Thank you for this. I really appreciate the diagrams you drew, too, as they helped me to understand the “how” of it all in a more 3D way. Also appreciated the tip re hand-dyed yarns.
I have just been thinking about doing this when your video popped up. When I knit in the round I usually use two pairs of circular needles so I can see how easy it would be to do the helix stripes. It will be great for socks, especially as I have lots of leftover bits of sock yarn. Thank you for your video.
Thank you Jared (and your team) for this clear demonstration and instruction. I particularly appreciated your little graphic of the simultaneous spirals...the picture provided a leap in my understanding of this method.
Thank you for such clear beautiful knitting tutorials! Jared Flood - you are knitting guru! Just wondering - maybe you could advise on specific way/technique on how to incorporate neatly short rows in helical striping in the round?
Thank you for sharing this Jared! I used this method on the Ginn I knit for Tolt but do have a question for you. I seemed to have a probably finishing my helical knitting. Could you show how you stop using one yarn? Because basically you have 2 spirals you're knitting, right? But when you want to stop using a yarn, you have to jump up to the next row to keep working...at least that's what I found. Hmmm...would love a tutorial that shows how to stop using this method while knitting. :).
Hi Caro! Great question! You can shift the BOR so it's between decreases as you start the shaping - as with many things in knitting, it might take a little trial and error to decide where you want everything to line up. Let us know how you get on!
Would love to see how you switch colors through raglan increases. Love this technique but got to where a color change was happening at the Increase point and froze
Hello! In this case, you can shift your color change to a couple of stitches before or after your raglan increases - with a 1x1 stripe it will hide pretty well!
Hello, how do you bring all the yarns back to end on the same round? I've been knitting the body of a sweater with 3 skeins of the "same" color. Now I need to split for the hem and want to use one skein for the short rows.
Hello! You can simply drop the stripes you don't want to continue with and work your end-of-round stitches in your main color: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c7QRehYUd-k.html
Hi Olivia! You can use the needle length of your preference - we used magic loop here so that we could make a smaller circular swatch. Happy helical knitting!
I am helix knitting a sleeve with 4 colors with each row a different color repeated. I have to increase up the arm. I started with 10 stitches per color but as I increase the number of stitches will vary per color. Does that matter?
Hi Susan! Great question! It shouldn't make a difference, as where you start your next color is totally arbitrary, and your round marker is really just keeping track of how far in to make your increases. Just keep chasing your stripes around! (Let us know how your project turns out!)
Great question! For a smooth bind off, we recommend ending your stripes and transitioning back to a single color before binding off -simply stop working the “stripe” color and overtake the join point with your main color, then continue knitting as usual.
Hi Joy! You absolutely can! Basically you'll divide your round into sections, start each color in a separate section, then keep spiraling the colors around in sections as you go. Purl Soho (one of our wonderful stockists) has an excellent Helix Knitting Tutorial video that demonstrates this with four colors.
I’m working on a sweater and the sleeve has garter stitch, the rest is stockinette. I’m having issues when I’m doing helical with purling. Any tips? Also, what about helical when you have to increase? Sometimes the increase has to happen within the 3 stitches that need to be slipped. Thanks
Hello, thank you for your question! I asked my team if they had any advice, and this is what my teammate Allison had to say: "I usually just fudge. I'll slip two or four instead of three to avoid an increase or decrease. The garter on the sleeve may be hard. It's okay to have longer stretches between switching, so maybe she could just set herself up to skip over the garter and never have that be the point of alternating?" All of this to say - it's really up to you and what you're comfortable with! -Mary
If you are knitting helical striping and want to continue to knit with only one color. How do you knit the last round? Second question: is it the best way to start the helical knitting at the beginning of a round & do you have to stop knitting the stripes at the end of a original round. Let's say you are knitting socks cuff down using helical knitting.
Great question! To end, you just need to stop working the “stripe” color and overtake the join point with your main yarn, then continue knitting normally with one color. As far as a starting point, it’s arbitrary. Starting at BOR is easy and clear, but not totally necessary, since once you get going the BOR is completely arbitrary for your color changes. It only remains there to give you a sense for when to work shaping, etc.
okay but how do I start it and how do I avoid there being a jog for each color at the top and bottom where the spiral stops and starts? It's easiest to see at about 11:06. I'd rather just never do one-row stripes if there's not a way to hide that better. Maybe that sounds unreasonable to some folks but I'm learning to knit after 20 years of crochet, and crochet easily can do either spiral or alternating stripes without a big gross looking jog like that so I feel like there ought to be a way. This isn't jogless and I'm getting really mad about the last eight videos in a row claiming to show how to do jogless one row stripes being a lie
Hi Lesika! You may find TechKnitter's informative 3-part series on jogless stripes useful: Part 1: techknitting.blogspot.com/2011/02/article-and-video-on-jogless-stripes.html Part 2: techknitting.blogspot.com/2011/03/helix-barberpole-stripes-part-2-of.html Part 3: techknitting.blogspot.com/2011/03/jogless-stripes-pretty-picture-version.html Happy knitting!
