question about purling

[nonniemous]

inchainz  and I have been discussing this randomly, and I've been searching for an answer in all my knitting books, but I haven't found one.  So I come here, to the knitting group, fount of all wisdom re: knitting, and I ask:

When purling, if the first leg of the stitch is behind the needle, do you go through that instead, or do you always default to the leg that's in front of the needle?  Seems to me it would make things twist funny.  I know when I knit, I go through the first leg, front or back.  Purling front leg only can also result in a twist, so ...

Yeah, okay.  This is probably a really stupid question.  But it's itching at me!  Anyone have any wisdom to share?

Comments

[nonniemous]

Yup, You're exactly right. I did check out those videos, and I am definitely doing the combined purl. It's so much easier than the others! It seems really obvious once you see the various methods all together there. inchainz and I have plans to check out some local stitch'n'bitch groups this week; I'll make sure to do some additional comparisons.

The Norwegian purl looks hard!

And just knowing what's going on makes ALL the difference. Thank you, again, for the help!

[sedge]

You're welcome!

I love knowing things and learning more things and sharing what I know. So I'm glad I could help.

Have fun working out the decreases!

[nonniemous]

Hee! I found a cheat sheet by grumperina. But I think I'm going to table some of my more complicated patterns right now and knit some gauge swatches and get this all straight in my head.

And I understand and share your joy in both knowledge and sharing that knowledge. And it's so much fun when knowledge (yours) meets and fills a serious gap in knowledge (mine!).

*snoopy dance of joy*

[sedge]

Oooh, convenient for (as she says) those moments when the brain isn't up to working it out.