Mastering Left and Right Twisted Stitches
I love twisted stitches!
I was hooked from the first time I tried this stitch, and they’ve become one of my go-to textures when I’m designing (just check out all my patterns featuring them below!).
They are such a simple way to add delicate details to a project, and once you have mastered the basic stitches, there are endless possibilities for patterns you can make. It’s almost like drawing with your yarn. I love how they give an embossed look to the fabric, and it reminds me of letter-pressing, something I’ve always been a little obsessed with.
My technique for doing the left-leaning twisted stitch has changed slightly over the years, so I created this tutorial that I shared on Instagram when I released Florrie and Florence. Check it out to see how easy twisted stitches are, and if written instructions are more your style, you can take a look at those below!
Written Instructions:
1/1 Right Twist
Insert your right-hand needle into the next two stitches on your left-hand needle knitwise.
Loop your working yarn over your right-hand needle and pull the yarn through, as if you were about to knit them together. Do not slip the stitches off the left-hand needle.
Insert your right-hand needle into the first stitch on your left-hand needle knitwise once more.
Loop your working yarn over your right-hand needle, pull the yarn through and slip both stitches off the left-hand needle.
1/1 Left Twist
Before knitting the left twist stitch, I find it creates a neater stitch if you twist the stitches first as follows:
Slip the next two stitches from your left-hand needle to your right-hand needle. Slip each stitch knitwise, one at a time.
Slip the two stitches back to your left-hand needle. Slip each purlwise, one at a time. The two stitches are now twisted and ready for the 1/1 Left Twist.
Knit into the back of the second stitch on your left-hand needle.
Loop your working yarn over your right-hand needle and pull the yarn through. Do not slip the stitches off the left-hand needle.
Insert your right-hand needle into the back of both stitches on your left-hand needle.
Loop your working yarn over your right-hand needle, pull the yarn through and slip both stitches off the left-hand needle.