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7 comments on “Knitting Through the Back Loop (ktbl)”

  1. 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.
    🙁

  2. 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!

  3. 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!

  4. 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.

  5. what does Knitting Through the Back Loop do? In what way is the result different to a regular Knit stitch?

  6. Daniel – yes, it does look different from a normal knit stitch. Knitting it through the back loop puts a twist on the stitch, and makes it stand up and “pop” out of the rest of the fabric more than a normal knit stitch.

    S t a c i

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