knitting novice help!!!!!!!

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Any knitting advice greatly received here.

I am a fairly new knitter and started this last night. Please look at Pattern here

Basically it took me ages to get as far as the frills and to the bit where I split the stitches onto the three needles so I really don't want to give up.

My problem at the moment is that my yarn is now at the wrong end of my needle. I am guessing that I was right to do this on normal needles and not double pointed ones as the instructions say to sew the sides up at the end. I have never used double pointed needles so actually have no clue how to do this anyway, plus the ones I have are the wrong size...

Oh, in order to get the stitches on to the extra needle I did just slip them, I didn't knit them. Is that right????

Have I done it right? How do I get my yarn at the right end?

Any thoughts greatfully received....
THANK YOU!!!!

I think you were right to slip them - it doesn't say to knit them, and your first row after the split is a purl. To get your yarn up the right end slip the stitches onto another needle and yarn will be at the beginning of the row.

When you knit the eye, it is in the round, - but it's not too difficult, you'll need four double ended needle and divide your stitches between 3 of them, then knit just continuing across the end of the row onto the new row (hope that makes sense - it's hard to explain but if you google knitting in the round you can look at a diagram and it will be easier) Its a bit fiddly when there aren't many stitches on the needle, but it looks like you increase as you go round so it will get easier.

HTH

Oh and when you do your second lot of 25 stitches for the upper bit of the body, you will just need to rejoin your yarn at the edge.

Thank you very much. I have done that and so far it seems to be working.
I shall look forward to the challenge of the eye. Watch this space though...

I think, from memory, you can get little sort of rubber 'plugs' that you can put on one end of a sock needle (one with 2 pointed ends) to turn it into an ordinary one. They had 2 holes in, so some people use them to put them on the end of the needles when they leave the knitting for a while.

When you start knitting in the round, if, say there are 120 stitches, knit the first 40 onto the first sock needle, the second 40sts onto the second needle and the third onto the third needle. After the first row, you will have 3 needles each containing 40 sts. With the fourth needle you knit the sts from the first needle - just like and ordinary row. You then continue with the now empty needle in your right hand, knitting the stitches on the second needle, and so on. Sometimes people knit in a 6-inch length of contrasting yarn with the very first stitch to show where the beginning of the row is - in a way the knitting in the round is like one continuous very long row, but it wouldn't matter in most cases if you knitted an odd few extra stitches at the end.

When you cast off at the end, you just pull the end of the yarn through the last stitch to form a knot and then thread a short length of the free end through the finished edge to join up the little gap.

Good luck