Hello,
I am fairly new to knitting. Am trying knit a shawl with a pattern from a class.
The problem for me is that after knitting a while, I notice that I no longer have a flat knitted piece, but in the round. I don’t know how to not do the round. I have tried markers, but they just keep falling off.
Can anyone help me? I have ripped out total at least 10 times now.
Thank you, Vicki
So are you saying you are making a flat shawl and just using the circular to hold the large number of stitches? If that is what you are trying to do you need to use the circular just as you would straight needles. What you need to remember is to exchange the two ends of the circular in your hands at the end of each row. Finish a row and then put the end of the needle that is in your left hand into your right and the one in your right hand into your left hand. Be sure to take time to think of that at the end of each row and you’ll be knitting flat.
When you hold the needle tips together to knit look at where your working yarn is coming from. If it’s coming from the right needle it will join to knit in the round. So make sure the working yarn is on the left needle and your right needle just knits.