Knitting in the Round
chapter 7When you knit on circular needles, you
knit in rounds,not rows. Every round
is a right side row, so if you’re working
in stockinette stitch, you do not have
to purl.
Take care not to let the stitches get
twisted before joining your round.
If they are twisted and you knit a few
rounds, the entire piece of knitting will
be twisted. The only way to correct
this is to unravel all the way back to
the cast-on row.
1 Hold the end of the needle that the working yarn is attached to in your right
hand. Place a stitch marker after the last stitch that was cast on to mark the
end of the round.
How to Knit on Circular NeedlesKnit Using Circular Needles.
2 Use the needle in your right hand to knit the
first cast-on stitch from the needle in your left
hand, giving the yarn a firm tug (on this first
stitch only) so that the join is snug.
Knitting the first stitch joins the round.
3 Knit all the way around until you reach the
stitch marker. To begin the second round,
slip the marker from the left needle to the
right needle and knit the first stitch as in
step 2.