How to knit jogless stripes in the round
As you noticed in Square Sixteen, when knitting in the round, you usually get a jog at the beginning of the round. When knitting stripes in the round, you will get this jog at every colour change. If you carry the yarn from one stripe to the other, you cannot use the yarn end to even out the jog.
My preferred method is twisting the yarns anticlockwise at colour changes. That way, the yarns pull in opposite directions, evening out the jog.
You already know how to
- cast on
- knit
- cast off
- slip the first stitch purlwise
- knit horizontal stripes
- purl
- follow a knitting pattern containing abbreviations
- decrease by knitting two stitches together
- place and slip a marker
- make a left-leaning decrease
- slip a stitch knitwise
- knit in the round
Extra materials
As for Square Sixteen.
Instructions
Using a circular needle and dark colour yarn (DC), cast on 108 sts.
Rnd 1: Join in the round and place a marker to mark the beginning of the round. Purl a round placing markers after the 27th, the 54th and the 81st stitch.
Take care not to twist your stitches.
Rnd 2: [Ssk, k to 2 sts before marker, k2tog, SM] 4 times. (100 sts.)
Rnd 3: Purl.
Rnd 4: As rnd 2. (92 sts.)
Rnd 5: Purl.
Change to the light colour (LC).
Rnd 6: Knit.
Rnd 7: As rnd 2. (84 sts.)
Rnd 8: As rnd 2. (76 sts.)
Twist yarns anticlockwise and continue with DC.
Rnd 9: Knit.
Rnd 10: As rnd 2. (68 sts.)
Rnd 11: As rnd 2. (60 sts.)
Twist yarns anticlockwise and continue with LC.
Rnd 12: Knit.
Rnd 13: As rnd 2. (52 sts.)
Rnd 14: [Ssk, k 9, k2tog] 4 times. (44 sts.)
Twist yarns anticlockwise and continue with DC.
Rnd 15: Knit a round, transferring the stitches to DPNs and removing markers.
Rnd 16: [Ssk, k7, k2tog] 4 times. (36 sts.)
Rnd 17: [Ssk, k5, k2tog] 4 times. (28 sts.)
Twist yarns anticlockwise and continue with LC.
Rnd 18: Knit.
Rnd 19: [Ssk, k3, k2tog] 4 times (20 sts.)
Rnd 20: [Ssk, k1, k2tog] 4 times (12 sts.)
Twist yarns anticlockwise and continue with DC.
Rnd 21: Knit.
Cut both yarns and pull the DC yarn through the remaining stitches (see Square Sixteen). Pull the yarn to close the hole tightly and weave in the ends.
Geeky Notes 🤓
This is what the wrong side looks like:
Some knitters like to slip the first stitch of the first round after the colour change, but this means that this stitch column will have fewer stitches than the rest, and I’m a little OCD 😳 so I cannot live with that.
Which method do you prefer? Let me know in the comments field below 👇
If you successfully completed this square, you have learned how to
- knit jogless stripes in the round
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