TO CLARIFY: I find that my 1x1 ribbing always looks neater on the wrong side. This video shows how I tidy up my one by one ribbing by making what would be the wrong side of my rib into the right side. After the initial short row to make it so I am working on the inside of my cuff I do no more short rows. I just knit from the inside. Please feel free to leave a comment if you need more clarification.

Thank you so much for sharing! This will be a game changer!

@birchandlily

5 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

Brilliant! I have been knitting for 40+ years and I have always noticed my ribbing looked better on the wrong side. Never thought to do this- but I will be doing it from now on. Thanks for teaching an old knitter a new trick!

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

You’re so welcome! It’s so fun that there’s always something new we can learn!

You are such a sweetie to show us this ribbing Have a great rest of the day !!! 😊💝🥰

I’ve been searching for a solution and thought about working from the wrong side. The German short row stitch is brilliant - solves the problem I anticipated in the round!

@birchandlily

6 ай бұрын

I hope it works well for you!

Lol… i just decided to abandon 1x1 and go for twisted rib. Maybe i’ll try this.

Beautiful ribbing…I can’t wait to try this. Thank you Amanda👏🏻

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

You’re so welcome!

Super helpful, thanks!

Thank you Amanda!!!

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

thanks for the visual Amanda, this was very helpful :)

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

I’m glad!

okay wow. This is completely new to me and looks amazing! I will def try this on my next sweater, thank you so much!!

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

You’re welcome! Something about the wrong side rib just looks so much better!

I have never heard of this before! I’m on a sleeve now so I’m definitely gonna try this!!! Thank you!!!!!!

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

I hope it works out for you! So crazy how the ws looks so much neater haha

🤯🤯🤯 OMG... genius!!! I have such. A sloppy knit stitch in ribbing so I always do twisted rib cuffs...which is nice too but I prefer the look of regular ribbing especially with the tubular cast off. I can't thank you enough for showing us this trick. ❤❤❤ Happy Holidays!!!

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

You’re so welcome! I hate the sloppy rib as well!

Thank you!!

Thank you so much very helpful 🧶🧶

Thank you! I'm getting ready to do this on my sock, so excited!

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

Let me know how it goes!

@teresaharp

7 ай бұрын

@@birchandlily oh my goodness, I love it! So much nicer and clean cut 😊. Gonna show my daughter tomorrow, she's a knitter too. Have a w/o derful night and Merry Christmas❤

Amanda, can you now show us the tubular bind off? It looks so professional! 😊

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

I can add that to my list for sure!

I want to learn to purl like you. Do you have an. Tutorial where you show it, slowly? I can barely tell what you are doing except your yarn stays in the back. That what Arne and Carlos do the name escapes my tongue this moment. Is everyone’s ribbing cleaner looking on the inside; would you say? Thanks Amanda. I hope you are having a great well deserved vacation.

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

I don’t right now, but this one should help you! It’s called “Norwegian Purling” kzread.info/dash/bejne/hmlow9KwgM7Ygso.htmlsi=6m-6CyU6n2S2cYII Honestly, everyone I’ve talked to seems to be neater on the inside. It’s strange!

@TrudySchwartzBurrill

7 ай бұрын

@@birchandlily Thanks, Stacy is always a good choice for instruction. I’m going to experiment with this for a bit and hopefully I can make it habit. My knits are looser than my purls, I must be overcompensating, lol. Have a very Happy Christmas.

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Episode request! I noticed in a previous episode you used to use lion brand wool ease. I would love an episode where you compare, feel, durability, shape of sweaters, made with less expensive yarn combinations versus sweaters made with more expensive combinations. My goal is to have a nice nice wardrobe, but not every sweater needs to be a $300 sweater…. I’d love a comparison of drape and comfort and a total cost roughly of each project. Thank you!

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

I haven’t knit any garments out of wool ease (mostly hats) but I’m currently working with some Cascade 220 and would be happy to share my thoughts!

@veronicazimmerman3294

7 ай бұрын

looking forward to that video!! Thank you! @@birchandlily

Could you use this technique when starting with ribbing for a sleee or sweater by doing a cast on row, knit 1 row beginning with that short row snd continuing as your directions? Thank you.

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

What I would do is knit your cuff as normal then flip it inside out so that the ws is now the outside, do a short row to get working back in the correct direction, and just start your sleeve as normal!

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Thank you for this 😊 What about casting on for a neckline? How would you rib that on the wrong side? Would you add the German short row at the end of the ribbing to flip it back? Have I just answered my own question? 😂

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

You got it!

Are you keeping the yarn in the back (as if to knit) when you are doing a purl stitch?

@birchandlily

2 ай бұрын

Yes! I am "Norwegian purling" in this video

Wonderful tutorial, Amanda, although I'm not entirely clear, I'm going to trust that if I follow what you did, I'll get the same beautiful ribbing result you get. Question(s) If I'm knitting the ribbing on a sock, will I, first, cast on, then add a plain knitting row before beginning the 1x1? And when I complete the 1x1, will I just start the leg/leg pattern without doing a German short row? Thank you so very much!

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

I would knit your cuff normally, flip it inside out when you’re done all the rows you want, then do the German short row to get you oriented in the right direction for the rest of your sock. Hope that makes sense!

@rivkah1621

7 ай бұрын

I'll give it a go. Thanks so very much and Merry Christmas!@@birchandlily

Very interesting. Would this work for a cuff of a top down sock?

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

Yes! You might even find it helpful to knit your cuff normally, flip it inside out when you’re done, then do the German short row to get you oriented in the right direction for the rest of your knitting.

@sallyickes6953

7 ай бұрын

Wow! That would make those 1x1 ribbed hats look so much better-imho!

@RKCALGARY

7 ай бұрын

@@birchandlilyI will try that. Great idea!

Oh! you use a Norwegian purl.

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

I do! Totally saved me from all the wrist pain I was getting when I purled!

My mind is really blown because I don’t understand! What does the German short row have to do with the ribbing? I am severely confused. I have watched several times and I don’t know if I am missing something obvious or what. My mind is not computing I guess🤷🏻‍♀️

@gfontaine1000

7 ай бұрын

I think it is so she can work on the the wrong side of the work. I heard her say in a previous episode that her wrong side ribbing is neater than her right side. Hope that helps!

@birchandlily

7 ай бұрын

Correct. My right side always looks messy, and my wrong side looks neat. This moves the wrong side to my right side! I apologize if I missed saying that at some point. I’ll add a pinned comment to the video to hopefully help others!

@claudiacampa4774

7 ай бұрын

That is such a great way to do ribbing, could you just bind off on the wrong side?