Changing pattern from flat to circular?

How-to Questions
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I have a pattern that I want to change from knitting straight and then sewing up to knitting in the round.

The pattern is Co 50
Work in SS for four rows ending in a Purl row.
K1, yo,K2tog to last stitch, K1 (picot)
P
K
P
K

My question is if I am changing this to in the round should I cast on 48 (because I won’t be sewing it up) and not do the K1 at the beginning and end of the Picot row?

The next row would be a knit row since it is in the round.

Does this make sense and is it correct?

2

Except for the picot row, that’s what I would do unless I wanted ti slightly bigger, but not like a size bigger, I changed a baby bonnet to end in knitting in the round and I left the selvge stitches because the friend I made it for has large babies (like 9 lbs and up)

But for the picot row, I don’t know if you can start with a yo… can you? I’ve never seen that and I’m having a hard time seeing how it would work.

But you are taking 2 stitches off so you can start and end with a k1 and just have one less (yo, K2tog) as long as you don’t need a certain number of them.

What are you making?

3

Sounds correct to me. Should turn out fine.

4

But for the picot row, I don’t know if you can start with a yo… can you?

It’s an eyelet row, not a picot - picots are those little nibs on edges.

But yes, knitting in the round makes starting with the YO easier, you just have to have sts with a multiple of 2, and 48 will do as well as 50.

5

Ya know, I knew that… :doh:Up until that point I was seeing it in the round and after that point I was too, but when I starting thinking about the yo I was seeing it flat… sorry about that!

6

Well, you can do that eyelets on a row an inch or so from an edge, then turn under like a hem and it makes a picot-like edge. So maybe that’s what you were thinking of.

7

This is my own pattern for a plastic bag holder. It was the first pattern I ever did and had not learned how to knit in the round.

It is a picot row since I fold it over but am looking into how to CO a picot and BO a picot row. I figure I will practice to see if I can do it and how it will look.

I had worried about taking out the two knit stitches before the yarn overs but thought it would work since it is in the round.

Thanks for everyones help. I’m off to work on my Picots.:knitting: