I learned to knit from my Ukrainian mother in law 50 years ago. I do the Eastern European knit! I kind on thought for the last 2 years I was doing continental wrong! I knit like you and it is a relief to see I am doing it correctly . This is the first knowledge of it and thanks to Maria Wowk I’m a very speedy good knitter.
Exactly how I've been knitting for more than 40 years! Didn't know it was Eastern European style, but that makes sense, since I learned from women of Eastern European background. It is an incredibly fast way to knit and I do get a lot of comments from people when they see me knitting this way. Thanks for a very clear video.
This is exactly how I do the knit & purl stitch and also the bid off! My mother taught me abt 35 years ago and we also learned this in school. Greetings from Romania! :)
you have given an excellent demo of the Combined knitting method. To knit, the yarn wraps CCW . The next row is mounted western style!! To purl, you wrap CW. The next row is mounted eastern style. So its half western / half eastern (Combined). With the Eastern European style, both the knit and purl stitches are done through the back loop of an eastern mounted stitch. As well, the yarn is wrapped CW for both the knits and purls. The stitches always remain mounted eastern style.
Thank you for your informative video. Your method of casting on is the same as my mother's but I was not able to master it during her lifetime. You have a gift of teaching. My mother had one speed when knitting, fast and could not slow it down for the life of her. I learned throwing as a child but later, also learned Continental knitting. My hand have arthritis but will not give up knitting so I learn other methods to take the stress off my hands. Your method of purling makes so much sense.
I'm a crocheter and I've been trying to teach myself how to knit but trying to get used to holding the yarn in my right hand was making things difficult and awkward for me. I heard about the European style of knitting by accident just by searching youtube for learn to knit video's. Yours is the first one I've found that really helped me get the hang of it!! Thank you for this video!
I am Moldovan and this is how my mother taught me to knit. I haven't knit in a long time and was looking at some tutorials to refresh my memory, and thought that the technique I grew up learning was completely wrong. I'm so glad I came across your video, thank you for posting this! This method is a lot more intuitive to me.
This method looks so much easier than what I was doing before (English). I'm a crocheter so this seems a little like crochet to me. I'm so glad I found your video.
My mother in law, from Ukraine taught me knitting 50 years ago. She didn’t speak English and I learned from sight only. As I watch you tube now you are the only continental knitter that does the knit stitch the way she did. I have tried to insert front to back and was happy to see your demo the way I learned.
I love it! I always thought I was knitting wrong. Now I know that it's EE style. Thanks for the casting off lesson as it makes it so much easier. Please keep sharing more videos!
This is exactly how I knit, same cast on also. Very few people know how to knit this way it seems, and I always get a lot of questions when other knitters watch me. I wasn't familiar with this particular bind off, but it's ingenious. Produces the exact same results as my usual bind off technique but the movements are so much more efficient! Never would have thought of doing it this way. Thanks!
A amid in a hotel I was staying in spoke almost NO english, saw me knitting mittens for my son, and showed me this, and in a couple of minutes did three rows! I was stunned! She worked with the yarn around her neck though, and by the next morning, I had gotten myself confused (as well as sick as a dog!). Because of an old injury I can't work with the yarn around my neck, it becomes painful, but that is the way I have ALWAYS found it in search. *DING!* I found you! Its identical , only the tension is in the hand. Thank-you!!!!
I love your accent. I could listen to you all day. I have been knitting something like that but I always knit in the front of the stitch. I really like your bind off method. I will have to look at it a few more times to learn how to do it. Thanks for posting.
You cleared up some tech issues I had with twisted stitches. Now I know when to use what style of purl with what style of knit to avoid twisting. thanks a million.
