u/Dangerous-Friend-498

I wanna thank everyone so much for taking the time to explain that I was twisting my stitches! I read all your comments and watched tons of videos, and now I get it! I can very clearly see the difference now.

I didn't frog the twisted portion, because this is a practice project, and I want the finished product to showcase my learning process. It's kind of like a journal of my learning process, in the form of a sweater :)

So, my grandma taught me the basics a long time ago, and I could only remember the way she purled. So I googled how to do the knit stitch. Long story short, I was knitting the internet way (western) but purling my grandma's way (eastern). Now I have a significantly deeper understanding of how stitches work. I know what eastern, western and combined knitting are!

I'm gonna stick to western style (Perdóname abuelita), because it seems like the internet is more familiar with that?

I'm working on my first knitting project! I'm making a very simple sweater I saw on TikTok https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSx8yshoP/ . It's made with rectangles, so I thought it would be a good idea for practice. I'm using scrap yarn, because I didn't want to use new yarn in case it doesn't turn out great.

I'm happy with how it's going! It's far from perfect, but I know that once I'm done with this, I'll feel confident enough to experiment with more complex patterns.

My grandma taught me the basics when I was a teenager, but I never finished anything, and I hadn't touched a pair of needles in 20 years or so.

My tension is somewhat consistent because I've been crocheting consistently for a while :)