Help with RS and WS

How-to Questions
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This is my second project and going well till I hit “shaping the crown” of hat. Pattern is in stitch n bitch pg 129 if anyone has the book. But … I worked 29 rows of k2 p2 and now says RS k2tog, p2 and carry on. Did that fine till I figured out what WS in next row meant!!! Wrong side! Lol. So now I have a ribbed tube and have no idea what side is what and furthermore if what I have been doing for 29 rooms is the side I’m suppose to be on… How do I set myself up to start on the wrong side? Flip it inside out?

Thanks for any help! I’m on a roll and its looking good…don’t want to screw up now!

Thanks courtney

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I don’t have the book/pattern, but…

sounds like you are working flat. Fortunately, ribbing looks the same from either side, so up to the point where you sarted shaping it really does not matter what was the rs/ws. Now that your are doing some shaping, mark the row that you started on with a safety pin (rs) and go from there, just to help you keep track.

ETA: Assumed flat because working in-the-round, one would usually always be on the RS.

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[B]So now I have a ribbed tube [/B]

Which have you been doing, knitting flat (get to the end of the row, turn, work the next row) or in the round (no turning and does produce a tube)?

I agree with RK that as you’ve been working in rib so far it doesn’t make a lot of difference which is RS until you start your decreases. If you truly have a tube the side facing you as you knit would be the RS.

ETA Does the pattern have a name? We might find it on www.ravelry.com to see what you’re working on.

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Maybe this one?

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Thanks guys! I have been working circular so I have a tube. The inside looks better than outside so I will call that RS if it does not matter. My next question is how do I do the wrong side? Do I just turn it inside out ??? If I call the side that I have been working the right side … My next rom is the “wrong side” how do I get there??? Just turn my tube inside out?

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On circular needle

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If you’re working on a circular tube, you’re always working on the RS. You’re never working WS rows at all. If you want to call the outside of the tube the WS you can do that and continue to knit on the WS. All you would need to do is switch the decreases. For example, where it says to k2tog on the k2 rib, you would purl two together on a purl rib. Keep checking the appearance of the RS though to make sure the look is what you want.

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Ahhhh.

So it would appear that the pattern is written for working flat (thus RS and WS), but you are working the hat in-the-round. That does change the semantics.

You can…

  1. turn the hat inside out to work the WS.
  2. leave the hat RS out, but reverse direction and work on the inside of the tube rather than the outside (tube will then be near you not away form you)
  3. or as Salmonmac said, reverse the decreases and work everything from the RS/WS
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[QUOTE=RochesterKnitter;1400415

You can…

  1. turn the hat inside out to work the WS.
  2. leave the hat RS out, but reverse direction and work on the inside of the tube rather than the outside (tube will then be near you not away form you)
  3. or as Salmonmac said, reverse the decreases and work everything from the RS/WS[/QUOTE]

If you pull the hat through the center opening of the tube, you’ll only change the position of the needles from being closest to you with the knitting resting in your lap to having the needles farther from you with the knitting closer to you (or vice versa). If you do that [I]and [/I]change directions, you’ll now be knitting on the WS, that is, the WS will be facing out. You’ll need to do something like a wrap&turn though to avoid a hole at the place where you change directions. Give it a try on a swatch just to see.