Knitting Oslo Hat and at point wherw i have to turn work and knit on wrong side ,knitting in round…It is giving me purl rows on both sides…It is a stockinette hat with double brim
Looking at the project photos here, I see this, so there is indeed a section of reverse stockinette. Maybe to help with how the brim turns up?
Yes hat is right but when I turn and knit it gives me purl rows on both inside and out ..what am i missing?
Once you turn are you continueing to knit in the round? or do you keep turning at the end of a row? If you knit every round, one side should be stockinette and the other side reverse stockinette (Vs on one side, purl bumps on the other).
Maybe it would help to post a photo of your knitting?
I am doing magic loop..atbe that makes a difference??
It shouldn’t but if you’ve somehow flipped the knitting you may not be on the real WS. Place a marker on the RS of the knitting (outside of the tube) and when you turn, make sure the marker is now on the inside of the tube and you are knitting or purling as the pattern directs on the outside.
I will try that..tks
I’m not sure, as I don’t have the pattern, but I think you are supposed to turn your work and then knit in the round on the wrong side for a few rows. This would give you the knit Vs on the “wrong” side and purl bumps on the “right” side, which seems to be what that photo shows.
Yes, that looks like the pattern photos. You shouldn’t have purl bumps on both sides however after the turn.
Now I’m totally confused 
. Why work in the round have to be turned? Can’t we just knit purl rows instead turning, and what stitch is purl on both side? Or I misunderstood something.
Look at petiteknit pattern for Oslo hat
My thought is perhaps it is to avoid purling, some knitters detest purling so much that people will do anything to avoid them. Turning to work the WS in knit stitches to create reverse stockinette on the RS might be purl avoidance.
Purls on both sides sounds like garter stitch. The first row/round would show as a garter ridge I think.
Well, that’s just my thought on it. I wonder if turning makes a gap in the knitting.
Here’s a video about the turn and German short rows.
See if this video helps too. It’s more about the doubling of the brim but it gives an idea of the shaping. It’s a good question ZKOhio, why you can’t just continue without the turns but with a band of purls on the outside of the hat for a given number of inches.
It seems like you knit a double brim then knit the current stitches together with the cast on sts. The turn and change to reverse stockinette may be to keep purl bumps against the folded up brim. There would then be another turn for the top part of the hat back to stockinette stitch. Or else just switch from knits to purls on the outside of the tube.
The Petit Knits website is also supposed to have videos, maybe more on the construction of the hat.
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