Help knitting in the round

Hopefully you guys may be able to help me out a bit. I'm a pretty new knitter....been getting my feet wet knitting a *ton* of dishcloths, and finally decided to try my hand at something a bit more complicated.

I've been knitting children's hats with a roll brim with DPNs. Not too complicated, and they are coming along very well. Weeeellllll, my first one was a little messed up :) But the second one is much better :)

My problem is joining the stitches when you switch needles. (I hope this makes since...I'm sure there is a technical word for it, but I have no clue what it is). The stitches are looser when I switch needles, causing a noticeable line up the hat when I'm done. I've tried tightening the last stitch, then knitting 2, and tightening those before continuing on with the knitting- which I read should fix the problem- but the tension is still not right.

Any suggestions?

This message was edited Aug 26, 2007 6:51 PM