Eight Ways to Create Right Twists and Left Twists // Technique Tuesday
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- This video demonstrates 4 methods of creating a right twist (2 replicate a true cable cross) and 4 methods of left twist (2 replicate a true cable cross). Any of these methods can be used/substituted for any of the other methods, based on your preference of ease, result, and underlying structure. These methods work for twists involving standard knit stitches, and are not suitable for RT and LT involving ktbl sts and purl sts. Written instructions for each method can be found further down.
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Introduction 0:00
RT and LT: 0:25
Most common RT and LT techniques: 2:02
Additional RT and LT techniques that are not structurally identical to true cable: 3:48
RT and LT that are structurally identical to true cables (and similar to execute as the previous RT and LT): 5:58
Futzy RT and LT which are structurally identical to true cables: 7:48
Written Instructions for each of the techniques shown:
Most common
RT: K2tog, but do not drop sts off left ndl; k 1st st again
LT: K 2nd st tbl from behind 1st st, k 1st st.
Alternate RT/LT (not structurally identical to true cable)
RT: K 2nd st, inserting ndl from front to back, k 1st st
LT: (mirror of 1st RT): Sl 2 sts, one at a time, as if to knit; return to left ndl; k 2nd st tbl from behind, k2togtbl.
RT/LT that are structurally identical to true cables
RT: k 2nd st through front leg so that ndl tip ends to the right of 1st st, k 1st st
LT: Sl 2 sts, one at a time, as if to knit; return to left ndl; k 2nd st tbl from behind, k 1st tbl.
Futzy RT/LT
RT: Sl 2 as if to k2tog, return to left ndl; k2 each tbl
LT: L 2 as if to p2tog tbl, return to left ndl one at a time, slipping from back, k2.
If you have any questions about this video, or suggestions for future videos, please let me know down in the comments or on social media.
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This just changed my life…❤ I’m working on socks and I hate the pattern less now lol
Thank you for this!!! Such a great tutorial.
Thank you for sharing your encyclopedic knowledge with us! The pattern instructions for my project were not clear and other YT video methods didn’t come anywhere close to matching up. I was able to see the alternate methods from those in your explanation of other techniques as well as the one the pattern writer intended but dropped the ball in explaining. It’s funny how just omitting a few words can completely confuse things!
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As always, you have the most insightful, comprehensive, and easy to follow tutorials. Best video by far on this topic.
So grateful for you! Your manner, style, and careful choice of yarn & needles so you are able to clearly illustrate EXACTLY what goes where are just perfect! I recommend you to every new knitter I speak with! Thank you for so beautifully sharing your vast knowledge and all these videos, which I return to over and over!!
I love this video so much. And it turns out I've been ding my cabled ribbing a little bit wrong (through tbl the back stitch for left leaning cables) Thank you for explaining all of them.
This is what i needed, doing a right twist on a sock on 9 inch circular needles makes it hard to work with a cable needle, this makes it easier. Thank you again so much
Fantastic detailing of doing twists. 👍 Thank you for sharing.
Thank You! I’ve been looking for a resource like this for a long time: all this wonderful info in one place.
This video was very enlightening! Thanks Roxanne!
Great video thank you, you make knitting so much easier to understand
Great explanations on these stitches-- thank you.
Extremely helpful video!! Thank you you so much as I have been so confused as to what the differences are and you explain in such an easy to understand way. Thank you for doing this and clearing the confusion I had. 🥰
Thank you for a wonderful video...clear, concise , great video and calm vocal!
Hi, Roxanne, thank you! Just this l'm trying to find out at the moment! Some of them now l know absolutely new! Half l found out on myselsf. It's great fun to frickle out new ways to knit a special case AND lots of fun to see your videos, you've gone further than l did! Love your videos! You know l knit for over 42 years but had to learn all new after l had an actidental OP with result of a vibration of my hands and arms. It's so fine to be able to knit again! I exercised about nearly 5 years now and since about 3 month l'm able to knit better, 'cause l found HiyaHiyas&Chiaogoo - Neednes! They help me to knit without having pain for hours but others who made me having pain! I'm so happy to have found you and your videos! These gave me the trust in my abilities that l could knit again one day! I need more stops and pause, but it works - in MY ability! Thank you so much! To me you're a wonderful person, helping so much! Be blessed, Roxanne, and please go on!
Just love your work thank you!
