Going from circular needles to double pointed

Hello again everyone -

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.

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

"deMoMo" wrote in message
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Hello again everyone -

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.

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

"deMoMo" wrote in message news Hello again everyone -

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

Hello again everyone -

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.

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

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

"deMoMo" wrote in message news Hello again everyone -

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.

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

Sandra Rose

"Mirjam Bruck-Cohen" wrote in message ...
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

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

"deMoMo" wrote in message news Hello again everyone -

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.

"Sandra Rose" wrote in
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I have never worked with a circular needle :-(

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


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...)

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...

Circlular needles scare the heck out of me!

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

--
Jan in MN

"deMoMo" wrote in message
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Hello again everyone -

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.

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.


"norabalcer" wrote in message
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: 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
: