Circular knitting = reverse stockinette? - Page 2

Shandeh · 04-17-2007, 03:57 PM

I can't help being the creative sort.

suzeeq · 04-18-2007, 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by Shandeh

I knit with my needle tips at the bottom of the circle, so my stockinette is always on the outside.

I just made a little drawing to show where my needles go when I'm knitting in the round. The red lines are my needle points. The green part is the outside of the fabric, which is stockinette. The yellow part is the inside of the fabric, which is reverse stockinette.

I guess it's how you hold your work. I knit on the outside, but the tips are at the top; the bottom and my knitting sit in my lap. Basically, the tips are closest to me.

sue

Shandeh · 04-18-2007, 03:30 AM

Well, the knitting lays in my lap too. The tips of my needles are closest to me too.

Some people knit at the top of the circle, with the "open" part of the hole facing themselves, so the right side of the garment is on the inside of the hole. You're holding it with the "open" part of the hole facing out to the the rest of the room.

You and I knit exactly the same.