Brilliant! I couldn't understand why a RT instruction was different from the RT that I'd done previously. Can't wait to swatch these for myself! Thank you, Roxanne.
You've done it again! Wonderful information, and timely as I'm almost to the "twisted stitches" swatch in the MHK3. Thank you again!
Excellent! Simply excellent! Thank you...
WOW, such knowledge you have! This is great I am going to make a swatch from this video so I can have an example on hand to look at and to have it all wrote down this is so helpful you are certainly appreciated! It helps to know what I prefer to work and to know the different looks. 👏👏👏🌺 I look forward to next week's video thank you in advance I'll have my white swatch yarn ready to go.
Hi thank you for this information 😊 very informative
Thanks for this video. The futzy method is the solution I was looking for in a project where the cross involves the front stitch knit as a twisted stitch and the back stitch purled. Once I saw the re-mount technique, I figured out the rest.
Very clear and helpful! I was having some trouble executing the LT that involves slipping two sts kwise, putting back on L needle, and then knitting into the back of 2 and then into the back of both. Whew! This made it very clear....I needed to see it being executed in order to be able to get all the way through it.
Thanks for sharing
Wonderful thank you
Excellent tutorial! Thank you for showing all the differences. I am working on a pattern and wasn’t satisfied with the look of the “most popular” RT. I will try the 3rd example to see if it works better.
Love it
I had to laugh, the two futzy methods are my usual approach. :D I just find them easier than knitting the stitches out of order without repositioning them first.
Lol same here
Sadly, I am about to tink back one or maybe 2 rows - AGAIN - to try to fix a mistake in one of my LT's. I think there MUST be a way to drop down to do this, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. I thought I did, but when I arrived back to the same place I realized I was missing a stitch, so I didn't do it properly. I can't find a single video to fix that, but if anyone knows how to dissect such a mistake, it is you, Roxanne! My original mistake was that when I arrived to a place where I should have found 2 LTs and then a regular knit st (so, total of 5 sets) I found a properly knit LT pair, and then 2 sts that were way too long, and were not properly LT'd, and then the knit st was fine. Can you please do a video showing how to fix a surprise incorrect LT pair when you come upon them on the next row? (I hope my description makes sense.)
You'd need to ladder down the span of sts until you come to a row that has the right number of live sts, Then ladder the span back up, row by row.
Hi Roxanne, the techniques you demonstrate are fantastic and you explain them very clearly in this and all your videos. I sometimes have problems distinguishing between very similar results produced by the techniques you are teaching when you use dark or tonal yarns. Would it be possible to use a light, solid colour similar to the yarns you used when making the 'Eliminate Stair Steps With Short Row Shaping' or 'Seaming Stockinette Two Ways' videos?
Thank you for the fantastic content you produce every week! I genuinely look forward to your videos :)
Thanks and best wishes from the UK.
Wow. Excellent and very detailed and analytical tutorial. Let me say if you don't mind the suggestion plain colour yarn may be it would've been better to appreciate even more the difference between all the techniques but it's quite clear. Let's practice and make swatches. Thank you from Argentina.
Hi Roxanne. I am relatively new to knitting and made an interesting discovery while knitting a swatch for my first aran sweater. I found an interesting quality of a 2 stitch twist that you demonstrated in this video as a substitute for a 2 stitch cable! And I was only able to discover this with a swatch where I was trying to determine my favourite looking one or favourite stitch to execute. I was knitting columns of these cable crossings alternating between a right leaning decrease option and a true 1+1 cable crossing separated vertically by 3 rows of stockinette. The result was a slightly inconsistent length of cable in between each crossing. I believe this is caused by alternating the different methods. Since the true cable crossing is performed in between 2 rows of knit stitches but the k2tog occurs precisely on 1 row of stitches it causes this cable to be slightly longer. Of course this is only an issue when alternating them and wouldn't be noticeable if you were doing one type of cable crossing per column.
I was quite interested in what was causing this and as soon a I figured it out I though about you and your CZcams channel and how much your content has taught me about the specific structure of knitting.
