How to Work Reverse Stockinette Stitch in Rounds

Hi everyone, I'm Jen Lucas for "The Knitting Circle." In this video, let's take a look at working reverse stockinette stitch in the round. You may recall that stockinette stitch creates a smooth fabric when you're looking at it from the right side, but sometimes you want that textured, or pro-bump side, to show on the right side and that's reverse stockinette stitch. When working reverse stockinette stitch in rows you might recall, you are going to be purling on the right side and knitting on the wrong side. Well, when working reverse stockinette stitch in the round, or using circular knitting, we're just going to be purling every single round because we're always working on the right side. So let's go ahead and take a look at reverse stockinette stitch in the round. When we're working reverse stockinette stitch, we're purling on the right side and knitting on the wrong side when we're working a flat swatch like I have here. So your typical smooth stockinette stitch here actually goes to the wrong side with reverse stockinette stitch. That's why it's reversed. We have the purl bumps showing on the right side, or the public side. So again, that's for our flat swatch. So if we look at our swatch here in the round, because when we're working in the round we're always working on the right side of our work because we're just knitting around and around in a circle. You can see here my smooth stockinette has gone to the inside, I just have my purl bumps showing on the outside. So that means for reverse stockinette stitch in the round, we're just going to purl every stitch in the round. So here I have a little swatch. I've already started and joined in the round and I've worked a few rounds already. So I have my marker here that marks the beginning of my round. And so, because we're doing reverse stockinette stitch, I'm just gonna go ahead and purl every stitch for this round. I have my last couple of stitches of the round that I am purling. Here I have my round marker, so I'm just going to slip it to my right hand needle. And then because we're working in the round and we're doing reverse stockinette stitch, the next round is just more purls. So when you're working just plain reverse stockinette stitch in the round, you're just purling every round. It's super simple. And there you go. You can see just how easy a reversed stockinette stitch is especially in the round, because we're just purling every stitch, every single round. Reverse stockinette stitch is great for many things and I like to use it in the same way that I would use garter stitch. I think that it creates beautiful texture in all sorts of projects. I hope that you enjoyed this video here at "The Knitting Circle" and I'll see you again real soon.