Circular Knitting Tutorials

Transcript So let’s explore some easy projects for a first time circular knitter. You’ve already got a lot of options ahead of you because when you knit circularly you don’t have to seam anything, you don’t have any wrong sides to worry about, so it’s actually easier to start circular knitting than it is to …

Transcript I’m going to show you a trick for making jogless stripes in the round. Now, what a jog is, is when you finish one round and you start the next round and if there is a color change between those two rounds, it’s really obvious that the colors don’t line up. So what you …

Transcript If you would like to do small diameter circular knitting, you have a couple options. The two circular needle method is great for making tiny diameter things. You could get as small as you wanted to with down to just like two stitches on this side and two stitches on that side with two …

Transcript I’m going to talk to you a little bit about large diameter circular knitting. When you use a really, really long needle like this one, you use it in exactly the same way as you would a shorter circular needle. So you’re going to be knitting around and around and around with the tail …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to prevent and fix circular knitting inside out. Now, there are times when you would want to knit inside out for circular knitting, mainly when you have to do a lot of reverse stockinette which means from the outside you would need to pearl every single round. Not …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to prevent ladders in your circular knitting. You don’t have to worry about ladders showing up when you’re knitting on a short circular needle because there’s no break between the needle points. However, when you’re knitting circularly where you divide the number of stitches over either either side …

Transcript Now I’m going to show you how to fix some mistakes in circular knitting. These tricks also work for knitting flat with straight needles. So what I’ve got here is I’ve put in some accidental purls here in my c of stockenette [?]. So I’m going to show you a couple different methods of …

Transcript I’m now going to show you how to prevent a twist when you join to knit in the round. So I’ve just cast on all my stitches. And the easiest way for me to make sure there’s no twists is to align all my little cast on, my ridge here, in the inside of …

Transcript I’m going to talk to you now about how to knit a circular gauge swatch for your circular knitting project. So when you knit a gauge swatch flat, you knit the front and then you knit the back in the pattern that you want to take your gauge measurement in. So for the most …

Transcript I’m going to show you know how to fix stitches that are too tight. This tip is good for circular knitting as well as knitting on straight needles, but it’s especially important to not have tight stitches in circular knitting, because of this part of the needle here, this is called the ” Join,” …

Transcript Let’s say you did your best to cast on and join to knit in the round without getting a twist, but you knit the first couple of rounds and you discover there is a twist. It happens to the best of us, not to worry. You can fix it without needing to go back …

Transcript I’ll show you now how to count rows on your circular knitting project. If you’re just knitting for a long length, like if you’re doing a sleeve and you don’t need to keep track of row number this, row number that, you can just knit and measure with your measuring tape when you think …

Transcript So now I’ll show you how to keep track of your beginning of your round when you’re knitting circularly. It’s pretty easy to keep track of the beginning of your row when you’re knitting flat because you’re back at the beginning of your row of stitches again and at you’re at the end of …

Transcript So now I’m going to show you how to increase when you’re knitting in the round. There’s really nothing different about increasing in the round as opposed to when you’re increasing flat. You just have to figure out what kind of increases you want and where you want to put them. So if this …

Transcript So, I’m going to show you how to work decreases on a circular needle. The thing to remember is that there is no edge. Right? Because if we’re knitting in the round, there’s no right edge or left edge to have to balance decreases on. But there are a few different ways of doing …

Transcript Now I’ll show you how to knit in the round if you are a continental knitter or a left-handed knitter. Now this has nothing to do with your actual handedness. You can write with a pen or a pencil with your right hand and be a left-handed knitter or you can be a left-hander …

Transcript Now I’m going to show you how to join to knit in the round using the two circular needle method. Just like before, I’ve cast all my stitches on to one circular needle. This is my most recent stitch that I’ve just made. This is stitch number one. What I’m going to do is …

Transcript Now I’m going to show you how to join knit in the round using the magic loop method. Just like the other ones, you want to cast all your cast on stitches on to one side of the needle. This is going to be a magic loop, obviously. I’ve got my long 40 inch …

Transcript So now I’m going to show you how to join to knit in the round. This is so easy and so fun, and it’s what takes you from knitting flat to knitting circularly. So now I’m going to show you how to join the knit in the round on a short circular needle. So …

Transcript So, with double-pointed needles, it’s a little less straightforward. You’re going to go ahead and cast on your key number of stitches onto one circular needle. So, for this, I’ve cast on 30, because that’s really, really easy to distribute on three needles. So, all 30 are here, and then this is the last …

Transcript I’m going to explain to you how best to distribute your stitches when you’re working in the round on DPNs-double pointed needles. You don’t have to worry about that when you’re knitting on a short circular because all of those stitches are together on the same cable. When you’re using magic loop or two …