The length of a cable is from the base of one crossing row to the base of the next. So the length of the cable in your case would be 4 rows, since you are working them that frequently. Are you saying that the appearance of the st that was on the left hand needle when you worked the technique and it came off the needle (appearing below the right hand needle) is different when you work a std cable vs the mock cable (k2tog, k into 1 st again)? Each technique produces a similar, but subtly different appearance, which is why you wouldn't switch to a different one mid-project. If you meant something else, you can always post in the Rox Rocks group on Ravelry, and include a photo to explain what you meant. (You could do that, anyway!) :-)
This was a super helpful video. I am working on a pattern that has a 3 stitch cable, and I dont want to use a cable needle. The stitch is sl 2 sts to cable needle and hold in front, K1tbl, slip purl st back from cable
needle to left hand needle and purl it, K1tbl from cable needle. I've been reordering the 3 stitches then working them but theres got to be an easier way.
I'll be showing how to cable without a cable needle next week, but for that video, I'll be demonstrating situations when one set of sts crosses another set. It is possible to do the double-transfer situation you are talking about (I've done it many times, re-inventing the process each time), but it requires knowing the technique I'll be demonstrating next week, first, in order to understand the instructions.
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I love your videos and you have helped me a lot what needles do you have I love them. Merry Christmas to you and your family. I was looking for the bee stitch and a waffle stitch if you can help me. Thank you
Catherine
Thanks so much! But which one do you use where?
Hi Roxanne. You are my instructor of choice for new technique tutorials! So glad I discovered you a few years ago.
My pattern uses these two stitch sequences to create cables that twist the top loops.
The first is C1F/P1/Ktbl: (Cable One and Hold to Front/Purl Next St/Knit Stitch on Cable through back loop). I have converted to this LT: Knit through back loop of 2nd stitch on left needle and then knit through back loops of two stitches.
The second sequence is C1B/Ktbl/P1. I can't figure out the mechanics for a RT that accomplishes the "cable" instructions. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks for looking at this.
Hi Roxane
I love your videos and as a newbie knitter I would like to know if you could demonstrate how to do a C3R cable without a cable needle, I have read the instructions on the pattern I’m using but don’t think I’m doing it correctly.
Thank you for your help
There are multiple ways of cabling without a cable needle. I have a video on how I do it. You should be able to find it in the playlist on Cables on my channel.
I have a suggestion for a video. Could you show how to ladder down a column of Ktbl’s to fix a Knit stitch that was supposed to be a Ktbl, but accidentally knitted regularly? I guess a missed Knit through the back loop several rows down.
The process is going to be similar to fixing a m1 increase, in terms of how to enter the stitch and twist it while laddering up. This video may help. It's not *exactly* what you're looking for but it might be close enough. czcams.com/video/GW_xYJQqS_Y/video.html
Hm. I knit using the Eastern method (all stitches are worked through the back loop), so it seems like I could skip most of the remounting that you've done here? I may have to try it out.
Any time there are mirrored versions of a technique, one will be easier than the other. Just as an ssk requires remounting sts for an untwisted left-leaning decrease for western knitters, a k2tog will require remounting for eastern knitters. You don't get out of remounting sts, it's just that the sts that are remounted are different for each style of knitting.
Oh, I'm aware of that (part of the fun of knitting with the Eastern method is having to translate every pattern that has directional elements before you can use it, after all!). But while my tired head may well have gotten things muddled, it seemed like you were remounting in both the left and right leaning twists for some methods? That was why I thought I might be able to use those and not worry about remounting. I will have to watch the video again tomorrow.
Only for the last one. For the last LT and RT, the point is to reorder the sts on the needle as you slip them together. For the RT, that means slipping together as if to knit, and transferring back as they are, which allows you to ktbl. For the LT, you slip as if to p2tog tbl, and when those are transferred back to the LHN, you have to change the mount as you slip them back. For eastern, it would be the opposite. For the RT, you'd sl 2 tog, then return them one at a time through the back, remounting them as you slipped; for the LT, you'd slip 2 tog through the back, and just transfer as they are, then knit through the fronts.
Ah well, seems I had indeed gotten muddled rather than finding a trick. Thank you for clarifying. 🙂
How do you knit the backside to maintain the design
Twists are worked every other row. You'd work the twist technique of your choice on a RS row, and then purl those 2 sts on a WS row. If you were working in the round, those sts would just be knit every other round.
I watched a video in which a RT is sl2 tog kw, then put back purlwise, then ktbl. It has become my fav and most fav. The LT i’ve been using is sl 2 as if to ssk, then come around and put them back so it reorients them and you can then k each one thru the front loop: www.leethalknits.com/tutorials/twisted.html