How to Work Garter Stitch in Rounds
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Garter stitch is a basic, beautiful fabric that is created by working all the stitches as knit stitches, when working back and forth in rows. What about knitting garter stitch in the round? In this video, knitting expert Jen Lucas shows you just how easy it is to work garter stitch when circular knitting.
KNIT ONE ROUND, PURL ONE ROUND
When knitting in the round, the Right Side of the work is always facing you. Therefore, in order to achieve garter stitch, one round will be worked with knit stitches, and the next round worked with purl stitches.
Jen demonstrates knitting garter stitch in the round by starting on a knit round. Since she purled the previous round, she slips the stitch marker to mark the start of the round, moves the yarn between the needles from the front to the back, and then knits all the stitches. When she comes to the round marker after knitting all the stitches, the marker is once again slipped. The yarn is brought between the needles from the back to the front. The next round is all purl stitches. By alternating rounds of knitting and purling, garter stitch in the round is created.
Hi, I'm Jen Lucas for The Knitting Circle. In this video, let's take a look at working garter stitch in the round. When working garter stitch in rows, it's super easy, because you're just working knit stitches on both the right side and the wrong side of the work. But when you're working in the round, you're going to have to alternate rounds of knit stitches and purl stitches. So let's go ahead and take a look at ending garter stitch in the round. When working garter stitch flat, we're knitting on both the right sides and wrong sides. So here I have my flat swatch. You can see I've been knitting on both sides. So to create that same stitch when working in the round, because in the round, we're always on the right side of our work, we need to knit all the stitches for one round, and then the next round, we're going to purl all the stitches. So I'm going to go ahead and show you how to do that. So I've already started a little bit of knitting here and I cast on, joined in the round, and then I worked just a couple rounds in garter stitch. So here you can see that I have my purl bumps on this last round that I was working. I've come to the end of my round. I have my marker here. So I was purling. I'm going to bring the yarn between the needles to the back, because now, this next round, I'm just going to knit all the stitches. So I'm just going to go ahead and knit all the way around until I get back to this marker. I'm coming to the last few stitches here. I'm gonna keep knitting this entire round. I'm knitting this last stitch. Now I'm at my stitch marker. This was marking my round. So I'm just going to slip it to my right needle. I had been knitting. You can see my knit stitches here. I'm gonna bring the yarn to the front and start purling. And so now I'm gonna go ahead and purl every stitch on this round. And when I get back around to here, I've purled all the stitches. I'm going to slip the marker, move the yarn to the back, and knit all the stitches again. So again, with garter stitch in the round, you're knitting around and then purling around. And that's garter stitch in the round. As you can see, it's super simple. We're just doing one round of knit stitches and then one round of purl stitches. And that's it. We're doing garter stitch in the round. I'm Jen Lucas for The Knitting Circle. I hope that you enjoyed this video and I'll see you back here again real soon.
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