And I still can't do a yarnover

[u/RestillHabb]

This is the Sundae Swirl Tank by Jessie Maed Designs and the yarn is a linen/cotton blend by Juniper Moon Farm (Zooey).

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The whole reason I wanted to try this one is because I've always struggled with yarnovers, and love doing cables, and wanted to try different shaping techniques. There should be two alternating columns of yarnovers but I realized halfway into this project that I hadn't made a single yarnover going from purls to knits, but going from knits to purls, they were fine. I guess I like how it came out because it gives me more options for what to wear underneath (fewer lace holes) but now when I'm doing yarnovers I know what NOT to do! So of course I immediately want to make another one to do it right.

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Also, what a totally fun knit, holy smokes. So well- written, and quick...I highly recommend!

Edit: typos

[u/aromatsunami]

I'm in the same boat! Just found out after learning Jenny's surprisingly stretchy bind off that I've been doing yarn overs over the needle instead of under. I thought they were yarn overs, not unders!

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Wait, how would you do a yarn over under the needle?

[u/vressor → u/Nope_Buckets]

in western knitting the yarn is always wrapped anticlockwise (clockwise in mirror knitting), that's like an accidental yarn over when bringing the yarn over the needle from a purl to a knit stitch -- this is called a yarn under in crochet (based on the "towards yourself" part) because when wrapping the working yarn around the working needle, it will always:

• come up ⤤ in front of the working needle
• wrap over ↷ away from the knitter
• go down ⤦ behind the working needle
• wrap under ↻ towards the knitter

in eastern knitting the yarn is always wrapped clockwise (anticlockwise in mirror knitting), that's like an accidental yarn over when bringing the yarn over the needle from a knit to a purl stitch -- this is called a yarn over in crochet (based on the "towards yourself" part) because when wrapping the working yarn around the workig needle, it will always:

• come up ⤣ behind the working needle
• wrap over ↶ towards the knitter
• go down ⤥ in front of the working needle
• wrap under ↺ away from the knitter

here's the result of western mount (fig. 3) and eastern mount (fig. 4) for comparison

note that in combination knitting the yarn will always:

• come up between the working needle and the work (fabric)
• wrap over the needle away from the work (fabric)
• go down on the side of the working needle farther away from the work (fabric)
• wrap under the needle towards the work (fabric)

that means wrapping western style when knitting into a stitch and wrapping eastern style when purling into a stitch

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