Sentences with phrase «circular needles»

I am getting together with my neighbors to sew circular needle holders.
When knitting with circular needles, the key thing to remember is that you are always working from the right side, or what will be the outside of the work when it is worn or used.
A raglan yoke is when you add the body and sleeves all to one large circular needle, and decrease stitches between the four parts, so that the decreases make a stripe that runs from the armpit up to the neck.
But another method of knitting in the round on a small scale that is popular with a lot of knitters is knitting with two circular needles.
Hats are great projects to knit, but some knitters are intimidated by the thought of knitting with a circular needle, which is often required to knit a hat.
The only trick to knitting with two circular needles is that you work the needles on one end of the circular needle with the needle that is on the other end of that same circular needle, as pictured.
To continue on my question about knitting in the round on one circular needle, let's say I have 80 stitches.
My question is when I tried to start it on the 24 ″ circular needles, it stretches the stitches apart to an extreme.
When I thought the raglan was high enough, I slipped half the stitches onto another circular needle and tried the sweater on.
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