Okay got a question…
So I’m trying to start some DPN’s, and I am using 4, how do I move them from the one needle to the others… they just say : " divide upon 4 needles, using 25% on each"
I know that #4 should have the working yarn on it and should be on the right…
Past that I’m lost
The DPN video that Amy did shows you what to do, I think. First, you will take one dpn and slip 25% of your stitches to it, purl-wise (this dpn will have the cast-on tail on it). Then, you will let that dpn dangle while you take the next dpn and slip 25% of stitches to it, purl-wise.
Then you’ll arrange the needles so that you’re holding the needle with the cast-on tail in your right hand, the connecting needle is at the bottom of the triangle, and the other needle is in your left hand.
Then you’ll start knitting with the empty needle… you’ll use the stitches in your left hand to knit with, just like normal, but you’ll use the cast-on tail and yarn on the righthand needle to work the stitch with. The empty needle is the one that you will knit on to.
The video explains it much better than I can :oops: but hopefully that at least gives you an idea?
Ahh yes… there’s my problem… I didn’t look for the video first… you know … as long as I’ve been here… you’d think I’d remember that by now
:lol:
I like to just cast on onto each of the needles…I don’t know if that’s the “correct” way to do it, but my knitting hasn’t imploded or anything [yet].
I cast on to one needle and then divide them up.
And I like to cast on to a needle a size or two up from the regular needle, helps keep that cast on edge looser and easier to work the first time around.
Wanna borrow my KH video DVD? Doing the baby sock really helped me with doing a real one. I’m 75% done!
When I slip the stitches to the other DPNs I start with the end of the needle that has the first cast-on stitch on it, the opposite of the way Kristimetz does it. I doubt that it matters, it’s just a preference.