I’ve been working on my first sock (as many of you probably already know). I finished the ribbing at the top and have completed three pattern repeats (rows 1-4 in the pattern – baby cable rib).
I noticed that the cable rib is on the inside of the tube. Is this going to be okay later?
I thought about turning the sock inside out (or right-side out), but I’m concerned that if I do that, the pattern will continue to be knitted on the inside. Do you follow?
When you hold your needles in a ‘round’, you need to be holding them so that the two needles you are working with at any given time are held closest to you. I’ll use the example again which was given by Ingrid, I believe, of a drinking glass. When you take a drink from a glass you drink from the edge closest to you. Same with knitting in the round – if you knit with the needles that are furthest from you, you will wind up knitting on the inside of the tube.
The way I see your diagram, the needle you have numbered #2 is closest to your body as you hold the needles, right?? So holding them that way, when you start knitting stitches off of needle #1 you will be making your stitch pattern on the inside of the ‘triangle’ of needles. When you hold them, they should be situated something like this:
__
\ /
\ = needle 1
__ = needle 2
/ = needle 3
Then when you go to knit stitches off of needle #1, your stitch pattern will be on the outside of your tube.
My friend does this too. Basically it means that rather than drinking from the edge of the glass closest to you (great anology) you are drinking from the edge opposite.
I am not sure its really a huge problem - you can just turn it right side out when complete.
Thanks Bill, but I if I push the tube down, then the right side is inside.
I guess, basically, I need to know if this will affect the rest of my sock. Will it matter when I get to the toes and have to graft them together? When I’m done, I’ll have to turn the sock rightside out.
Also, if I leave the sock rightside in, then I have to knit with the two needles at the back. It’s really weird, but that’s the way, somehow, things got set up.
I’m still trying to figure out how I did it. :??
If there’s a hard way to do something, that’s the way I manage to do things. :teehee:
Now I’m confused - you say that when the pattern right side / the outside is, well, outside, and you knit from the needles closest to you (like the edge of a glass that you drink from), the sock comes out the top of your needles? The usual way is to do it as I describe, right side out and working on needles closest to you, and you get the tube coming down toward your tummy.
However, whatever way you’re doing it, the sock will still be the same. I have sometimes found that the part of the sock hanging down gets in the way and have seriously considered pushing it ‘inside-out’ to fix that. I don’t think you’ll have problems in the construction of the sock, you’re knitting it the same way, it is just sitting differently. Hey, this way, you can do a three-needle cast-off instead of grafting if you want, and won’t even have to turn it inside out!
If you’re bothered by this, though, just push the tube through the needles so it is right-side out, and knit normally (on the needles closest to you), you should get it right this way. There will be some tutorials on the net http://www.az.com/~andrade/knit/circular.html
scroll to the bottom of the page for that one, or watch the KH video on knitting on DPNs.
Sarah
Now I’m confused - you say that when the pattern right side / the outside is, well, outside, and you knit from the needles closest to you (like the edge of a glass that you drink from), the sock comes out the top of your needles? The usual way is to do it as I describe, right side out and working on needles closest to you, and you get the tube coming down toward your tummy.
However, whatever way you’re doing it, the sock will still be the same. I have sometimes found that the part of the sock hanging down gets in the way and have seriously considered pushing it ‘inside-out’ to fix that. I don’t think you’ll have problems in the construction of the sock, you’re knitting it the same way, it is just sitting differently. Hey, this way, you can do a three-needle cast-off instead of grafting if you want, and won’t even have to turn it inside out!
If you’re bothered by this, though, just push the tube through the needles so it is right-side out, and knit normally (on the needles closest to you), you should get it right this way. There will be some tutorials on the net http://www.az.com/~andrade/knit/circular.html
scroll to the bottom of the page for that one, or watch the KH video on knitting on DPNs.
Sarah
This is one of those situations where words are inadequate – someone sitting next to you could show you in a few seconds. It’s a little frustrating, isn’t it? A lot of people go through exactly what you’re doing right now – it’s very common for knitting in the round, along with twisting your stitches. If you have a local yarn shop, you could probably drop in there and they would be able to tell you right away how to orient things properly.
Let’s see if this makes sense to you: in picture A, you had the right side out. Put the sock like that. Move your working needle (the one the next stitch would go to) to your left hand, keeping the right side facing you. The other two needles should form a “v” pointing away from you. Take the empty needle in your right hand and start knitting. As you proceed, the tube will grow down.
But if it still doesn’t make sense, you can keep knitting inside out till you get to your grafting. At that point, if you turn the sock inside out (or actually, right side in), you can proceed to graft like normal. (Actually, I’m not sure how turning a heel will go in this inside-out way. My head hurts just thinking about it!)
Let’s see if this makes sense to you: in picture A, you had the right side out. Put the sock like that. Move your working needle (the one the next stitch would go to) to your left hand, keeping the right side facing you. The other two needles should form a “v” pointing away from you. Take the empty needle in your right hand and start knitting. As you proceed, the tube will grow down.
Actually, when I put the needles that way, the working end of the yarn is the last stitch on the right side of the needle, so I have to rotate the needle so I can work off of it. As I said, I have no idea how this happened. It’s very strange, but not abnormal for me. :wall:
I’ve decided to just knit it RS out, with the sock coming towards me. When I finish this one, I’ll make sure I take my time casting on and setting up sock #2.
