Re: Knitting again

Posted by Jenn Ridley on December 30, 2008, 7:55 pm

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Depends. You can use a circular needle to knit back and forth on a
flat piece, or you can join it into a tube and knit around. I've
found it much easier to knit large pieces (afghans, f'rex) on a
circular needle than on a long pair of straight needles.

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You may also want to try casting on using a larger needle than you'll
be using for the rest of the piece.

jenn

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Posted by bungadora on December 30, 2008, 9:31 pm

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Another thing I used to do is cast over both needles held together,
and then pull the second needle out when ready to knit. Only works
with some casting methods though.
Dora

Posted by ellice on December 31, 2008, 1:56 pm

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I learned a different cast on for doing socks - stays flat, but has more
give than the usual long-tail. I'll have to think of what it's called -
essentialy IIRC some kind of double cast on - I want to say it had some name
like a Viking or Norway cast-on - but don't think that's right. I'll have
to go look it up. It works like a charm, just involved going thru the loop
two different ways.

Ellice

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