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Notę: Jogless stripes in the round are useful for many knitting applications, but they are particularly helpful when knitting striped socks, cuffs, and other pieces that may be ribbed. In striped ribbing of any type, stripes are broken by the previous color showing in the purl columns. To solve this, use stockinette stitch to work all color-change rounds. Only work the knit/purl ribbing pattern on non-color-change rounds. □

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Which Jogless Stripe?

	Barber Pole or Heiix	Traveling Slip Stitch	Stationary Slip Stitch
Advantages	Truły jogless	Every round same height	End of round remains consistent
Disadvantages	Noticeable spiral; many yarn ends	End of round moves	Knitting may puli along shorter color-change column
How many colors?	Limited by spiral angle and yarn tangling	Infinite	Infinite
Best for	One-row stripes	Two-row or thicker stripes; thinner yarns and lighter fabrics	Two-row or thicker stripes; heavier yarns and fabrics

Slip-Stitch Jogless Stripes: Variations

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Figurę 9

Figurę 10

There are two types of slip-stitch jogless stripes: traveling and stationary. The slip-stitch technique is the same for both varia-tions; the only difference is the point at which the colors are changed.

TRAVELING SLIP-STITCH JOGLESS STRIPES If the beginning of the round travels one stitch to the left with each color change (Figurę 9; orange arrows) then every part of every row will be the same height and have the same number of stitches.

•    Insert a split-ring stitch marker at the planned color change;

•    On the color-change round, slip the marker and begin knitting with the new color;

•    On the following round, knit to the marker and slip it. Then, slip the first stitch of the new color from the left needle to the right needle. Knit to the end of the round;

•    Knit as usual to within one round of the next color change;

•On the round before the next color change, shift the marker one stitch to the left;

•    Continue making stripes, moving the end of round one stitch to the left at each color change.

When working traveling slip-stitch jog less stripes, a faint spiral pattern will de-velop along the diagonal of the color change.

This spiral pattern is morę obvious in heavy fabrics and less obvious in thinner fabrics.

STATIONARY SLIP-STITCH JOGLESS STRIPES If the beginning of the round stays in the same place for every color change, the color-change column (orange arrow) will be one stitch shorter for every stripe in the piece (Figurę 10).

Work as for traveling slip-stitch jogless stripes but do not shift the marker to the left at each color change. The end of round remains in the same place throughout the piece.

When working many thin stripes with the stationary slip-stitch jogless method, there will be substantially fewer stitches along the color-change column. The fabric may puli along the column of stitches. However, with thick yarns and/or thicker stripes, the knitting will stretch enough to minimize pulling.

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