How To Knit With Circular Needles

Make a slipknot and slip it onto your right hand needle.

How to knit with circular needles. Do not join in the round just cast on and knit. You can just keep knitting around and around and around rather than going back and forth like youre used to doing with just your straight knitting needles. Hold 1 needle in each hand with the central cable hanging down in front of you. As you cast your stitches they will slide towards and onto the cable.

Starting a flat or round circular needle project 1. Knitting flat on circular needles is the same as working on straight needles. Loop your working yarn around your middle and index finger 2. Once youve cleared one side of the needle you turn your work and start again with the empty needle in your right hand.

Cast on as you normally would. How to knit back and forth on circular needles flat knitting on circular needles 1 cast on all stitches the pattern calls for. Knitting on circular needles is essentially just your two knitting needles and instead of them being separate. An easy up close demonstration of how to knit on circular needles by judy graham knitter to the stars whos knits have appeared in movies tv and concerts for over 30 years and who has been.

Do not join in the round just cast on and knit. Knit from the left needle to the right as usual and when you get to the end of the row switch hands just like you would in knitting with straight needles. Knit in the round with circular needles in 5 easy steps.