This is combination knitting with western european knit and eastern european purl. How the yarn is wrapped around the needle is what determines how the new stitch sits on the needle. She's knitting through the back loop because that is the leading leg of the stitch, If you knit through the back loop on a stitch that sits western on the needle you get a twisted stitch, but if you knit through the back of an eastern oriented stitch you get a normal knit stitch. Combination knitting is the most ergonomic style of knitting but it does require you to make some adjustments in stitch orientation or how you do decreases in order to follow patterns written for typical English speaking knitters (either English/American style or continental/western european style). She's doing a slipped stitch selvage for a prettier edge. In order to do that, you need to knit the last stitch of the row and then slip the first stitch of the row. For true Eastern European knitting you wrap the yarn counter clockwise around the needle tip for the knits just as she demonstrated for the purls. If you google "knit leading leg," "combination knitting," and russian knitting," you can find more indepth explanations on each of these techniques. The knitting heretic has a lot of info on combination knitting.
This is a lot like the Portuguese method (which originated in the middle east), you just don't have to use a pin or your neck, and you have more control of the yarn. So much easier for crocheters to learn with also. I've been doing it this way for months (I learned originally with the Portuguese method), and watching other videos, I thought I was doing it wrong. Thanks so much!!!
I finally have the correct term. My Turkish grandmother taught me how to knit as a kid and I felt so crazy that maybe I had been doing a different version incorrectly. Anyway, this is exactly how I do it
Hello, I just happened on to your videos and am completely fascinated; did not know about eastern european. I like the idea that I can work faster with this technique. Thank you for the clear instructions. Reggie
Oh my goodness, I never knew that I was knitting the Eastern European way. I used to do the English style but wanted to learn the continental style as it is faster, but now I know I taught myself the Eastern European knitting.
This is the way I knitt, and I am from Chile!! far away from EE. :) My grandma teach me like this and i dont have any EE background. Greetings an thanks!!
This is the way I was taught and it's so much faster than most ways. But bear in mind when reading instructions -- especially for decreasing or making lace -- that pattern writers assume your stitches are in the "normal" position. For some techniques, you'll need to turn a stitch around before working it. This method also turns a K2tog into a SSK and vice versa.
I really enjoyed your video. This looks like the way that I knit Continental style. Thanks for your information. I would be interested in seeing another video from you that shows decreases and increases for full-fashioned raglan sweaters. Sometimes my stitches look like they are slanted the wrong way.
That is how i knit too. I grew up in former yugoslavia and everyone there including my mom, knitted this way. I find other way harder, especially for purl stitch. Its somehow awkward to me.
I learned to knit, from my mother and grandmother, with the yarn in my left hand and casting on in this fashion, but I did NOT learn this video's method of doing each knit and purl stitch. For knit stitches, I put the needle left to right into the front of the stitch and wrap the yarn around from the back, and for purl stitches, I put the needle in right to left into the front of the stitch and wrap the yarn around from the front. My grandmother was from a town in the north of Bessarabia (alternately Russia, Romania, and now Moldova and south-central Ukraine), so I wonder if there are local variants to this "East European" style of knitting.
as i just discovered that for laziness-reasons, i have developed an Eastern-European knitting style, i can tell you that also for k2tog, you of course have to translate to your way. so if i need to make twisted stitches, i go through the front in knitting. if you realized that the pattern is written for another way of knitting, it's simple to translate. :)
i tried to do this in the round and all of my stitches got twisted hehe. I guess you have to do this back and forth to kind of untwist the stitch knitted in the back loop? it worked out fine though! i think the socks might even be sturdier now that all the stitches are twisted
the cast-on was what my mum taught me when i started (i'm german)! the formula was something like double to three times the length of yarn in relation to the width of the planned piece, right? i've come to appreciate the knitted cast on for some things, but both have their merits. i also seem to be knitting EE-way as i'm knitting through the back of the loop. interesting! :)
Greetings. I have been drawn to this way since I started knitting. My concern is can any pattern be knit this way. You have lovely nails, just the right length. Be well. Be happy.
