Going from circular needles to double pointed

You will get some really informative answers from some of the people here who know what they're talking about.

Me, on the other hand... I can't knit with double pointed or with circulars, because I hold my needles weird (what they have called "crotch knitting" although I hold the right needle in the crease of my leg *not* my crotch), so trying to use double pointed could cause me some serious injury which I wouldn't want to have to explain to a doctor, and circular needles just can't be held that way at all. LOL

Gem

I have never worked with a circular needle :-(

hmm - how do you keep track of the pattern? My double point needle patterns always tell me 'and now you should have xxxx stiches on needle one - xxx stitches on needle two...)

Circlular needles scare the heck out of me!

Sandra Rose

I am working my hat (the one with the fun fur) on circular needles. I have worked with DPs before, but never gone from one to the other. What are your recommendations? Should I slide all of the stitches (32 of them) onto the DPs and then continue knitting? Should I knit off of the circulars and onto the DPs? Should I hire someone else to finish the hat? Should I just leave a really big hole at the top? the possibilities are endless!

Again, thank you for your advice!

- Melinda.

Good Morning [ here] and good ??? where you are Melinda . Do i understand rightly ? that you knit your hat from the outside in ?

When moving your stiches from circular to dps , just knit them on to the dp , now if you have a set of 5 knit 1/4 of the stiches onto each of 4 dps and use the 5th to knit , if you have a set of 4 knit a 1/3 of all the stiches onto 3 dps and use the 4th to knit. mirjam

Sandra Rose , make yourself some colored thread loops and slide them onto the knitting needles in the proper place ,,,, this will tell you Where you are in the knitting , i knit everything possible on dps and circulars mirjam

always tell me 'and now you should have xxxx stiches on

Mirjam Bruck-Cohen wrote: i knit everything possible on dps and

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Mirjam - So do I. I find circulars so simple to handle - I use dps to finish off the hats I make. Just sent one to Nora with my 6x6 squares for Marrissa.

Oh! What a good idea! Ha, I never thought of that.

Sandra Rose

always tell me 'and now you should have xxxx stiches on

"Sandra Rose" wrote in news:RF8kf.187830$Io.155911@clgrps13:

be brave! it's quite easy & they're a bit harder to misplace :)

if you're working a pattern on circulars that you'd normally use double points for, just put markers where the different needles would start. i use loops of contrasting color yarn, but those pretty beaded ones would be nice...

i find the new ones are awkward, but if you steam the cables to get the kink tendancy out, they're ok. they do help if you tend toward 'laddering' on double points, because you aren't shifting between needles. in my case 'laddering' was caused by knitting too tightly, which made the looser stitches at the needle crossovers, which is laddering. once i figured that out, i loosened my tension (but not so much the needles fall out!). no more visible ladders :) i have both circulars & double points & use both, sometimes interchangably. nothing to be scared of! lee

Hi Melinda,

That last remark cracked me up, hire some one or leave a big hole in the top. I don't use either circulars or dpn's, when I do knit which isn't often now it's on straight ones.

Hope you are getting a lot of snow where you are, being having it all day, but it's not sticking to the ground.

Hugs,

Nora in upstate NY

First of all, I love your sense of humor. I think it is easiest to just knit off the circ onto the DPs as you work a round putting a third or a fourth of the round on each DP depending on whether you are using 4 or 5 DPs

I'm in Rochester.....some snow today, not too much by my house, but visited a friend who lives much closer to the lake, and also lives next to a farm, so there was lots of blowing snow at her house! I told her that I'll never laugh at her again when she's complaining how much different the weather is where she lives. :)

Hi Melinda,

I'm nearer Albany, in fact Soozegirl and I are probably neighbors and don't know it. LOL We got a dusting today and that's enough for me.

Hugs,

Nora

Melinda,

I'm in Pittsford! Email me directly and maybe we can get together sometime.

Janise

Isn't it funny how just a short distance can make such a difference in the weather? :o)

My Mom was talking to a friend who lived on the opposite side of town on the phone one day and mentioned how beautiful the sunshine was. Her friend asked her if she was trying to be funny... it was raining cats and dogs where she was and she could even hear thunder. LOL

Gem

- Oh, I forgot to mention... our town is VERY small. You can walk from one side to the other in 10 minutes.... okay, a young person with no mobility problems can do it that fast. ;o)

I live in a ,mountain , that sticks it nose into the mediterenean thus we have various `weathers` in our town , more humidity on one side , less winds on the other side ,, it is facinating mirjam

Pretty neat... if you get tired of one type of weather, you can just go to the other side of the mountain for different weather. :o)

Gem

I avoid ladders by shifting the last four stitches just completed on one needle onto the next needle before making the next stitch. It takes a little longer but since I never stitch across the needle ends, there are no ladders.

=Tamar

She could of course cast off there and have a neck warmer...lol

cheers.....Cher

ok, well finish at the end of the round, now take one dpn's and slide on

11sts then 10sts onto the second dpns now the last 11sts onto the third dpns now use the fourth to start knitting with on needle one, put a stitch marker on needle one and this'll help you know which is the beginnig of the round so that you know which round or needle to start each new dec round or row..

cheers....Cher