T wist your stitches with panache!
Don’ t get cross!
T wist your stitches with panache!
Charles Voth
In early lessons, most knitters are shown how to avoid twisting stitches. We work hard at figuring out which is the front leg and which is the back leg of the stitch. If we are pickers( or continental knitters) and we work our purls so that the first leg of a stitch is at the back on the knit side, we have to knit into the back leg so that our stitches don ' t twist. Combination knitters are really good at figuring this out! If we are throwers( or we knit English), then our first stitch legs are usually also the front legs and we need to knit into the back leg to twist the stitch. It all becomes a muddle of legs and fronts and backs and nexts and behinds, but somehow, with practice, we come out on top, breathing easily, and with our stitches all aligned just so, all this without our knickers in a knot! In this feature, we ' re going to break all the rules and we ' re going to deliberately twist stitches to add texture to our knitting.