Garter in the round
So everyone knows that garter stitch is really easy knitted flat, you just knit every stitch. While stockinette is a bit of a pain, you have to purl every other row. In the round, however, this is reversed and stockinette becomes knit every stitch, and garter becomes purl every other round. Right?
Yes, but there is a neat trick you can use to do garter in the round with no purls. Use two balls of yarn and knit one round in one direction, then turn the work around and, pick the other yarn and use it to knit the next round in the opposite direction. Continue alternating rounds using one yarn in one direction and the other in the other. Always knitting, no purling. You get a very good looking garter with a discrete (no holes, but still visible) transition where you've changed yarn and direction. There may be some easy way to fix this 'transition' (it is a kind of jog), but I neither know it, nor find it necessary.
Yes, but there is a neat trick you can use to do garter in the round with no purls. Use two balls of yarn and knit one round in one direction, then turn the work around and, pick the other yarn and use it to knit the next round in the opposite direction. Continue alternating rounds using one yarn in one direction and the other in the other. Always knitting, no purling. You get a very good looking garter with a discrete (no holes, but still visible) transition where you've changed yarn and direction. There may be some easy way to fix this 'transition' (it is a kind of jog), but I neither know it, nor find it necessary.
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