I need a little help with my knitting on circular needles. I am to knit one round and purl the next round for 2.5". My beginning and ending of each round it smack in the middle of the yoke on the back of the sweater. This is leaving a distinct line down the middle of that yoke where I am changing from knit to purl etc. Is there a way to knit and purl that the line does not show?
Are the directions for circulars or are you adapting a pattern for straight needles?
The directions are for circular needles.
Maybe you have to tighten the first stitch of the round very well to join it in the round. That should leave a less visible line.
and i am doing the sweater on the ciruclar needles.
I have been doing that and it helped a little so it isn’t as noticable as it was on the cuffs and hem of the sweater. I didn’t know if there was a trick or not!
I will add this: the body of the sweater is knit every round. The hem, cuff and the yoke of the sweater is done in knit one round purl one round etc. There is no line when I knit every round. This line to me is because I bring the yarn to the front to purl the round and then to the back to knit the next round. i don’t know how else to explain the problem-the space between the end of the round and the beginning of the round changes with the yarn coming to the front or back.
Maybe you have the yarn in the wrong position when you bring it to the front? That happened to me a lot when I was learning purl stitch.
No, it’s the normal jog that you get when working in the round. It’s really more of a spiral so the last st in a round is higher than the first stitch. I try to make the beginning of the round on the side or by a `seam’ but I’m not sure you can with this. What I’ve tried and helps somewhat, is to slip the first st in the round, change the st, then work it at the end of the next round. Then you slip the next st for the next round (that’s st 2 in your round) and work it in the other st at the
end again. It works pretty well, just keep your stitch marker in the same spot - or you can move it over, depends on if you need to knit X sts from the beginning of the round to do something or not.
Thank you I will try that!