It is perfectly possible to knit cross stitch / twisted stich / plaited fabric with blunt needles (and a knitting sheath. It can be done as flat knitting or in the round. Just try every possible position and angle between the needles, and the last combination you try will work very well. With 1.5 mm blunt needles and dark 1,700 ypp thread, it can even be done in the dark, The blunt needles pop-in where they should and make it easy to feel what is going on.
As Cassandra said, "Beware of Greeks Bearing gifts, and knitting cross stitch in the dark". Well, if she did say that, she would have gotten the last half of it correct; and of course, she was under the influence of Apollo - god of Sunlight. 😊
In the last few weeks, I have ruined a lot of yarn learning to knit cross stitch. Actually yarn is cheap compared to the satisfaction of working this little math problem out for yourself. And, much of that yarn had been set aside as practice that I never intended to use on a real project.
Set up a swatch, and track (in your knitting journal!) how you enter the stitches in each row, and which direction you wrap the needle, and how this row affects the next row.
Done thoughtfully and purposefully, it can be done faster than the time you would spend in a class on the topic.
The hard part is getting good at knitting cross stich because that involves breaking habits and building new muscle memory. This is where most of your "waste" yarn will go.
And having broken habits, all of your knitting will slow down for a while. This does not bother me - I am changing knitting patterns to take advantage of the virtues of cross stitch, and I ultimately expect to produce better objects faster.
In one of your previous posts you mention the word “ouvre” . I think the word , written in French , would be “ouvré” , which means “ finely worked” . When switching from French to English the accents are generally lost .
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