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Yarnover at Beginning of Round
General Knitting Questions, January '08 Kit Questions | February 24, 2008
I’m making the medium sock on DPNs. I have 22 stitches on each DPN (2 lace repeats worth) to begin the lace. I see that round 1 of the lace pattern starts with a YO that seems like it would be tricky at the beginning of a round. Will this just work, or do I need to adjust the stitches somehow to avoid the YO as the first “stitch” of a new round? (This will happen 3 times in the round the way I have my stitches divided…)
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6 Responses to “Yarnover at Beginning of Round”
had no problem with the yarn over at the beginning of the round - it works out quite nicely -
I assume I take the yarn under and over the working needle (the one that’s empty at the start of the round), and not the needle that has the working yarn on it from the previous round?
As long as you end up with a YO between one knit stitch and the next (or k2tog/ssk) it should come out right. Just be sure you know where you began each round. You could do the yarn over on the “full” needle do the next stitch on the empty needle then slip the YO to the new needle just to make sure it goes the right direction if putting it at the beginning is confusing (which it can be). Happy Knitting, Alice (one Salish Sea and one Serendipity done)
I think it’s easier to break up the repeats; you can use stitch markers to tell you where you are.
Well after all that, I finished one whole 28-row lace pattern on the first sock and am almost done with the same rows on the second. No problems.
Sometimes I over-analyze things and worry for no reason.
I understand that a YO at the beginning of the round can be intimidating.. I was a tad worried myself, but all turned out well. My socks are finished and they were a blast to knit!
Carolyn
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