Dpn Knitting
When Knitting: How do you knit off of a circular needle and onto a double pointed needle?
I needle help with this one patten that I am oing. I am new to knitting so I don’t quite know what it means. It says: With a dpn, k 16 stitches off the circular needle onto the dpn. How do I do this if the stitches are already on two needles??? How do I knit onto a totally different needle??? I just don’t get it.
You are switching to DPNs because you are about to do some decreases and the circumference of your piece will become too small to remain on the circular needle. DPNs automatically adjust to fit the circumference of your work as that circumference changes.
DPNs come in sets of 4 or 5 needles typically. Most American sets come in four, most European in 5. In a four needle set, you have three needles holding stitches, forming a kind of triangle, and the fourth needle is used for knitting off. In a five needle set, you have four needles holding stitches, forming a kind of square or rectangle, and the fifth is used for knitting off.
Pick up your circular needle as if to knit another round. Now let go of the needle in your right hand. Pick up one of your DPNs in that right hand. Now use that DPN in your right hand to knit sixteen stitches from the needle in your left hand. In order to avoid a stretched out column of stitches at that point (called a “ladder”), knit the first two stitches with the DPN a little more snugly than usual. That won’t be all of the stitches, just 1/3 or 1/4 of them. When you finish those 16 stitches, let go of the DPN and pick up a new one. Knit 16 stitches onto the new DPN, remembering as before to knit the first two stitches snugly. Continue on until all the stitches are now on double point needles. Take a safety pin and mark the gap between the beginning of the first needle and the end of the last needle. This will mark the beginning of your round so you won’t lose your place as you follow the remaining instructions. Each time you pass that safety pin, you are starting a new round.
This video won’t show you how to switch, but will show you how to use the DPNs and that may help you understand the objective and will at least show you what it looks like when you’ve done it right. Scroll down to the section on Double Pointed Needles (DPN) and click the button to watch the video.
http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/advanced-techniques
You might also want to investigate the technique called “magic loop” which allows you to knit any diameter tube without having to switch from circulars when it is large to DPNs when it is small. You can knit everything from sweaters to socks all with one technique. It looks goofy at first, but once you get used to it it is actually the easiest method. You don’t randomly lose needles like you sometimes do with DPNs, and it’s actually easy to knit two matching items (like socks or sleeves) at the same time so they match exactly.
DPN Knitting (Double Pointed Needles)
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