how do i know when my stitches are becoming circular, because rightnow there flat and squred looking. :wall:
Do i have to push the yarn on to the plastic part? and starting knitting from there? : :?? :shrug:
Not sure what you mean… How many stitches do you have, what are you trying to do, and can you put up a picture?
sue
Circular knitting mean you’re making a tube. You do that by casting on, then instead of turning your work around you just start knitting and it’ll attach the stitches together to form a tube.
I’m trying to make a striped hat (red& yellow) on circular knitting needles.
i dont have a camera at the moment, so i cant really show you what it looks like . So heres what i did:
I casted on 20 loops, and began knitting the yellow yarn. then i did the Duplicate Stitch Join for the red yarn, then i stoped knitting .
I noticed that the yellow yarn was not in a circular formation.
do i make a tube and the sew it together ?
I was looking at the On two circular needles, another popular method.
video and im lost :shrug:
The Large Diameter Circular Knitting video shows you how to join to knit in the round.
Basically you cast on, and have the working yarn on the right needle and the first cast-on stitch on the left needle and you knit that stitch. That will join them.
You need to have the right length circular needles, though, or your stitches won’t reach from tip to tip. Most adult hats are started on a 16-inch needle. If your stitches don’t reach all the way around, then you can use dpns, or two circs or magic loop.
Unless you’re using really thick yarn and large needles, you need more than 20 stitches so the CO loops go around the needle better to join. You probably need anywhere from 70 to 90 sts, depending on your needle size.
sue