Monday, February 16, 2009














I'm not sure these are helpful. The first shows the position of yarn and needles when you start knitting in the round. The second shows the round in progress. Note that you pull the back (non-working needle) so that the stitches are in the middle of the needle, and the ends just hang down in the back of the work.

3 comments:

Nina said...

The putting the knitted stuff in the middle of the other needle was the key discovery! That helped me make this work...I had almost finished the neck when I messed up last time (4th try) so next time is the charm!

Nina said...

When/ how do you join into the round? Just when you're knitting the 2nd row? Or do you join it up before you start? Also...why do you have such a long tail? Is that necessary?

Lory said...

You join the round after you've done the cast-on row, and divided it between the 2 needles. Then you join, and knit the first row of the work. As I said, for this pattern I think it would be easier to knit a row without the yarnover pattern.

My long tail is just because I over-estimated how much yarn I would need for casting on. But you do want all ends to be several inches long. Otherwise they are too short to sew in the ends.