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4 Stitches In The Round
Casting On a Small Number of Stitches on Double-Pointed Needles to Work in the Round
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so I'm going to show you today how to
cast on a small number of stitches for
working in the round on double pointed
needles and I love my signature needle
arts double pointed needles they're
smooth and beautiful and sharp and
lovely all around so I can't say enough
good things about them one of the main
questions I get asked about the
signature needle arts double pointed
needles is the length and I always get
the 6 inch double pointed needles that's
my favorite length
for everything toys sleeves socks
anything you would knit in the round
tops of hats anything six-inch that's my
favorite okay so a lot of times in my
toy patterns what I have people do is
cast on nine stitches and join them to
work in the round and in my class as
I've taught I noticed that a lot of
people have trouble just with those
first couple rounds so I just want to
show you how I do it here so I cast on
three I do a little bit of a strange
cast on but you just go ahead and do
your own long tail cast on that's what I
do I taught myself to knit if a little
bit of a strange way of doing things now
when I start my second needle I really
give it a tight pull just so it's right
up next to that first needle and then
I'll go ahead and start my third needle
you can see here I have the two needles
and I'll go ahead and grab my third
needle I always work on three double
pointed needles you know in knit on to
the fourth one so that's my favorite way
of doing that okay so now I've got my
third needle going
and there we go so now I'm ready let me
show you here what I've got did they end
out of the way I have three stitches on
each needle and they're kind of all set
to go right in the round they're not
twisted or anything right in a row and I
just will take my fourth double pointed
needle here and I will go ahead and
start knitting in the round so they're
just joined up they're all set to go I
can show you one more time to see here
they're not joined I have three needles
and they're forming that triangle that
you want to see they're not twisted and
then I will just go ahead and start
knitting that first round I'll move to
the next one
and I just leave that end out I just
find it really easier to just take the
end on a yarn needle to close up that
hole that to me is a lot easier than
doing some kind of fiddly cast on where
you weave that ended and then pull it up
closed I don't mind doing that at all
and I've already completed one round so
there we go that's the inside of my
circle there I've got nine stitches on
three beautiful signature double pointed
needles thanks for watching