I know this as Russian knitting. This is what I had figured out myself because all of the other ways on videos - after watching millions of them - did not make sense. English style has so many wasted stop start motions it is such a halting way to proceed I don't know how to get anything done however I have seen those speed Knitters.... Anyway this appeals to my very pragmatic - mind my brain just does not even want to do English Style. However I had heard while watching Continental knitting that English pearl was easier so I looked up English knitting and I thought oh okay I'll just switch my styles... but then I saw a video on backward knitting and that instead of wrangling so much to do the purl stitch this was an awful good way to do a vast course of purling. Then I heard somebody talk about Russian Purl... so I looked that up and then I saw a middle easterner who's video title was written in some kind of Middle Eastern language doing a stitch on the backside of her work I put the Russian Pearl and that mirrored stitch together and came up with the very way you are teaching right now. I have been on a search to find out what the name of this knitting is because I knew that I had not been the first one to figure it out. There is nothing new under the Sun. I'm glad that I finally just asked Google what way do traditional Russian grandmas knit and here you are. Oh I found another video that just calls it Eastern knitting. I also found something called combination knitting but it sounds complicated. You have to always go into the Stitch According to which Loop leg is forward and the way you and I knit it does it for us. The way we knit, it automatically rearranges the leg orientation from Eastern to Western and back again on the next course
Yes that is what she is doing - on the very 1st stitch of each row she is just slipping it to the right needle. You don't have to do that, some people choose to (& some patterns will specify it) because they like the edge that it makes. Also she was knitting the very last stitch of both rows (both her knit row & her purl row) & knitting them through the front leg of the yarn/stitch, for same reason, just a preference for the edge it creates.
thank you for your video, i always love to see eastern knitting, as i started out as an eastern knitting (I am greek/albanian heritage) HOwever, i knit differently ... well, i purl differently actually. I purl through the back loop, just as i knit through the back. the yarn wrap makes it so that the stitch is set up to work through the back loop. do you find that as well? thanks again!!
I am just learning about this method. I began knitting this eay because my mind said it was easier. Then I was told it was "wrong" and made twisted stitches. I come to find out what it is called and I do not believe any stiches are twisted now. But I have a question...do you have a different method of increasing or decreasing from that of other methods?
No Peggy. They are very different. In combination knitting the stitches must be reversed on one type of stitch. On eastern uncrossed, the stitches remain oriented exactly the same - with the back leg forward at all times. This comes from always wrapping the yarn clockways on both knit stitches and purl stitches. This is opposite from Continental & English which both wrap counter-clockwise- all stitches. On Combination knitting, as the name implies, it is wrapped one way for knit (clockwise) and differently for purl (counterclockwise). This lady explains it well on 2x2 rib. ua-cam.com/video/5WP2MlICOWU/v-deo.html If this were in Eastern, no stitch would ever be wrapped counterclockwise.
Sorry Peggy. I just rechecked and iin this video, she is indeed doing combination knitting. She just has an odd way of wrapping the knit stitch, which looked clockwise to me without close examination. . However, my description of what each one actually is was correct. Ive had to explain to many a person that Eastern (which I do.- every stitch wrapped clockwise) is no more difficult to do in the round than continental or english. Both knit & purl stitches leave all stitches oriented back leg forward. And to me, this is more of a "front of the stitch" than continental or english is. In those types, the needle must enter from the left to right - twisting it a bit. (Knit stitch)
If you are knitting in the back of the stitch, then what do you do when a pattern specifies to use the back of the stitch? Are you talking about the stitch or just where you are putting the needle at the back?
If you think about it, you are simply pulling a loop through from back of the knitting for 1 stitch & then you wrap the yarn around the leading leg (right half of the stitch from the front) and pull a stitch front to back through the same stitch. A little tiny bit of attention gives the same result on this method. Make knit stitch in the usual way. Then put your needle in the back of the stitch, you will be to the left of the leading leg - in back (you are still wrapping around the right half of the stitch) and come in from the back of the stitch make your wrap & pull through front to back.
I wish someone would explain why a first loop is removed before the verbal instructions begin. Also the last stitch is worked differently but not explained. The cast on is a bit confusing because I'm not sure where the end yarn is placed before casting on, i.e., is the tail end the first part worked, (under) or the 2nd part, (over)?
