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I sure hope they are still around! I think it was a member on craftster.org, which is no longer, sadly.
At the risk of looking like an actual lunatic, please allow me to share my preferred way to visualize the “legs” of a correctly-seated and twisted knit stitch: https://i.imgur.com/qSpPd18.png
Not sure if that will make any difference for you, but the visual is always entertaining to me.
Ohhh my goodness, I really needed that laugh. If I had a printer, that would go on my wall. Amazing.
Looking at this, my first thought was, "Oh, so they're posting up heavy/leaning on their right leg...." and I think I know what my problem is now.
It's because I spent a college semester looking at x-rays and memorizing body quadrants, etc. and when you're talking about a patient, they're facing you, so it's flipped. Your left side is their right.
It took me ages to stop messing up notes/homework, but once I did, it became permanent. And now I'm a 30+ adult that routinely confuses their own right and left hand. It is both funny and humiliating.
I'm still saving this, though. It's mine. Maybe if I physically mirror the position every time I reference it, it will eventually stick. Or perhaps sing the hokey pokey. I'll figure it out. Leaning on invisible wall in direction of needle.
Haha, at the very least you could get in some deep lunges while knitting. I should probably add a caveat that the picture applies if you’re knitting in a western style. I think there are some other styles where you sit the stitches in the opposite direction and knit through the back loop. Not to complicate things further!
Maybe it’s just easier to take all the directionals, out of it and say that if knitting the stitch causes him to cross his ankles you know you’ve twisted it :)