🥒 Cornichon à l'Anneth 🌿Dec 27, 2022
As someone inexperienced in identifying knitting stitched AND being a bit forgetful.. How do people like me remember if they have to knit or purl a row of knitting next? 🙈 I‘ve accidentally changed the pattern like three times already. 🤣 #knitting #neurodiverseknitting
Show threadHelen Lockhart Ripples CraftsDec 27, 2022

@dillspitzen As you gain more experience you'll learn to "read" your knitting. But here's hopefully a tip. When you start a row you'll have the working yarn on your right hand side. Have a look at the piece of fabric facing you. Is it smooth and kind of "flat" or is it textured and "bumpy". If it is smooth, you have to knit the next row. If it is bumpy you have to purl the next row. If you like, once it is light I'll get some photographs to show you what I mean.

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Show thread🥒 Cornichon à l'Anneth 🌿
@HelenLockhart does „right hand side“ mean „right side of the loop“ or „in my right hand“? because I always hold my working yarn in the left hand.
Dec 27, 2022 at 8:56amWeb
Show threadHelen Lockhart Ripples CraftsDec 27, 2022
@dillspitzen Okay, so as you're looking at that fabric the working yarn is on the right hand side of the piece of fabric. If you're knitting stocking stitch (i.e. one row plain, one row purl) then your next row will be a purl row because the "bump" on each stitch is facing you.
Show threadHelen Lockhart Ripples CraftsDec 27, 2022
@dillspitzen Here are 2 photos to show you what I mean. The LH photo shows what some refer to as the "right" side and the RH photo is the "wrong" side. But these can be misleading names as it depends what side you want to show to the world! But I digress. If the left hand photo is what faces you when you're ready to start a row then you need to do a knit row. If the bumpy side (right hand photo) faces you then you need to purl. This is always assuming you're knitting stocking stitch.