What are helical stripes?

What are helical stripes?

Helical Stripes have got a huge variety of uses, the basic concept is that you change the colour every round but to avoid a jog you only knit to 3 stitches before the previous colour change, slip those 3 stitches and then pick up the other colour.

What is Helix knitting?

Helix knitting is a technique that creates single-row stripes when knitting in the round when you have at least two different colors of yarn. In order to determine your pattern, you will divide the cast-on number by the number of colors, and you will knit that number of stitches for each color in each round.

How to knit jogless stripes in the round for beginners?

1 Step 1: Knit one full round in the new color as normal. 2 Step 2: Slip the first stitch of the second round purlwise, place a stitch marker after it (this will be the new start… 3 Step 3: Start your next color right after the marker and slip the first stitch of the second round again and move the… More

What do you call the beginning of a jogless stripe?

If you choose to let the beginning of the round travel one stitch to the left with each color change (this WILL make sense as soon as you try jogless stripes with needles) then every part of every row will be the same height and have the same number of stitches. Such jogless stripes are called ” traveling stripes .”

What are the advantages and disadvantages of jogless stripes?

These stripes are called “stationary jogless stripes.” ADVANTAGE: the color change remains in the same place. DISADVANTAGE: at one part of each round, that round will dip one stitch lower. WHICH TO CHOOSE? With stationary stripes, each stripe dips one stitch lower at the color change.

What’s the best way to make a stripe?

Knit all the rest of the stitches of the round. Knit as many rounds as you desire for the stripe, knitting every stitch. One the round BEFORE your NEXT color change, shift the marker over one stitch to the left. Make more stripes by repeating steps 2 though 5.