Comments on: Knitting Through the Back Loop (ktbl)

By: Pam

Pam — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:00:35 +0000

I have a pattern that says, “P2tog tbl.” The stitch I did looks just like this video. I can’t figure out how I would do it differently to make it a perl 2 together through back loop.

By: Tallguy

Tallguy — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:11:31 +0000

For that very reason, Frank, I feel that new knitters must get proper beginner lessons. Learning by yourself from a book or video almost always goes wrong; trying to un-learn someone and then teach them the proper method is just a waste of energy. The bad thing is that they go around trying to tell others that they know how to knit!! And teach others their wrong method too. Talk about the blind leading the blind!

By: Tallguy

Tallguy — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:10:43 +0000

For that very reason, I feel that new knitters must get proper beginner lessons. Learning by yourself from a book or video almost always goes wrong; trying to un-learn someone and then teach them the proper method is just a waste of energy. The bad thing is that they go around trying to tell others that they know how to knit!! And teach others their wrong method too. Talk about the blind leading the blind!

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:36:54 +0000

When I taught myself to knit, I knit like that normally. It wasn’t until I had been knitting for over 20 years that I realized I was doing it wrong. I had always wondered why my knitting always looked different from everyone else. I have since educated myself to knit properly.
And strange as it sounds, I have since met at least half a dozen knitters who did the exact same thing. I shudder to think at the people I taught to knit the wrong way.
Now my only problem is that I don’t hold the yarn properly, but I still keep an even tension through some miraculous grace from the universe. I don’t crochet the right way either.