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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[zats_clear]

take one end of the circular needle and, by rolling it on the surface of the table or whatever, turn it exactly 360 degrees.

yup, that is exactly what I thought and what I needed to know! I've been lucky...no twisted stitches, possibly because I have worked with circular needles right from the start!

thanks for verifying for me! It just did not look like much when I was knitting! I have since frogged and failed at recasting - not enuf tail (yeah, my husband had commentary on that!)

[yvi]

Oh, believe me, you can twist your stitches with circular needles just fine *weeps*

[zats_clear]

I have a question...do you know if you have twisted your stitches once you have started knitting? should it be obvious to me yet?

you have no idea how many times I have had to restart this shawl! srsly, it looks like such a simple project but fate has conspired against me!

I am about 20 rows in...it hangs down from the circular needles nice and straight. somehow, I see frogs in my future

*cries*

[yvi]

I usually knew by row 3 or so... If it's hanging down nice and straight it probably isn't twisted. I am wondering, however, whether you might still be able to twist it...