Today at work I was knitting a striped hat (again from the new Noro Magazine), and I was going to have today's picture be the finished project. Then, I thought, why not turn this into a learning opportunity? Like the clips at the end of old G.I. Joe cartoons that tell you not to talk to strangers or light your kitchen on fire. So today's picture shenanigan is going to be a photo tutorial of how to do a jogless stripe.
Any knitter who has done a striped project in the round has experienced "jogs" that occur in the stripes when the color is changed. While this isn't a technical problem, it isn't the prettiest thing on earth. Lucky for we lazies, this is a very easy problem to fix. I know that some of you more experienced knitters are thinking "Ugh, really? Soooo easy. Next!" Pipe down and look at the pretty stripes.
Alright, so, here I am, knitting happily along.
I am at the point where I need to join the second color. I am not going to cover how to do this right now, because there are a few different ways. (For this hat I am carrying the unused yarn up the inside of the hat so I don't have a bajillion ends to weave in later.)
Work one round with the new color. Slip your marker. Then, slip the first stitch of the next row as if to purl.
Continue knitting the rest of the row.
When you start the third row, knit the first stitch as normal. Enjoy your nice, even stripes!
This technique is still something that I forget how to do from time to time, so I hope that you found this to be a useful reference.
Do a little speed knitting (seriously, I'm training like an Olympian to beat Miriam Tegels, but that lady is crazy! 118 stitches in a minute?!? The best I did today was 80. Now that I think about it, this is probably contributing to the fact that I feel like I have arthritic hands lately...) Now go take your delightfully stripey hat outside and act nonchalant while you are actually freezing and yelling at your boyfriend because he keeps taking pictures that are more focused on the shitty cars parked across the street than the hat on your head.
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