AboutFrances Rhea Expertise I can answer questions on knitting providing help with yarn selection, patterns, adjustments, needle selection, anything to do with knitting. I can guide you to great tutorials, and places to purchase supplies or patterns.
Experience I have been knitting since I was around six.
Education/Credentials I have been knitting since I was around six.
Question I have a hat pattern that has cables in it (from a chart) and you knit in the
round. I think that when I knit in the round, I read the chart from right to left
always? My work is inside out and when I turn the work right side out, my
cables are on the wrong side. The cables are are on the right or outside of
the hat to do not look right . The cables that are on the wrong side or the
inside look right. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? I also read that
when you work on cables in the round you never purl. Is that correct? This
pattern calls for purling. Thanks for your help.
Answer Altering a regular pattern to make with circular needles can be difficult.
Do you turn your work to the other side like in regular knitting after each round? Although you can use circular needles like regular needles, normally you would only work with the right side of the project joining each round of knitting as you work each row.
When working on the right side only you might still purl, but it is only if the pattern has purl stitches that show on the right side. Any purl stitches that would normally be worked from the wrong side are knit stitches on the right side.
Reading the pattern from right to left is correct as long as you do not turn your rows.
