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The most common form of combination knitting involves using Western knit stitches and Eastern purl stitches. If you already knit continental and you're comfortable reading English, then odds are you are a Western continental knitter. That means you wrap the yarn counter-clockwise around the right needle when forming stitches. Eastern knitters wrap the yarn clockwise. If you knit Western and purl Eastern, you will discover knit stitches that are oriented differently on the needle than usual. Western knitting usually results in the leading leg of a stitch being on the front of the needle. Eastern causes the leading leg to be on the back of the needle.

A video on YouTube shows a variation of the Eastern purl that is very similar to the Norwegian purl (with the yarn in back for purling). This version may form a tighter purl stitch than the version where the yarn is brought in front to purl.