Sherry Boston The first stitch is slipped because it give a neater appearance to the edge and is easier to see if you need to seam. In this style, you're knitting into the back loop as opposed to the front loop. For some reason she knits the last stitch through the front loop, the way us English or Continental knitters knit.
This is combined knitting!!! Not EEK!!! Yarn should be wrapped clockwise in EEK, not counterclockwise as shown here. Very disappointing to see so many videos incorrectly demonstrate EEK technique.
Eastern knitting is knitting where the right leg of the stitch is to the back of the needle. How the yarn is wrapped doesn't matter as long as the stitch is correct.
My grandmother was from Romania and taught me to knit. I am 81 and have always been told I was knitting wrong. I could never understand how teachers in kitting shops would want me to do the more complex method. I'm so happy to have found you.
I am a left-handed Eastern European style knitter and knitting stores have always look at me like I'm from Mars when I show them how I knit. I am very happy to see that this video and know that I am not alone LOL
Thank you so much for this video. I am 77 years old American. I learned to knit from my Ukrainian mother in law 50 years ago. I do the Eastern European knit! I kind on thought for the last 2 years I was doing continental wrong! I knit like you and it is a relief to see I am doing it correctly . This is the first knowledge of it and thanks to Maria Wowk I’m a very speedy good knitter.
Exactly how I've been knitting for more than 40 years! Didn't know it was Eastern European style, but that makes sense, since I learned from women of Eastern European background. It is an incredibly fast way to knit and I do get a lot of comments from people when they see me knitting this way. Thanks for a very clear video.
This is exactly how I do the knit & purl stitch and also the bid off! My mother taught me abt 35 years ago and we also learned this in school. Greetings from Romania! :)
you have given an excellent demo of the Combined knitting method. To knit, the yarn wraps CCW . The next row is mounted western style!! To purl, you wrap CW. The next row is mounted eastern style. So its half western / half eastern (Combined).
With the Eastern European style, both the knit and purl stitches are done through the back loop of an eastern mounted stitch. As well, the yarn is wrapped CW for both the knits and purls. The stitches always remain mounted eastern style.
Thank you for your informative video. Your method of casting on is the same as my mother's but I was not able to master it during her lifetime. You have a gift of teaching. My mother had one speed when knitting, fast and could not slow it down for the life of her.
I learned throwing as a child but later, also learned Continental knitting. My hand have arthritis but will not give up knitting so I learn other methods to take the stress off my hands. Your method of purling makes so much sense.
I'm a crocheter and I've been trying to teach myself how to knit but trying to get used to holding the yarn in my right hand was making things difficult and awkward for me. I heard about the European style of knitting by accident just by searching youtube for learn to knit video's. Yours is the first one I've found that really helped me get the hang of it!! Thank you for this video!
I am Moldovan and this is how my mother taught me to knit. I haven't knit in a long time and was looking at some tutorials to refresh my memory, and thought that the technique I grew up learning was completely wrong. I'm so glad I came across your video, thank you for posting this! This method is a lot more intuitive to me.
This method looks so much easier than what I was doing before (English). I'm a crocheter so this seems a little like crochet to me. I'm so glad I found your video.
This is how I knit and I never knew what the technique was called. I think most people who learn crochet first knit this way
My mother in law, from Ukraine taught me knitting 50 years ago. She didn’t speak English and I learned from sight only. As I watch you tube now you are the only continental knitter that does the knit stitch the way she did. I have tried to insert front to back and was happy to see your demo the way I learned.
This method is so efficient, and I was able to master it in minutes. Thank you for sharing!
I love it! I always thought I was knitting wrong. Now I know that it's EE style. Thanks for the casting off lesson as it makes it so much easier. Please keep sharing more videos!
