Posted by bonnell on 2004-05-20 16:22:34
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ok i'm having 1 bit of trouble visualizing, when you pull off the waste yarn, won't the beginning bit of the real knitting be hanging loose while there's your real yarn still on one needle? You double it over, then you have these loose yarns plus the yarn on the needle to knit two together? also i thought you couldn't unravel from the bottom up.
thanks
jt
you can't unravel from the bottom up--you kind of have to pick out the waste yarn to free up the loopys on the bottom. But the fact that it won't unravel helps, because the free loops won't really go anywhere until you're ready for them. If it helps, put teh free loops on a spare needle.
Then you are folding the bottom bit up--the purl line is the fold line-- and knitting 1 stitch from the spare needle and 1 stitch from the reg needle together, all the way around. It's kind of like a 3 needle bind off in that respect, without the binding off bit.
