Hi there
I'm a beginner and I hope this isn't a dumb question but how do you STOP doing short rows when knitting in the round?
I bought the Little Turtle Knits longies pattern last week and I can't figure out how to stop doing the short rows on the bum and go back to the st rows. The pattern says "continue to work in this manner until you hit the side seam markers. Then the short rows are complete and you will return to working stockinette stitch in the round."
Here's my problem: I knit over to the side marker, wrap, turn and purl back to the other side seam, wrap, turn and knit back to the last wrap knit stitch (at the side marker).
Now what?? I knit the wrap with the stitch and keep knitting round? What happens when I get all the way round to the other wrapped (purl) stitch? There seems to be no way to knit it because if I just knit the stitch, I have a gap. But it's hard to knit the wrap with the stitch since it was originally done as a purl wrap so the wrap is heading in the other direction (back on the left needle) - it's very tight and though I managed to do it, it looked horrible and was clearly not right. I have redone this section twice and tried multiple different ways to stop the short rows and nothing works. I can't find any info online either.
Can any of you help????
Alison
I'm a beginner and I hope this isn't a dumb question but how do you STOP doing short rows when knitting in the round?
I bought the Little Turtle Knits longies pattern last week and I can't figure out how to stop doing the short rows on the bum and go back to the st rows. The pattern says "continue to work in this manner until you hit the side seam markers. Then the short rows are complete and you will return to working stockinette stitch in the round."
Here's my problem: I knit over to the side marker, wrap, turn and purl back to the other side seam, wrap, turn and knit back to the last wrap knit stitch (at the side marker).
Now what?? I knit the wrap with the stitch and keep knitting round? What happens when I get all the way round to the other wrapped (purl) stitch? There seems to be no way to knit it because if I just knit the stitch, I have a gap. But it's hard to knit the wrap with the stitch since it was originally done as a purl wrap so the wrap is heading in the other direction (back on the left needle) - it's very tight and though I managed to do it, it looked horrible and was clearly not right. I have redone this section twice and tried multiple different ways to stop the short rows and nothing works. I can't find any info online either.
Can any of you help????
Alison
Oh well, I'm a perfectionist.