This is exactly how I knit, same cast on also. Very few people know how to knit this way it seems, and I always get a lot of questions when other knitters watch me. I wasn't familiar with this particular bind off, but it's ingenious. Produces the exact same results as my usual bind off technique but the movements are so much more efficient! Never would have thought of doing it this way. Thanks!
A amid in a hotel I was staying in spoke almost NO english, saw me knitting mittens for my son, and showed me this, and in a couple of minutes did three rows! I was stunned! She worked with the yarn around her neck though, and by the next morning, I had gotten myself confused (as well as sick as a dog!). Because of an old injury I can't work with the yarn around my neck, it becomes painful, but that is the way I have ALWAYS found it in search. *DING!* I found you! Its identical , only the tension is in the hand. Thank-you!!!!
I love your accent. I could listen to you all day. I have been knitting something like that but I always knit in the front of the stitch. I really like your bind off method. I will have to look at it a few more times to learn how to do it. Thanks for posting.
You cleared up some tech issues I had with twisted stitches. Now I know when to use what style of purl with what style of knit to avoid twisting. thanks a million.
Thanks, very helpful info. 🌼🌺🌸
This is combination knitting with western european knit and eastern european purl. How the yarn is wrapped around the needle is what determines how the new stitch sits on the needle. She's knitting through the back loop because that is the leading leg of the stitch, If you knit through the back loop on a stitch that sits western on the needle you get a twisted stitch, but if you knit through the back of an eastern oriented stitch you get a normal knit stitch. Combination knitting is the most ergonomic style of knitting but it does require you to make some adjustments in stitch orientation or how you do decreases in order to follow patterns written for typical English speaking knitters (either English/American style or continental/western european style). She's doing a slipped stitch selvage for a prettier edge. In order to do that, you need to knit the last stitch of the row and then slip the first stitch of the row. For true Eastern European knitting you wrap the yarn counter clockwise around the needle tip for the knits just as she demonstrated for the purls. If you google "knit leading leg," "combination knitting," and
russian knitting," you can find more indepth explanations on each of these techniques. The knitting heretic has a lot of info on combination knitting.
This is a lot like the Portuguese method (which originated in the middle east), you just don't have to use a pin or your neck, and you have more control of the yarn. So much easier for crocheters to learn with also. I've been doing it this way for months (I learned originally with the Portuguese method), and watching other videos, I thought I was doing it wrong. Thanks so much!!!
I finally have the correct term. My Turkish grandmother taught me how to knit as a kid and I felt so crazy that maybe I had been doing a different version incorrectly. Anyway, this is exactly how I do it
Hello, I just happened on to your videos and am completely fascinated; did not know about eastern european. I like the idea that I can work faster with this technique. Thank you for the clear instructions. Reggie
Oh my goodness, I never knew that I was knitting the Eastern European way. I used to do the English style but wanted to learn the continental style as it is faster, but now I know I taught myself the Eastern European knitting.
Awesome❗clearly explained and illustrated. Thanks for sharing🌹
This is the way I knitt, and I am from Chile!! far away from EE. :) My grandma teach me like this and i dont have any EE background. Greetings an thanks!!
Thank you! ❤️
This is the way I was taught and it's so much faster than most ways. But bear in mind when reading instructions -- especially for decreasing or making lace -- that pattern writers assume your stitches are in the "normal" position. For some techniques, you'll need to turn a stitch around before working it. This method also turns a K2tog into a SSK and vice versa.
+Margaret Peterson normal don't equate to a method, are you referring to continental , western european , or american european?
By normal I meant with leading leg of the stitch in front of the needle. Eastern purls change the stitch mount.
I really enjoyed your video. This looks like the way that I knit Continental style. Thanks for your information. I would be interested in seeing another video from you that shows decreases and increases for full-fashioned raglan sweaters. Sometimes my stitches look like they are slanted the wrong way.
this looks so much easier than i have been doing it all this time!!!!! I need to try this!
Very well done! I had been using my pointer, like you for years. Reassuring😍
Thank you so much for your tutorial, I'm eager to try this way of knitting, especially the way you cast on and bind off. Thanks again, Happy New Year!
