Reversing Direction Knitting in the Round 

Thank you so much, Stephanie, I have searched everywhere for advice for this problem!

Probably everyone already knows about this...NO! I have never seen or heard of this particular application for short rows... and it was exactly what I was looking for. It is such a simple solution but I never considered it...Thanks for JUST DOING IT.

Thank youuuuuu!! I’m a knitting beginner and english is my second language. Every other tutorial was just so full of casual knitting lingo that I didn’t understand, but this one made it so easy to grasp!

I've been knitting socks for decades and recently started working argyles, which require turning the work to purl in the round. This technique is so elegant, seamless and easy. TY TY TY!

Designing and making a hat with a purl ridge. This is exactly what my brain wanted to do but didn't know how!! So much easier than knitting backwards. Thank you!!

Thank you so much for this!! 🙏🏻 I had looked everywhere and everything was just “turn it inside out”

Thank you. I was about to give up when I found this video. Fantastic thank you

Absolutely right! I never needed that until now... Thank you!

With a wrap and turn, this is actually a really old technique. I’ve seen it done on most 18th C stockings and baby sweaters I’ve examined in museums. The garter rows at the top of stockings, and bottom of tiny baby sweaters were usually done with wrap and turn to work he purl ridges. 250 years ago! Cool, huh?

Brilliant! Thanks you, Stephanie, for giving a solution to something I though was possible but did not know how to work out. This worked perfectly for my hat, which I am knitting in the round. I modified what you did to get a garter stitch in the round by switching back and forth from right side to wrong side.

Thank you! I’m knitting a sweater where the whole body is purl stitch and I just didn’t want to haha I knew there had to be a way to knit it “inside out” it’s simple enough but as a visual learner, I appreciate the video!

Very helpful, thank you! Want to make a sweater that has a twisted stitch yoke and then an entire body of reverse stockinette. Thought there had to be a way to do it inside out but hadn't figured it out. Now I know how. Thanks so much for sharing this!

This is genius! Thank you 😊

Just what I was looking for. I wanted to hand knit a toe on a cranked sock tube but needed to knit in the opposite direction. Thank you!

I have undone my knitting loads of times cos I just could not get it. I have looked at other videos and they just did not make sense to me. Thank goodness for your video, so many thanks, I was going to give up. Thank you again.

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I was looking for and helps so much!

Thank you!!! working on The Oslo Beanie (Petiteknit) and had no clue how to do this!

Thank you for this!! Saved me!

Thank you so much for this video!

This was super helpful, thank you!

This is exactly what I needed thanks

Omg… I’m never purling again!!😭😭

Thank you. Just what I needed to know.

Thank you for this advice! Am going to try it as swapping stitches doesn't do it for me.

Thanks Stephanie. Just bought your pattern. ❤️

Thank you so much! ♥️ I'm working on a Whitehorse sweater and couldn't figure out how to do this.

Very cool, Stephanie! Perfect for someone like me who hates purling!

Very clever! thanks!

This is brilliant thank youu

Amazing! Thank you!

Thank you! Whether this is an innovative technique or not, I'm grateful that you've taken the time to publish this tutorial. I do have a question, though: when beginning the second round, and the first two loops, on the left-hand needle, are the legs from that stitch that was pulled up over the right-hand needle -- can those two loops be knit together, instead of purling them together? Did you purl them together simply to remain in pattern?

Is the German stich necessary? Can't you just flip the work so the round of stitches and the body of the work is between you and the needles instead of behind the needles? So, your body, then work, then needles, instead of your body then needles, then work behind? Nevermind, I just saw you answered this on another comment.

Ah okay, but I can’t do that every row, right? Going back and forth? I thought I could make some horizontal colorwork like this maybe… :/

If your double stitch is on a knit stitch rather than a purl stitch like in this video, what decrease do you recommend? k2tog tbl? k2tog? ssk? (And thank you so much for this video it's just what I was looking for!)

Thanks so much for this video! I need to reverse my knitting direction on a bottom-up sweater that’s worked in the round, so that the private side of the bottom ribbing will become the public side, and vice versa, before I start the stitch pattern for the body. For some reason that I don’t really understand, when I knit ribbing, it looks better and more even on the wrong side! I figured doing a turn as if for a short row would do the trick, but I was concerned that when I came around again to the beginning of the round, the join would look weird since the fabric on the left side of the join would be 2 rows higher than the fabric on the right side of the join (1 extra row from the short row, and another extra row due to the spiral nature of in-the-round knitting). So you found that to be unnoticeable in your project?

Love the yarn. What is it called? 😍

Exactly what I was looking for BUT what is the function of the GSR (or double) stitch?