How To Knit Stitch Through Back Loop

To accomplish a twisted stitch without changing your row count, you can knit through the back loop. My favorite video demonstrating how you knit and purl through the back loop is from suzanne bryan.

What Does P2Tog TBL Mean and How Do You Knit It

Watch this video to learn how to k2tog tbl in.

How to knit stitch through back loop. K1tbl = knit 1 stitch through the back loop. She notes that working stitches through their back loops is useful not only for stitch patterns, but several decreases also are worked by knitting through the back loop. Knitting through the back loop just means that you're inserting your needle through the back loop.

Knit stitch through the back loop. To ktbl, start with the yarn behind your work insert the right knitting needle into the back of the first stitch from right to left This stitch is made in exactly the same way you'd make a stitch on the front part of the loop, you're just doing it in the part of the loop that is behind the needle.

To knit through the back, you will insert the tip of the right needle through the opposite side, the back side or the right side of the next stitch. When you knit a normal stitch, you insert your needle through the front loop as shown below. Simple decreases like knit two stitches together (k2tog) and slip, slip, knit (ssk) are found in a variety of patterns.

It is a subtle difference. To do this, all you have to do is insert your knitting needle into the back loop (as shown in the tutorial above), but insert it through both of the first two stitches on the needle. Insert working needle into the back loop of the stitched to be worked.

She highlights the location of the working yarn, and she shows the technique for both continental end english knitting. If you already know how to knit k2tog and how to knit through the back loop, this will be super easy. Knit through the back loop (ktbl) knitting through the back loop of a stitch on the left hand needle will twist, or reorient, the stitch as it moves onto the right hand needle.

Then, wrap the yarn around the needle and pull a new loop through. Repeat from *, end k1. Wrap the yarn around the needle counter.

Another easy single decrease that you’ll find is the knit two stitches together through the back loop (k2tog tbl) decrease. To knit a stitch through the back loop, jen inserts the right needle into the back of the stitch and then knits it. In k2tog tbl, the stitches are twisted and in ssk they are not.

Guest post by mark rougeux. It is similar in appearance to the ssk (slip slip knit). Transfer stitch to main needle.

K every stitch through the back loop. It is designed to twist the stitches and is used to add strength to things like the soles of slippers.the stitch is also called the twisted garter stitch. Repeat from *, end k1 tbl.

Twisting your stitches gives your fabric additional texture. In this video, jen lucas shows you just how easy this decrease is. It's the same with purling.

Knit 1 through the back leg of the stitch (the needle goes into back leg without going in front of left needle). Knitting through the back loops, twists your stitches. To knit through the back loop, you form the stitch in exactly the same way, but on the loop at the back of the needle instead of the loop at the front of the needle.

Insert your working needle into the stitch purl wise, exiting through the backside of the stitch. Then wrap your yarn and pull through the stitch as if knitting normally. Insert the right needle from right to left into the back of the stitch.

Knitting through the back is the same as the knit stitch, except for the insertion of the needle. Sometimes patterns require you to purl two together through the back loop. Example of stockinette knit through the back loop

Repeat from *, end p1 tbl. This really means that you will need to work into the back leg of the next live stitch. Video tutorials of how to knit and purl through the back loop.

It is, of course, the same loop regardless of where you go through it, and you enter it in the same way, from the front of the work to the back, you just go into the back part of the stitch instead of the front. Repeat from *, end p1. Knitting through the back loop can twist a stitch to make it firmer or untwist a stitch that has been incorrectly seated on the needle.

Insert your needle from right to left, with the rh needle behind the lh needle, lifting and spreading the back of the loop — the side of the loop on the opposite side of the needle. First in the second stitch on your left needle, then into the first stitch. Then pull the yarn through both stitches, just as you would for a normal k2tog decrease.

Hold the yarn in the back of your work as you would for a normal knit stitch. Working through the back loop of a stitch twists the stitch so it uses slightly more yarn than a standard knit stitch and will create a slightly tighter fabric. Purling through the back leg (loop) abbreviation:

You can turn the work a bit to increase your vision. Insert your right needle into the back of the first two stitches on your left needle from right to left. To knit through the back of the loop:

You’ll knit this exactly the same as above, but in this case, you’ll pick up two stitches from behind instead of just one. This twists the stitch and when combined with a purl, really helps it to stand out. Knit stitch in row below.

Knitting through the back loop (ktbl) can be a very frustrating stitch, but it doesn’t have to be. When looking at a live stitch, you will see that one. How to ktbl (knit through back loop):

Twisting the stitch also makes it pop away from the fabric a bit more than your standard knit stitch.