A silly question on right & wrong

I really hate to ask another question so soon after my last one, but I'm learning so much by being here!

I missed one of the basics for knitting, especially when knitting on the round. When a pattern says Right side or Wrong side, ......take a pair of socks for instance. When I'm knitting a cable on the leg, the side facing me (the outside of the sock leg) looks rough. Yet when I peek inside the circle, the inside of the leg looks great. So obviously I'm knitting inside out when I knit in a round....correct? So then the right side of knitting is the side facing AWAY from you when you're knitting in a round? Also, dd asked for leg warmers for dance class which starts in two weeks. But she wants them done in electric blue chenielle. (Lion Brand Chenielle Thick & Quick). This is done as a straight knit, purl etc. then later sown with a seam up the back of the leg. But now that I've got about 3 inches stitched, I can no longer tell right side from wrong side. They look identical. Nor can I tell how many rows I have on here just by looking, because the chenielle is so thick that the actual stitches are hidden and both sides look identical. Is there a trick to telling right side from wrong on something like this?

Thanks so much, and sorry to bother everyone with this but I don't know where else to try.

Maureen

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Maureen In Vancouver, B.C.
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The "right side" is the side that will be seen by the viewing public when you're wearing the finished item. It matters not which side is facing you while you work as long as you remember "right side is what they see!".

If the "right side" is on the inside when you're knitting in the round you're managing to somehow join the two ends of the cast on inside-out. Presumably the tips of the needles are on the far side of the work but you're working off the left tip onto the right tip, yeah?

Really, this isn't a problem except when viewed by some other knitter who knits "right side out" and can't make the mental translati> I really hate to ask another question so soon after my last one, but I'm

Reply to
Wooly

Thank you, you've solved my problem! I'm left handed, so everything I knit according to a pattern comes out backwards from what the pattern says it should be! :) But yes, I AM happy with the finished product so what does it matter. (Whew!)

Maureen

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Maureen In Vancouver, B.C.

Handedness shouldn't affect how you join and knit in the round, honestly. I know lefty knitters who knit mirror image of me who knit in the round right side out. But as we've already agreed - if you can work the pattern and produce the desired result, who cares.

Reply to
Wooly

It may be a problem when you go to do the heel, but you can flip the sock inside out and it'll come out right. This happens not so much when you join, but when you start knitting with the tips away from you. If you look at that circle as being like a water glass, you want the needle tips to be closest to you, the side you'd `drink' from.

sue

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suzee

Maureen,

I don't know if the same applies to knitting as crocheting, but after a row (or round) or too place some sort of marker (colored string or safty pin) on the "right side" of your work as a reminder. I crochet and I sometimes use a bobbypin (hairpin) as a marker. : )

Christy

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vanmier

I am right-handed -- and my socks turn themselves inside out while I'm knitting the tube. When it's long enough that it won't turn itself back on its own, I turn it outside out. Just the way the fabric wants to go!

Remember: there is no wrong way! If it works, it's fine.

Cece

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Cece

That's my rule for all things in Life :-)

Mary

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Mary Fisher

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