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Hi! I was listening to the question about knitting your tube so the wrong side faces out to allow your floats to be a bit looser…. You commented that then you would have to purl in FI. I don’t think that’s what she is saying. I do this with small circumference FI but I knit on the RS while the WS is facing out. Essentially, I’m knitting from the inside of the tube! Does that make sense? It works well although it’s confusing to describe ? Love your show!
That’s what I do, also! It works well and no purling and no tight floats.
THIS.
Instead of knitting on the front of the tube with the rest of the knitting hanging down behind your needles, you’re knitting on the back of the tube with the knitting hanging in front. The floats are taking a path that is just a smidge longer than the inside of the tube, so they naturally are just a bit longer, and if you do still pull them too tightly, you will see it immediately. No, you do not need to purl, and yes, you can still see the first few rounds of the right side of the work (or quite a bit of it, depending on the size of the tube you are knitting). If you feel the need to see the entire right side of the work just to check how it’s going, simply flip it right-side-out for a minute, and then flip it back inside-out to continue knitting.
Hi, it’s Rebecca from Portland with the question from this show about changing a cardi pattern into a vest.
I solved it by casting off the sleeve stitches like you do for topdown raglan sleeves. Then knit the back and the 2 fronts separately until the armhole was almost big enough then did 1 stitch increases on each side of the armholes to taper toward the middle of under arm. Then caston 8 new stitches on each armhole to bridge the fronts to the back to rejoin the 3 pieces back together.
After that I just continued to knit the whole vest until the right length and voila — cardi into vest with fancy shoulder pattern! It sounds more complicated than it was, I’m not that advanced a knitter, just stubborn.. Cheers, and thanks VeryPink????