backwards knitting

[shawnthemom]

Thank you so much. I just needed to see it to understand. Appreciate your help. :-)

[TheCornhusker]

Can't really see what you're doing with such small needles.

[kimsy12322]

i think this is good for people who is left handed

[RateMyKnitting]

Interesting!

RMK

[defarge007]

I'm a continental knitter and this method makes the most sense to me. It's hard to figure out how to knit backwards watching American/English throw method.

The Knitting Guild Association recently came out with a good written tutorial.

[MsKathy07]

Another nice way to use this technique is if you are knitting with two colors (Fair Isle or Norwegian knitting) in flat rows (ie. not in the round). Rather than purl in two colors every other row, you can knit back, backwards. I believe that is what Meg Swansen calls this technique, "knitting back, backwards."  Great demo!

[defarge007]

Cast-On (The Knitting Guild of America/TKGA) had a good tutorial in their Aug-Oct 2009 issue (by Bobbie Smith), but it looks like it's geared to English/American/throw knitters and I'm a Continental knitter. I tried both ways, and even though you have to move that index finger quite a bit I found it much simpler to knit backwards the way it's demonstrated here. Very good demo.

Re Portuguese knitting. Their purl stitch rocks!! I'm just not sure how they would knit backwards.

[defarge007]

Cast-On (The Knitting Guild of America/TKGA) had a good tutorial in their Aug-Oct 2009 issue (by Bobbie Smith), but it looks like it's geared to English/American/throw knitters and I'm a Continental knitter. I tried both ways, and even though you have to move that index finger quite a bit I found it much simpler to knit backwards the way it's demonstrated here. Very good demo.

[spatrickarizona1982]

Thank you! I have been knitting like this for years and someone told me I was doing it wrong! But I'm not wrong, I'm left handed!

~Sarah

[Kiyoto]

Thanks! Now I don't have to stop and switch hands, its a real pain and it wastes my time, I enjoy fast knitting but hate switcing hands, thanks so much!

[erjati1]

If you knit portuguese style purling is very very easy and fast.

[sailorwater88]

hey i do that i knit with my right hand and purl with my left hand and it is faster that way its a cool way to get your work done faster ;)

[thecostumer]

this is stupid. purling is just plain faster. it's not hard either... it would take me longer to learn to do this backward knitting stuff than it would to knit a whole garment.

[BigBlueSky300]

Great demo. Thanks for doing it so slowly so I could really see what you're doing. Super help.

[woochizen]

Thank you! The speed of knitting are very good and clear for demo.

[beinuppity]

I watched this 3 times & couldn't see how this was purling, it looked just like knitting to me. Then I realized - I'm left-handed! Now I get it - I have to reverse it for myself (as I ALWAYS do) which then makes it backward knitting for a leftie. Ingeniuos! Thanks for a great video (even if it IS wrong-handed - LOL)

[MariaVana]

@beinuppity I was thinking the exact same thing, I was watching like "that's the way I always knit" then realised this person must be a right handed knitter

[hello0831]

@beinuppity in the description he/she said he/she was AVOIDING purling.

[laugr744]

Cool, but can you go faster than that? Cuz if not, avoiding purling is kinda pointless.

[kumada84]

"Cool, but can you go faster than that? Cuz if not, avoiding purling is kinda pointless."

Of course you can do it faster than this, and you also never have to turn the work (when you get to the end you just keep going) so you save even more time that way.

[Silberchen]

Normal purling works faster for me. But sometimes you have pattern in which you only need a few purls (like entrelac knitting or the heel of a sock), than it's way faster.

[methodistgirl]

Could you do another video like that one and

let it last for at least a full minute? I'm

trying to learn many different ways to knit

myself. Right now knitting backwards is kinda

frustrating for I don't have the hang of it

yet.

[fitzclarence29]

Oh! This is very menacing. Play it backwards and the true message emerges. Be afraid, be very afraid.

[Raerauntha]

Yay!I'm just a beginner and I thought I was ding it right but I was purling instead of knitting!Thank you for this video!

[thrutheiofthebholder]

The videography is fantastic. Thanks for sharing the beautiful colors.

[Carloss]

I bet that's a guy in a woman's suit.

I'm the best better.

BET ME.

[requieminadream]

I bet that's porn on the TV in the background, too.

[requieminadream]

I haven't seen anything more insulting on YouTube. Phallic symbols galore, and what's that yarn supposed to represent? I don't even wanna know!

[Kaylore]

This video is more propiganda from the Bush big oil war machine! When will you stupid sheep stop believing the lies and understand knitting is one step away from fashism?!?!?! IDIOTS!

[ataturkuberalles]

This "backwards knitting" is obviously a plot by the Greeks and the Armenians, in collusion with Zionist interests, to take away the territory of the republic of Türkiye! Resist it with all your power, and always keep fighting for the establishment of a glorious Pan-Turkic Confederation!

[boycottsociety]

Someone told me there'd be Cheeze Doodlez. They lied.

[ataturkuberalles]

And who told you about these so-called "cheeze doodlez?" An Armenian propagandist? The Ottoman Empire shall rise again!

[nebutron]

Who knew that YouTube was the place to go to learn to knit? Yay!

[pommeemmop]

omg FAKE!

[ataturkuberalles]

Exactly. This has the video-manipulating techniques of the Greek Army Psyops Department written all over it!

[genericmadness]

Sure, while away your time knitting while the K'lai plan their second attack on Earth! The Star Marines need you, with such nubile hands you should be piloting a starshuttle.

[ramltfaw]

That actually looks more awkward to me that purling.

[brocantoise]

merci c'est beau

[sewfunnytoys]

I am a lefty and this is exactly how I've been knitting ; so it is right on - good color

[akarpowicz]

Thanks for posting. Nice visibility with the yarn. Very useful.

[AnimalsCantTalk]

Excellet video! I knew this trick, but might have forgotten it ... a little treasure to find it here unexpectedly! ;)

[empathy44]

This is an excellent video. It's close up, reasonably in focus, with a bright & non-fuzzy yarn that shows up against the needles. The stitches are done slowly and the action is never obscured by moving hands or such.

[nuts4fiber]

This IS backwards knitting, not left-handed knitting. The result is a purl row, without having to turn your work. A friend taught me backwards knitting while I was knitting entrelac. It's great for that! (And I'm a leftie, who knits right-handed continental). Oh, and it's great for short rows, also!

[passionadel]

a beautiful and colourful scarf

[passionadel]

i prefer knit stich qand continental stitch i am right handed

[tafkaGilly]

That is not left handed knitting. She is inserting the needle and wrapping the stitch differntly.

Worth a try.

[ainopaino]

That's not backwards knitting, that's really slow lefthanded knitting! And Katjardin, lefties can purl too *lol* I'm a leftie myself, and I've been thinking to learn righthanded knitting too, just to avoid the constant turning when knitting entrelac.

[katjardin]

This would only work for stockinette, right? This wouldn't work for seed stitch or ribbing, right?  Too bad!

[waitingline]

interesting! I'm going to try this.

[hamp9999]

Pretty sure she was just doing this reeaaal slow so we could see it clearly. And there's no turning the work around and resetting your needles in your hands at the beginning of each new row.

[dafaust]

that's great. but the amount of time you'd save after you've learned how to purl then get up to speed would be worth the effort. great video though :)

[mo0nangel]

wow thanks! :D