How to Work Stockinette Stitch in Rounds

Hi everyone. I'm Jen Lucas for The Knitting Circle. In this video, let's take a look at working stockinette stitch in the round. Stockinette stitch creates a smooth fabric, and is the knitted fabric that most people think of. When they think of knitting, they're thinking of stockinette stitch. You might recall from our stockinette stitch in rows video, that when we're working in rows, we're knitting on one side and purling on the other side. Well, when we're working a stockinette stitch in the round, or when we're doing circular knitting, it's even easier. Because we're always looking at the right side of our work, we're just knitting all the stitches every round. So let's go ahead and take a look at stockinette stitch in the round. When working stockinette stitch flat, we're knitting our stitches on the right side and we're purling them on the wrong side. So here is our right side, and you can see we have this nice smooth fabric. And that is what stockinette stitch is. It's this nice, smooth fabric that we create on the right side of our work. So when we're working in the round though, and doing our circular knitting, we always are on the right side of our work. We're always having the right side facing because we're circular knitting. So here you can see I have my swatch that's in the round, and you can see I have still my nice smooth fabric on the right side or public side. And on the inside, I have my purl bumps, which is the wrong side. So we're gonna go ahead and work stockinette stitch in a round. And since the right side or public side is always facing, all we have to do is just knit every stitch. So here I've started some stockinette stitch in the round already, and I've worked a few rounds. So I have my marker here that would mark the beginning of my round. And all I'm gonna do is just knit every stitch. I'm now coming to the last few stitches of my round. Here's my last stitch. Here's my marker. I'm just gonna slip my marker to the right hand needle here. And then, because I'm working in the round, I'm still on the right side of my work. So my next round of stockinette stitch in the round, is just knitting all the stitches again. It's that easy. You're just knitting around and around and around and around. And that's stockinette stitch in the round. And there you go. You can see just how easy it is. You're just knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting, and you're creating some beautiful stockinette stitch in the round. You can use it for hats, socks, sweaters, baby garments. Just about anything that you would knit in the round, stockinette is perfect for that. I'm Jen Lucas for The Knitting Circle. I hope that you enjoyed this video. And be sure to check out all the other great knitting videos that we have here on our website.