[HPFGU-OTChatter] HP scarves

[Rose Woofenden]

The needle size should depend on the size of yarn you have. If you've 
got a few different sizes, knit a swatch on a few different sizes, 
and see which you like better. Different needle sizes will give a 
different effect. If you have to go out and buy needles, then ask the 
people at your yarn/craft store, and they should be able to look at 
your yarn and tell you what size to use.

If you are doing a tube, use circular needles, it makes everything a 
whole lot easier. You will need to keep track of the spot where you 
are going to switch colors though, so that you do it on the same 
stitches. I suggest taking a small rubber "O ring" (you can get them 
at a hardware store for $.3o ish) and leaving it on your needles 
between the two stitches.

As far as changing colors, all you've gotta do is stop knitting with 
one color, and pick up yarn of the other color. Break the first color 
off, leaving 3-4 inches to tie it off. (Tie off by running the yarn 
through the back of some stitches.) Then knit with the other color 
until you've done the amount you want, and  switch back to the other 
one.

Hope this helps, it's hard to describe over e-mail...


>I am trying my hand at knitting, and I have a question.  I am
>knitting a scarf with circular needles so it will make a tube, but I
>am confused about thesize of needle I should use and how to switch
>colors.  I started one with straight needles, but Idon't think I
>switched colors correctly.  Are their any avid knitters out there who
>could help me?