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So after you've joined to knit in the round and you're going around and around and around,
you are knitting in the round; and there are a few things to remember about this. Right
now, I'm working a little bit of ribbing here on my round knitting. That's knit one, purl
one, which yields the same surface on the front as on the back. There's the inside,
there's the outside.
But let's say I want something different, something other than a rib. If you remember,
when you're knitting flat in order to get stockinette you need to knit on the front
and purl on the back, but not so with knitting in the round. If I just knit all the way around
every single stitch, every single round I would be getting stockinette.
I never have to work the back. So I'm just going to knit a few stitches here and show
you that on the front I've started building up just knit stitches. On the inside of my
hat or cowl or whatever this is that I am knitting on the round, you see all the purl
stitches so I'm automatically getting stockinette as I go.
If I wanted garter stitch in the round, I would have to knit one round, and then move
the yarn to the front, and purl one round. So there are benefits and differences to knitting
in the round. Here's a little hat that I've made and it shows you garter stitch on the
bottom.
So that's knitting around and purling around and knitting around and purling around, and
then I switched to just knitting for many, many, many rounds, which got me stockinette
and then I did some decreases. So knitting in the round is a great way to get quick way
to get stockinette and to make circular items that don't need to be sewn up.