1st try at circ needles...how to join to get started?!

#1

Hi,

Kathy in MO here. My next foray has been circular knitting needles. I’m doing a baby hat. All the patterns say ‘join for working in the round, being careful not to twist, place marker…’ Can’t find any instructions in books. I tried just going on to the first stitch the first time I came around to the marker, and knitting around. I’ve done about 3 rows and now it’s starting to look like one piece but in the first rows there is a definite space where the marker was. This is a knit cap in cotton so the edge is going to roll up. Shall I just weave in the end and kind of ‘sew’ the little gap together, assuming it might not show because of the roll?

What do I do to avoid this gap the next time?

Thanks!

#2

Hi Kathy, If you go to the thread ‘Double Pointed Needles’. One of the Mod’s on here has a video showing just how to do what you need to know.
And welcome to KH. and Happy New Year.

#3

You did just what you should, but you have to make sure the yarn snugs up the first and last sts. The video Indygirl mentions shows one method; I CO an extra stitch, slip it and knit the round doing a k2tog with the last stitch and the extra stitch.