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Knitspiration: Helix knitting will revolutionize your stripes
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Knitspiration
𧬠What the Heck is Helix Knitting?
Do you remember when you were a kid and you would spin around and around and around, then suddenly stop.
The abrupt change of state makes your brain go a little crazy.
It wants to keep the status quo, so your head spins, even though your body is standing still.
And if you try to walk in a straight line, well often you can't.
At least not without a hack to keep yourself on target...
Actually this is how professional dancers are able to pirouette without getting dizzy.
They stare at a fixed point on the wall while they spin.
So...
What does any of this have to do with knitting?
Stripes knit in the round are actually one continuous line (Illustration via Mimi Codd)
The problem with traditional stripes in the round
When you knit in the round, you aren't knitting rows like you would when knitting flat.
Instead you are actually making one continuous row that spirals on top of itself.
Most of the time this doesn't matter because you are knitting with only one color.
But if you want to knit stripes in the round one thing becomes apparent very quickly.
The jog. π±
Every time you switch from one color to the other, the color "jumps" or jogs where the color changes.
This is because the round does not end NEXT to the last stitch, but rather ON TOP of it.
Now there are a few tricks to get around this phenomenon, but one of the best I've come across is helical stripes.
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