DPNs - cant stop knitting inside out! help please!

How-to Questions
1

I have started my first project on dpns and i am knitting the gloves inside out - i have restarted many times after watching the how to video but i am doing something wrong - any tips? thanks!

2

Check out that thread, Shandeh had a very nice way of explaining it. If you imagine your knitting as a clock, most of the times, people who knit inside out have their hands at 12 o’clock (with the rest of the circle below), instead of at 6 o’clock.

This being said, a lot of people just keep knitting that way, and turn the work once they’re done.

Hope that helps!

3

I can be easy to pick the project up again after a while and accidentally start knitting inside out. Just make sure when you start again that the right side is facing out and that the needles are always closest to you when you start…there shouldn’t be any knitting between you and the needles (like when you knit inside out).

4

From where you are now, flip the work inside out and turn it around so your needle tips are closest to you instead of away from you.

sue

5

You should be holding the needles like the second photo at this link.
http://www.knitty.com/issuesummer03/FEATtheresa.html

6

Generally, what I do, is after I’ve knitted a few rounds, is turn the work right side out, and keep knitting, though, i’ve found that it does make the piece a little looser, but not by much.

7

I think others may have given better explanations, but the way I always make sure I’m knitting “right side out” is to make sure when the work is joined that points of dpns where it joins are pointed towards me to the right and that I am knitting clockwise to the left going “upwards” and away from me around the circle. If I am using circs, I make sure that the starting end of the cast on is in front of me on the left needle and my working needle is the right one, again, with the “circle” on top.

I always just think of it as knitting around the outside of a tube where you start at the bottom and work clockwise upwards/away from you and around.

8

[COLOR=darkorchid]If you hold the needles like this, you’ll be knitting right side out. [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#9932cc]If you hold the needles like this, you’ll be knitting inside out.[/COLOR]