Hi, everyone I talked to another knitting friend of mine and she is going to help me modify a mitten pattern that I want to do. I want to make these mittens using the two circ method. However she wants me knit a gauge swatch in garter stitch before she can accurately modify it. How do I do this??
Please LOOK...gauge swatch
Cast on for a tube that would be however big you want your swatch to be, and knit it circularly then cast off when you’re done and measure your gauge off of it like that. This is because people’s tensions can be different when they knit circularly than when they knit flat, so you need to knit your swatch circularly to be accurate.
Thank you soo much I need to get started soon 
So I am going to knit in the round. She wants me to knit the swatch in gerter stitch would that be K1 row, P1 row because I’m knitting in the round. If so why is it reversed ( stockinette and garter stitch) when knitting in the round?? I don’t really understand
The purpose of the purl stitch when knitting flat is to place all the bumps on one side of the knitting so that the fabric appears flat on the front. A purl stitch is just a knit stitch done backwards. You notice how you go into the purl stitch in the opposite way, and how the yarn is in the front instead of in the back? It’s just knitting backwards. The same effect can be achieved if you knit right and left handed and never turn your work and just knit forwards and back across the front of your work.
SO! Why do you only knit to get stockinette in the round? Well, because you don’t NEED to put all the purl bumps on one side, because you don’t need to go back and forth, you’re just going in a spiral and thus always in the same direction. However, to create garter stitch then you have to purposefully put the purl bumps on both sides by knitting one round and purling the next and alternating like so.
I hope that helps you.