You just made my whole life make sense lol!! I only wish you had a few more videos.
Thank you for sharing, I found this very interesting and helpful.
Im not crazy!!! This is how my Polish grandmother taught me to knit and I could never find anything on this method until now.
I love the binding off!
That is how i knit too. I grew up in former yugoslavia and everyone there including my mom, knitted this way. I find other way harder, especially for purl stitch. Its somehow awkward to me.
I learned to knit, from my mother and grandmother, with the yarn in my left hand and casting on in this fashion, but I did NOT learn this video's method of doing each knit and purl stitch. For knit stitches, I put the needle left to right into the front of the stitch and wrap the yarn around from the back, and for purl stitches, I put the needle in right to left into the front of the stitch and wrap the yarn around from the front. My grandmother was from a town in the north of Bessarabia (alternately Russia, Romania, and now Moldova and south-central Ukraine), so I wonder if there are local variants to this "East European" style of knitting.
Excellent tutorial!
as i just discovered that for laziness-reasons, i have developed an Eastern-European knitting style, i can tell you that also for k2tog, you of course have to translate to your way. so if i need to make twisted stitches, i go through the front in knitting. if you realized that the pattern is written for another way of knitting, it's simple to translate. :)
Ha! Finally I found someone who knits just like I do... yey!
i tried to do this in the round and all of my stitches got twisted hehe. I guess you have to do this back and forth to kind of untwist the stitch knitted in the back loop? it worked out fine though! i think the socks might even be sturdier now that all the stitches are twisted
I think lever knitting is best method ..fast and comfortable
the cast-on was what my mum taught me when i started (i'm german)! the formula was something like double to three times the length of yarn in relation to the width of the planned piece, right?
i've come to appreciate the knitted cast on for some things, but both have their merits.
i also seem to be knitting EE-way as i'm knitting through the back of the loop. interesting! :)
Greetings. I have been drawn to this way since I started knitting. My concern is can any pattern be knit this way. You have lovely nails, just the right length. Be well. Be happy.
I know this as Russian knitting. This is what I had figured out myself because all of the other ways on videos - after watching millions of them - did not make sense. English style has so many wasted stop start motions it is such a halting way to proceed I don't know how to get anything done however I have seen those speed Knitters....
Anyway this appeals to my very pragmatic - mind my brain just does not even want to do English Style. However I had heard while watching Continental knitting that English pearl was easier so I looked up English knitting and I thought oh okay I'll just switch my styles... but then I saw a video on backward knitting and that instead of wrangling so much to do the purl stitch this was an awful good way to do a vast course of purling. Then I heard somebody talk about Russian Purl... so I looked that up and then I saw a middle easterner who's video title was written in some kind of Middle Eastern language doing a stitch on the backside of her work I put the Russian Pearl and that mirrored stitch together and came up with the very way you are teaching right now. I have been on a search to find out what the name of this knitting is because I knew that I had not been the first one to figure it out. There is nothing new under the Sun. I'm glad that I finally just asked Google what way do traditional Russian grandmas knit and here you are. Oh I found another video that just calls it Eastern knitting. I also found something called combination knitting but it sounds complicated. You have to always go into the Stitch According to which Loop leg is forward and the way you and I knit it does it for us. The way we knit, it automatically rearranges the leg orientation from Eastern to Western and back again on the next course
Very clear diction
Por fin sé cual es la forma de tejer que me enseño mi madre!!!
I'm really trying to learn this method but I'm a little confused. Do you just transfer the first stitch to the right needle without knitting first?
Yes that is what she is doing - on the very 1st stitch of each row she is just slipping it to the right needle. You don't have to do that, some people choose to (& some patterns will specify it) because they like the edge that it makes. Also she was knitting the very last stitch of both rows (both her knit row & her purl row) & knitting them through the front leg of the yarn/stitch, for same reason, just a preference for the edge it creates.
