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hi guys!- well i ve started the odd kntting project for xmas gifts (early i know). I have decided to do my boys matching beanie hats. Found loads of patterns on ravelry BUT i ve never knitted one on circular needles and really dont want to have to keep frogging them so can anyone tell me is the pattern just a straight swap from circular to straight or do i need a specific one??? (sorry if this is a really silly question.....

You need to remember that you only do knit on every row as the right side is always facing you...no need to purl unless the pattern tells you to.
And remember to pull a little on the join so you dont get a hole. If you cast on one extra st and put in a marker, when you have knitted one round and you are back at the marker knit 2tog and that makes the join neater, then just keep going round and round.!!!!!

gill1946 - 12 July 2008 08:29 PM

You need to remember that you only do knit on every row as the right side is always facing you...no need to purl unless the pattern tells you to.
And remember to pull a little on the join so you dont get a hole. If you cast on one extra st and put in a marker, when you have knitted one round and you are back at the marker knit 2tog and that makes the join neater, then just keep going round and round.!!!!!

SILLY ME got it wrong way round.....

If you are going from cicular to straight then you need to remember to purl the wrong side rows otherwise it is the same. The st. No. is the same and the pattern is the same, you just turn the needle round at the end of the row and go back the other way.
SORRY IF I CONFUSED YOU

Gill- i love you!!!!! you are always there( confusing or not!!!!). Thanks so much!

2littletoys - 12 July 2008 08:41 PM

Gill- i love you!!!!! you are always there( confusing or not!!!!). Thanks so much!

You are welcome....I confuse myself sometimes.

They are called “senior moments”..I get them a lot    

i dont think you need to be senior to have them- i just call them blonde moments!

2littletoys - 12 July 2008 08:56 PM

i dont think you need to be senior to have them- i just call them blonde moments!

I go with my daughter on this one, “I’m not blonde, I’m just naturally dumb”

Tiddlerpuss - 13 July 2008 03:04 PM

I go with my daughter on this one, “I’m not blonde, I’m just naturally dumb”

NO NO!!!! you are NOT dumb......just challenged.  with occaisional senior moments.
Like me being unable to spell!!!!!!

Trouble is I’ve been having senior moments since I ws a teenager  

Tiddlerpuss - 13 July 2008 05:05 PM

Trouble is I’ve been having senior moments since I ws a teenager  

I think the whole of the members of this forum are in the same boat..(well..most of them) there are a few exceptions      

gill1946 - 13 July 2008 05:08 PM

Tiddlerpuss - 13 July 2008 05:05 PM

Trouble is I’ve been having senior moments since I ws a teenager  

I think the whole of the members of this forum are in the same boat..(well..most of them) there are a few exceptions      

I don’t have senior moments, I live a senior life!!

Hubby reckons its cos i don’t concentrate enough on one thing at a time.  Now what was I doing ??

You are supposed to be going on your jollies.....

Oh yeah!!  Can’t go just yet cos we got a guy looking at our underfloor heating in our kitchen to see why it’s not working!!

Leighb - 17 July 2008 02:10 PM

Oh yeah!!  Can’t go just yet cos we got a guy looking at our underfloor heating in our kitchen to see why it’s not working!!

Is it switched on????
Not meant to be a sarky comment, but after good weather did you forget? You know.........blonde/ senior moments???

No!  Unfortunately (don’t tell anyone!) it’s not been working for a while but we only just got round to calling them in…

Ooohhhh naughty aint I?!