No matter what, on the right side and the wrong side, you will insert your needle into the "leg" of the stitch that's coming over the top of the needle and is closest to you. What if your stitches are facing the other way? The most likely culprit is that you are wrapping your yarn the wrong way around your needle on either the knit side, the purl side, or both. You should always wrap the yarn counterclockwise around your needle.
If a row of purl stitches is worked and wrapped the yarn the wrong way—which is much more common with continental knitters knitters who hold the yarn in their left hand —when the work is turned to knit a right side row, the stitches are facing the wrong way. This can result in this row of stitches being twisted, because when you wrap the yarn the wrong way the stitch becomes mounted on the needle incorrectly. When your stitches are mounted incorrectly , you are more likely to twist them.
The stitches face the wrong way, and if you were to work the purl stitch with the mount facing the wrong way then would twist the stitch closed, the resulting stitch would be too tight and uneven.
Below is a swatch where the purl stitches have been wrapped clockwise, resulting in the following row of knit stitches ending up twisted. The fabric looks less even, and you can see those twisted rows shifting to the right just slightly. Twisting your stitches will affect the texture of your finished item , and also, possibly, the finished size. If you consistently twist on either a knit or purl row your rows may elongate slightly.
Your finished items may then come out too long. If you consistently twist both rows, your stitches become too tight.
So much so, you may find they are difficult to work. Your finished items may come out too small. When you consistently wrap the yarn counterclockwise, and your stitches are always mounted with the left leg in front, your stitches will come out even. As MB wrote in the comments: " There's one detail I don't understand yet--why does it matter if the yarn twists?
What a great question! Yarn, of course, is twisted in its very nature--that's how it's made. Specifically, yarn involves imparting twist to overlapping lengths of raw fiber--the twist holds the fibers in place. In other words, yarn is twisted out of raw fiber--no twist, no yarn. The problem is therefore not twist itself, but too MUCH twist--overtwist as it is sometimes called.
Spinners, both hand- and commercial- have come up with clever, clever ways of restraining the power of the twist to the yarn itself, so that the twist does not cause problems in the finished fabric. Yarn made of several plies i. However, sometimes these spinning strategies do not succeed, or sometimes we knitters inadvertently add excess twist to yarn by winding and re-winding yarn, center-pulling each time. Does that make sense? Just try to loosen your hold on the yarn and see if that works!
I had the same problem. I was having to turn the ball or the work to straighten it out. Alternating the way you turn the work also helps, though I always forget, and just turn it without thinking probably the same way everytime.
Right now, I am using both ends of my yarn held together to make a double strand. This causes the two strands to twist around each other a bit as I am knitting, so every so often I re-orient the ball to straighen them out.
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