This is pretty much how it was taught to me in school in Finland.
How do you do the eastern european yarn forward please?
thank you for your video, i always love to see eastern knitting, as i started out as an eastern knitting (I am greek/albanian heritage) HOwever, i knit differently ... well, i purl differently actually. I purl through the back loop, just as i knit through the back. the yarn wrap makes it so that the stitch is set up to work through the back loop. do you find that as well? thanks again!!
Looking for a video eastern uncrossed continental knitting assigned pooling
I am just learning about this method. I began knitting this eay because my mind said it was easier. Then I was told it was "wrong" and made twisted stitches. I come to find out what it is called and I do not believe any stiches are twisted now. But I have a question...do you have a different method of increasing or decreasing from that of other methods?
Combination knitting, not Eastern European Knitting.
shes eastern european , i think she knows LOL
No Peggy. They are very different. In combination knitting the stitches must be reversed on one type of stitch. On eastern uncrossed, the stitches remain oriented exactly the same - with the back leg forward at all times. This comes from always wrapping the yarn clockways on both knit stitches and purl stitches. This is opposite from Continental & English which both wrap counter-clockwise- all stitches. On Combination knitting, as the name implies, it is wrapped one way for knit (clockwise) and differently for purl (counterclockwise). This lady explains it well on 2x2 rib.
ua-cam.com/video/5WP2MlICOWU/v-deo.html
If this were in Eastern, no stitch would ever be wrapped counterclockwise.
Sorry Peggy. I just rechecked and iin this video, she is indeed doing combination knitting. She just has an odd way of wrapping the knit stitch, which looked clockwise to me without close examination. . However, my description of what each one actually is was correct. Ive had to explain to many a person that Eastern (which I do.- every stitch wrapped clockwise) is no more difficult to do in the round than continental or english. Both knit & purl stitches leave all stitches oriented back leg forward. And to me, this is more of a "front of the stitch" than continental or english is. In those types, the needle must enter from the left to right - twisting it a bit. (Knit stitch)
Thanks to all for the very educational comments and explanations here! Now, my brain hurts a little. lol need to sit & knit to recover ;-)
If you are knitting in the back of the stitch, then what do you do when a pattern specifies to use the back of the stitch? Are you talking about the stitch or just where you are putting the needle at the back?
If you think about it, you are simply pulling a loop through from back of the knitting for 1 stitch & then you wrap the yarn around the leading leg (right half of the stitch from the front) and pull a stitch front to back through the same stitch. A little tiny bit of attention gives the same result on this method. Make knit stitch in the usual way. Then put your needle in the back of the stitch, you will be to the left of the leading leg - in back (you are still wrapping around the right half of the stitch) and come in from the back of the stitch make your wrap & pull through front to back.
I wish someone would explain why a first loop is removed before the verbal instructions begin. Also the last stitch is worked differently but not explained. The cast on is a bit confusing because I'm not sure where the end yarn is placed before casting on, i.e., is the tail end the first part worked, (under) or the 2nd part, (over)?
Sherry Boston The first stitch is slipped because it give a neater appearance to the edge and is easier to see if you need to seam. In this style, you're knitting into the back loop as opposed to the front loop. For some reason she knits the last stitch through the front loop, the way us English or Continental knitters knit.
Michele S Thank you, Michele.That was very helpful.
see good knit kisses cast on video
What is your original country?
This is combined knitting!!! Not EEK!!! Yarn should be wrapped clockwise in EEK, not counterclockwise as shown here. Very disappointing to see so many videos incorrectly demonstrate EEK technique.
Eastern knitting is knitting where the right leg of the stitch is to the back of the needle. How the yarn is wrapped doesn't matter as long as the stitch is correct.
Nope, sorry. Don't agree. How it's wrapped is just as important as how the stitch sits on the needle.
If I knit this was and an American patter tells me to kbl what should I do?
No! It is Eastern style exactly how we do it in Poland and Slavic countries! How my Mother and GrandMother taught me!