Stockinette Stitch

How-to Questions
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Hi There,

I have two questions about the stockinette stitch:

  1. I know when knitting on straight needles, you knit on the right side, purl on the wrong side. When using circular needles, you just keep knitting and knitting. What about double pointed needles? I’m knitting a hat.

  2. If I am knitting 72 rows on straight needles, would 36 of those rows be knitted and 36 be purled? Row 1 would be knitted, row 2 purled, row 3 knitted, row 4 purled, and so on?

Thank you!

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Double pointed needles do the same as a circular needle, as long as your work forms a tube, to get stocking stitch you knit every round.
If doing it on straight needles, knit and purl each row alternately until you’ve worked as many rows as the pattern states, so what you wrote is pretty much correct!

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Thank you!

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