WOW, Just want you to know I NEVER COMMENT, but this vid helped me SO much and was EXACTLY what I was looking for a needed. I love vintage patterns but I will only knit in circular ….. so the conversion was really throwing me, this really was a wonderful informative video and so appreciated! Thank you, Georgia from BC
Thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed. I'm knitting small gauntlets. My repeat is six stitches with a lot of extra stitches on the chart. The gauntlet has increases on the right side rows. Should I keep all the stitches?
Glad you got what you were looking for. As for your question it is hard to know exactly what you need to do. However, if your stitch pattern is a 6 stitch repeat and you are also doing increases for your gauntlet pattern, you will need to knit a few stitches of that 6 stitch repeat to accommodate those increases. The stitch chart may give you a clue as to what those extra stitches are that you would need to do till you have increased 6 more stitches which would be another repeat. Not sure if that is of any help. Good luck with your project!
Absolutely fascinating. I am just a few months into my 'knitting in the round' journey and I'm loving it, but most of my patterns are for knitting separate pieces in the flat. I understood what you explained here, so very well, but I'm left wondering about increases, decreases, M1R and M1L and I guess, shaping in general. Or is that far too complicated and I'm best searching for specific 'in the round' patterns, and just perhaps converting the pattern repeat parts? Thank you so much for this; I do hope I made sense 💐🙏💖
That is an excellent question about increases and decreases. Fortunately increases and decreases are usually performed on the right side of the fabric for general shaping of a piece, so those rows you do not have to alter by doing the opposite stitch. But sometimes a more complicated lace pattern may have decreases and/or increases on the wrong side. If you encounter that and you are converting to in the round, you would perform the opposite stitch. So the opposite of a P2tog is a K2tog (and vice versa) and the opposite of a SSP (slip slip purl) is a SSK (slip slip knit). Same with increases. The opposite of M1R would be a M1L. But that is very rare and you are right those patterns may be a bit complicated to convert. I hope that makes sense. Have fun with your knitting. Thanks for watching and I appreciate your comment.
For that staggered pattern you simply start that round with the last two stitches of the pattern repeat instead of the first two. It's similar to shifting the beginning of a round really 🤷🏽♀️ Hope that helps.
