Just watched this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI5Gbjz5bvc)

Yes i'm that sad.

Anyhow, my reason for psoting is this. Why would you want to avoid purling?

I prefer purling over knitting anyday! I find it so much easier than knitting.


Can this get a nomination for geekiest post 2006?

Nah, you have to post some rubbish about Linux and C++ porting (or something) to get that award :hihi: .

I like that knitting backwards idea. I don't mind purling, so I wouldn't actively avoid it, but that method looks pretty cool. I definitely knit faster than I purl, though not enough to make me want to use that technique all the time (unless it was really, really easy to do).

When I was doing plain stuff and bored I invented a technique for not turning the knitting round and just moving it instead from the left needle to the right, and then back again, and still producing stocking stitch, and I also know a few crochet edgings that require you to crochet left to right. I assume this is similar to your method.

It serves a purpose in keeping the attention of people who are easily bored while knitting I'm sure.

I've not been knitting anywhere near long enough to get bored of the simple methods, indeed, there the only ones i've fully mastered!

...It serves a purpose in keeping the attention of people who are easily bored while knitting I'm sure.
Bored while knitting? Surely not! :suspect:

Bored while knitting? Surely not! :suspect:

I found stocking stitch and garter stitch a wee bit tedious- but then I was used to arans, fair isle, lace and intarsia covering the whole of a jumper.

The stocking stitch was just the stuff that was between the interesting bits.

I find the stocking stitch is the bit between the mistakes :lol:

I read somewhere in an article that in colour work sometimes it's advantageous to use this method, in order to avoid long stranding across the back of your work. Also in entrelac work where you have long strips this method can be used to alleviate the constant turning of BIG items.
These explanations are obviously for those who have progressed beyond the basics. Perhaps that's why I didn't understand them well enough to explain fully here.

I find the stocking stitch is the bit between the mistakes :lol:
Lol! :hihi: me too!

I prefer knit stitch to purl, purl slows me down abit. But i wouldn't do this method, i can't even work it out!

It's really useful if you're knitting entrelac, where you only have a few stitches on your needles and need to keep turning it. it's actually a lot simpler than it looks once you get into the swing of it, and it's strangely satisfying to knit 'the wrong way' and it still to look right!