This is a short video showing you one way of how to avoid stretched stitches when joining your knitting on the round on double pointed needles. I'm starting to work on mittens that need 48 stitches, so that's 12 stitches on each of the four needles. Here I'm starting again from the beginning. What you simply do is you cast on one extra stitch, so instead of 48 stitches I have cast on 49. There are 13 stitches on the last needle on my right hand there. Then you knit the first one and the last one together. After knitting it I pass the other stitch over and put it back on the left hand needle. So now they all have 12 stitches again and then I just continue knitting round normally. So now I have knitted a few rows and the start is tidy and it was easy to make.