Transcript So I’m going to tell you how to avoid a jog when changing colors in circular knitting. I’ll just show you what a jog looks like and explain to you why we get them. So if you look up close here right this row this is the end of the round in my headband …

Transcript When we are knitting circularly, we are actually knitting kind of like a helix. We’re spiraling up and up and up. So if you think about a sheet of paper. If you are knitting flat, you would be working up in rows like lined notebook paper. You would do one line and then the …

Transcript So this is a really, really cool tool, a great trick to know, for people who like to knit in the round. There are so many benefits to knitting garments in the round. Like if you are knitting a sweater, you can do it all in one piece. You don’t have to do a …

Transcript Right. I’m going to show you how to add a color to your circular knitting project. This is one of my favorite things to do because I love to knit stranded color work. I’m going to be showing you how to add a color to this headband, which is a pattern that I have …

Transcript So I’m going to show you how to read knitting charts for circular knitting. If you already know how to read charts in flat knitting, then this will be no problem to adjust, but I’ll also explain this for new chart readers so that you can get an idea of what it is to …

Transcript So now I will show you how to bind off in the round. I am gonna be starting just from this kind of arbitrary point because I am not really knitting a parent here that has start and stop. This just a lining to the hat I am making so lets say this is, …

Transcript So I’m going to show you a great ribbing that’s easy to knit in the round. It’s Two by Two, so that’s knit two, pearl two. Here’s an example of knit two, pearl two. It’s at the top and the bottom of this really simple headband pattern that is available on my website. It’s …

Transcript So I’m going to show you how to do One By One Ribbing in the Round. That means knit one, pearl one, knit one, pearl one. Here’s an example of what one by one ribbing looks like. This is the bottom of my Arrowmont mitten pattern which is for sale on my website. And …

Transcript So you may know that in order to get stockinette in the round, you just knit and knit and knit and that’s what comes out. So in order to get reverse stockinette what you would have to do is pearl every round. Now, there’s nothing wrong with the pearl stitch. It’s not inherently harder …

Transcript So when you knit on straight needles, if you want to get a nice, smooth stockinette fabric, you have to knit on the front side and then pearl on the wrong side of the fabric in order to get stockinette. But in circular needles, you only have to knit around and around and around. …

Transcript All right. I’m going to explain to you how to knit garter stitch in the round. So this is one area where circular needles are… require a little bit more thinking from you than do straight needles. You know that most of the time working on circular needles is much easier because if you …

Transcript So there’s this really cool method of knitting in the round, where you use two different circular needles. I love this method. It’s how I first learned to knit socks, and I’m very fond of it. Some people think it’s simpler than Magic Lube. Some people don’t. But it’s great for knitting any diameter. …

Transcript So now I get to show you how to knit with a long circular needle which is called popularly the Magic Loop method. This is my magic loop here. These are my long, these are 40 inch long circulars, and I’m going to show you on a sock which means they’re going to be …

Transcript So, I’m going to show you how to work with a circular needle using the traditional method. Of course traditional means different things depending on what part of the world you are from. For example in some parts of the British Isles traditional circular knitting was done on really long double points, I’m not …

Transcript All right. I’m going to show you how to cast on for circular knitting. What you need is the yarn you’re going to use for your project and the circular needle that you’ve chosen to work with your project. So, I’m going to be doing the long tail cast on. You can feel free …

Transcript In this video I’m going to show you what you need to know to be able to knit in the round on double pointed needles. Now a lot of people feel really intimidated by projects on double pointed needles because there is a lot going on here. There’s all these points. There’s all these …

Transcript So I’m going to show you how to join a new ball of yarn while you’re knitting in the round. There’s a couple different methods for doing this. Everyone’s got their own ways that they prefer, but I’ll show you the way that I always use that yields me great results. So I’m going …

Transcript So, it is so easy to knit on circular needles. You’ll wonder why you haven’t been doing it yet. It’s actually, I think, much easier than knitting flat on straight needles where you have to think about a right side and a wrong side, and if you want stockinette you have to knit on …

Transcript So how do you know what kind of circular needle to use for your project? Well, there’s two main ways to think about this, and one is to think about the size of the project that you’re knitting, and the size of the yarn that you’re using. So your yarn is a great place …

Transcript So I’m going to explain to you the difference between knitting in the round on circular needles and knitting in the round on double pointed needles. This is a point of some debate between knitters because there’s a lot of preferences and opinions out there so I’ll just give you an overview of some …

Transcript Hi, I’m Jessica, and I’m going to show you a little bit about circular knitting. First of all, the difference between circular knitting and flat knitting is that in circular knitting, you’re knitting around and around and around, and you’re never stopping to turn and go back and work the wrong side like you …