This is english style, or "throwing," which is how I knit. Continental style uses the right hand to "pick" for both knit and purl.

Hi - you can use the playback feature in your settings to slow it down to half- or quarter-speed, as needed!

@@knittingvortex Tried that didn't work for me sadly

Click the settings gear, then in the pop-up, click playback speed. Uncheck "normal" and instead click .25 (or .5, or .75).

Thanks - I'm glad it's helpful!

Glad it's helpful!

Nope! I'm working the circle "inside out" so it looks like I'm knitting backwards or counter clockwise; if I were to flip the work RS out, you'd see the direction of knitting is in fact clockwise. I like working inside out because I find it doesn't stretch the stitches!

@@knittingvortex I was going to ask the same question. Do you have a video showing how the "inside out" works?

@@aliciawalters4132 Not a specific video that addresses this topic, but if you watch above, you can see that I'm working around the "inside" of a circle - imagine many more rounds below, not just the CO and first round. I'm knitting the RS of the fabric, just like normal, but the circle of knitting is flipped "inside out" so that I'm knitting around the inside of the circle, instead of the outside. I like it because it doesn't stretch the work as much. If I were doing stranded knitting, however, where I might want to stretch the floats a bit, I might work conventionally around the "outside" of the circle. It depends on how tight I want the work to be!

Happy to be of help!

Do you mean alternately pulling up the surface crochet loop with two different colors? Sure, why not! The result would be a 2-color vertical stripe.

It sounds like your pattern already has had you bind off 2 stitches on the previous row? So when you get to that place, you CO 2 replacement stitches and continue. OR you can try the method described in my video, which will give you a tidier overall result.

Hi Holly; slipping the stitches knitwise when you're binding off for the buttonhole is just as you would do for an SSK decrease, and it makes for a neat, left-leaning bound off edge. If you slipped those sts purlwise, there would be some twist in the BO stitch when you pulled it over the next stitch, potentially making it look a bit wonky. In all the other places where you're slipping stitches, you do not want to change the orientation of the stitches but just move them from place to place, so just slip purlwise with leading leg in front.

It's my Plaidscape poncho, available on Ravelry: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/plaidscape

I'd try it by purling two together first - the stitch behind from the tuck, and the stitch on the left needle.

I'm not familiar with that pattern, but I'd suggest reviewing the instructions from the beginning to try to determine where the inconsistency in stitch count is coming from.

I was wondering if you have a tutorial on how to do this stitch on the purl side.

Hi Helen; yes you can absolutely use it for a cowl - you might want to take a look at my Ruckowl Cowl on Ravelry for an idea of how it can look. Glad the tutorial helped! www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ruckowl

KnittingVortex Fabulous, thank you so much for your reply; I will definitely check your pattern out on Ravelry. All the best Jennifer.

Try it by following the steps as depicted; it's very straightforward. The yarn position is exactly as described in the tutorial, and the CO is just a purlwise version of the knit-on cast on, as you might use to bridge a gap elsewhere. This cast on is used because it results in actual worked stitches (rather than just flimsy loops like you would get with a backwards loop CO) to close the buttonhole and make it stable.