nice!  before i heard it called combination, many years ago, i would tell people i "knit wrong, but it works out in the end."

This is the way my Granny, born on the westcoast in Sweden, taught me to knit.I didn’t know it had a name, so I’ve always called it ’Granny Olga’s knit and purl’. My teacher in handicraft in third class at school went completely mad trying to teach me ’the right way’, ( i e turning the yarn counter cloockwise round the needle when purling ) which ended up with me quitting knitting. I picked up knitting again at the age of 50, and I have been a happy knitter now for 25 years, practising both ways of purling. 😄

The beauty in knitting is that there is no such thing as a wrong way.  As long as your consistent with what you're doing throughout your project and you like the way it looks, who cares?  After all knitting by definition is just a manipulation of yarn in a consistent manner to create a piece of fabric.

My grandfather taught me to knit this way back in 1969. He was left-handed, as I am, so he taught me to tie shoes, embroider and knit. Of course, Gran would look at me knitting and tell me I was doing it wrong. Cue Grandpa saying:" Leave the kid alone! She's doing fine!" He always swore he was the Kittson County Champion Blanket Square knitter, in the under 10 class, for 1918. Still miss that old buzzard!

Im polish and this is how my grandma thought me to knit when I was a kid. I was so confused when I recently discovered that literally everyone else on the internet knits differently.

It seems that there are people who mean well, but think they know more when they don't know that Combination is as much a legitimate a knitting style as Western Continental. Eastern or Russian method is worth knowing also as they include some alternate purling which I use when knitting purl stitch in rounds such as in rounds for ribbing. I prefer Combination purling especially when knitting cabled patterns with a lot of reverse stockinette as I don't get "rowing out" which is those repetitive looser rows which can make reverse stockinette looking like you just didn't knit that part very well. I don't get that uneven reverse stockinette when using Combined purling.

There is always something new to learn with knitting and I love learning more things. With crocheting, there are so many different stitches and they are not hard to learn. Knitting can be similar. The more one knows about how the stitches are made, the easier it is to figure out how to make corrections or get better results or find an easier solution with many stacked decreases such as for a raglan sleeve. When I know I am having a K2TOG on the public side of the knitting, I will use a Western Continental purl for those two stitches (on the backside of the knitting) then I don't have to remount them, just out of convenience for myself.

I like to call those people who demand "you are doing it WRONG" as the "Knitting Police". But if they saw someone knitting Portuguese style, they'd say "isn't that interesting". Huh? Right or wrong knitting is result driven. If you do not like your result, then you use a technique which makes the knitting correct in that instance. Sometimes in knitting a twisted stitch is used decoratively like in Japanese knitting patterns. Shen you know what works and when to use it, it makes knitting all the more fun.

We should not be afraid to know more and improve our own knitting. Combination knitting is just beautiful knitting and it is one of the best ways to knit for the fingers if you have Arthritis. Hands can be rehabilitated from severe Arthritis such as mine were, by a change in diet (no dairy as I could not handle the protein) and Combination knitting. I was thrilled to find a way to knit which did not hurt. Now my hands feel so good I can do styles which sent shooting pains. Don't use them much but find it interesting to know anyway. Originally I knit English Flicking method, and I still use it but not often any more. I generally knit daily to keep the Arthritis as bay and up to 4 or more hours as is is "my Zen moment".

I once met a woman who was staring at me knitting when I was in a doctor's waiting room and I was working a cabled pattern (which looked beautiful) and she remarked to me "You knit wrong". I asked her: "What is the name of your knitting style?" She didn't know. So I cycled through the knitting styles I've learned seeing if I could help her identify how she knit. She asked me then as if I am a knitting teacher. I told her "no, but I know this for my own benefit, I suppose I could teach others, just hasn't happened yet. She never said thank you, she never told me my knitting looked beautiful. She was just negative. She walked away in a huff and never even said one word. Rather hurt my feelings. I was not in any way belittling of her.

Just don't let the "Knitting Police" spoil your day.

This is so helpful! I've been a continential combination knitter since learning to knit in German in the mid-80s. I usually naturally adjust my stitches, but now I totally understand why, that I'm not knitting "wrong" and can proceed with modified pattern instructions. 😊

It's not unconventional, it's the way most Eastern Europeans knit.  In the US, most people learn English style knitting, either throwing or flicking the working yarn that's held in the right hand.  I learned how to knit Combination style more than 60 years ago.

GAME CHANGER!! When I tried to follow regular videos my stitches were always twisted... Looking at knitting this way makes much more sense as I am no doubt a combo! 🤷‍♀️ Knowing I can manipulate the stitch when needed will help me immensely, THANK YOU!!

I am so glad I found this, you have saved my sanity. Now I truly understand. Many thank you's!

What an excellent tutorial! Over the years I had to figure these things out by myself, as I knit combination continental. Your video will save others much grief and trial and error!

I love combination knitting.  I also noticed at the end of your video your working yarn laid down on the table in a heart shape and I thought how appropriate.  Thank you for your video I watched it just to learn a bit more and enjoy someone else also knitting this way.

I started knitting this way after taking a Continental knitting class and being frustrated. I kind of stumbled on it, and discovered somehow what it was called. I was fortunate to take a class with the late and wonderful Annie Modesitt, who taught us that with decreases, it was more important to know how to fashion a decrease that leaned in the correct direction than which specific decrease the pattern called for. Her "Confessions of a Knitting Heretic" was self-published, and it's full of illustrations about how to translate Western-style pattern directions to Combination knitting.

I've been knitting this way for over 50 years.  It's fast and easy.  I don't even need to look at my work while knitting.  My stitches are smooth and even.

Thank you,  thank you, THANK  YOU!  I apparently  was taught  by a combination  knitter just over  fifty  years  ago  and have  been  doubting my technique  and defending  myself  ever since!

Really helpful for a newbie who just found out she knits combination style!

I just found out that what I randomly learned on YouTube was combination knitting. This video was very helpful, thank you!

So happy to have found this video!  I was among tjose who was doing this and thought I was doing some thing wrong.  I find this so much easier than straight western style.  Thank you for the clarification!

Yay!! This has a name!! I have been doing this for years and I love it. Had no idea it was a thing.

Wow, I've been combination knitting without even realising it! It's great to learn the reasons behind why I found  myself doing it that way as I learned - thank you!