any other continental style combination knitters?

[Kirstyandgirls]

OK so I'm relatively new to knitting (about 2 yrs) and I've been looking into why my stocking stich was looking stripy and my stitches were uneven in all stitch patterns. My irl knitting friends said that I was holding my needles and yarn all wrong and thats why i couldn't control my tension.

Anyway so I figured out that i knit continental and when I looked at combined knitting the only difference with my knitting was that i didn't knit into the back loop to form a knit stich. So i did a swatch knitting into the back loop for all my knit rows on stocking stitch and it was so neat!:

So I'm still learning as now I have to convert the patterns to accomodate combined knitting.

Anyone out there know what I'm talking about? Anyone else knit this way?
If there are a few of us maybe we could start a combined knitters tribe

Kirsty x

[flapjack]

I'm a combination knitter when I knit continental. I don't get why you need to convert the patterns, though- a knit's a knit, a purl's a purl.

[Kirstyandgirls]

I think 'combination' refers to the orientation of the stitches, so certain instruction such as k2tog need to be reversed (ssk) so that the lean the right way.

I'm new to it all so still learning.

I've been swatching tonight and I've been having more luck with using a norweigian (sp) purl insted of combination knitting - I'm off to youtube some knitting clips

Thanks for replying
Kirsty x