I got my knickers in a twist!

[zats_clear]

I am working on the Butterfly Moebius pattern from The Knitter's Book of Yarn and I am wondering how to correctly twist my stitches around the needle.  It says "but in this case, you want to make sure there is one twist in your row - that is, somewhere in your cast-on row the base of the sts wraps over the needle once."  

uuuuhhhhhhh

yeah 

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Comments

[ysobel]

*snickers at the current music field*

When you're joining stitches for knitting in the round, usually you want to make sure that the stitches aren't twisted, so that the cast-on edge doesn't wrap around the needles. http://www.cometosilver.com/socks/SockClass_Start.htm has pictures, under step three, of what twisted stitches look like, and what untwisted looks like, on dpns.

I usually check by holding the needles (whether circular or dpns) in position as though they were already joined, and make sure the cast-on edge is on the inside of the needles. So to *make* a deliberate twist, you'd want to rotate the stitches somewhere so that the cast-on edge loops around the outside of the needles and back to the inside.

(That twist will remain in the work, but then again, it does have Moebius in the name, so that's not surprising. :) )

[zats_clear]

ok. 360 turn. that sounds like what I did, just did not look like I had done it once I got going on the first row. But hey, first row, so it's not supposed to look like much!

It's a pretty pattern and I am really excited to do it but am now too darned tired! And the pads of my fingers hurt from casting and recasting and peeling off too tight cast-on stitches and ...yeah, this was obviously not my night to knit!

thanks for the assist!

[zats_clear]

by the way,thanks so much for the visual! I have been knitting away on this beautiful shawl with time I do NOT actually have because I am dying to see it done but I am concerned greatly by the fact that the knitted yarn hangs nice and straight down from the needles when I hold it up (in a circle) - I am about 20 rows in thus far.

I did rotate fully...and I am keeping my fingers crossed and toes