OK, I see about the slip stitch. I closed up some holes by giving a slight tug to the new color yarn (MC or CC). I tend to be a loose knitter but I don’t want holes at the joins.
Are the holes on both sides of the diamond or just at the BOR?
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The holes are to the right of the diamond on RS… I’m not sure if it’s happening on right or wrong side but I see them when working RS. They aren’t holes but spaces created because the st adjacent to the one that was slipped is being stretched open.
The problem when you don’t know what you’re doing wrong is changing things and making them worse… (Like in the beginning when I thought maybe I was supposed to do the chart as the 1st one was but turned out I was reading it correctly.) and in trying to figure it out I am now sometimes turning my work to find a CC loop already in place… I did something to how I placed the finished yarn into the loop (to knit with the loop) that is twisting in a way that when I turn the loop is already in place… obviously not correct, obviously an accident… obviously the more i try to figure it out the more I’m screwing it up.
I’m redoing (again) because I think I might be working a st twice… I’m not sure how that could be but I hope it is… (easy fix)… When I worked the leg I was so confused about the chart (reading left of the CC around and back to it on RS and right of the CC on WS) that I placed a marker on the st. -not next to or below but literally ON the st that was the start of that row (unfortunately the weight of it stretched the st and that area is a bit sloppy)… once I got the hang of it I put the marker beside it. I was knitting the leg with 4 sts. Normally if doing stockinette I use 3 - only one on the front - because I get ladders (they’re hidden in stranded, cabled etc)… but the leg was worked half of each side and I didn’t know which would be front. On the foot I’m using 3 needles so the BOR is in the centre and I haven’t used a marker because I know the BOR is before adding an extra CC…
to make a long story longer… I’m hoping that is why I have spaces … I can’t think of any other reason that I didn’t have any on the leg.
I admire your persistance. I worked this with a square in CC just to help remember the technique. Tightening up the color changes helped but I wasn’t slipping sts or extending the square.
So when you turn from RS to WS… is the strand you’re using to to purl the 1st st coming from the last worked knit st? Or I should say… is the first purled st the same st as the last knitted one? (I’m just trying to see if I’m doing it correctly because no matter what I do the stitch is being stretched … the loop closes any hole on top but the st beside is stretched (ie left leg of the st is being pulled to the left and in fact, when looking at it on RS all the MC sts close to the diamond are literally leaning whereas the sts on the right side of the diamond are straight. It’s actually getting worse the more I do it. (You can see how neat the red diamond looks - it was on the leg) (you can see it being stretched but closed on top)
I turn at the left of color block so the strand I use to purl is coming from the last knit stitch but twisted to capture the MC.
Twisted to capture MC? On WS the diamond is last so last sts worked on RS were MC then turn and first sts on WS are MC so the yarn twisted (looped) is CC… no? and you place the just worked yarn down into the loop right? I’m not doing anything different than the leg so I can’t think of anything.
Yes, if you’re working MC then CC is looped. I make sure the loop isn’t capturing the just worked yarn by putting it down through the loop.
you put the working yarn in the loop BEFORE purling with it? (maybe I’m misunderstanding.)
Forget it… it’s just getting WORSE the more I do it. but i realize at least which is stretching… as I finish purling with MC and do the 2nd last MC st before diamond edge (because last st will be purled in CC) I take the yarn that is attached to that 2nd last st to put it through the CC loop so i can purl the diamond (incl. that last MC and the st AFTER the diamond which is the slipped one from the start of the row) … then i use cc loop to purl and pull it tight when i’m done and THAT’S where the hole is … when i turn it around that stitch leans to the left on RS.nope… i take it back… it’s the MC stitch that is slipped before starting to purl… it’s attached to the MC yarn … pulling the yarn stretches it. AWW forget it… I’ve had it. my perseverance is not admirable it’s bonkers - because I hate to leave something unfinished and the fact that I’m doing all the correct steps and it’s leaving spaces and that I had no issues on the leg makes it WORSE. I appreciate all of your help… I’m just sorry it couldn’t be solved.
Thank you.
one month… i’ve been doing the same sock for a month and i couldve made 2 pairs by now…
i figured out that on ws the yarn coming from the 1st stitch of the right needle passing over the slipped st to purl the st on the left needle is pulling everything with it… so i worked it very loose and it doesn’t lean… problem is that it just makes all the sts extremely loose which is not much better because it looks like lace. i just cant believe a plain stockinette is causing problems and i cant see anything im doing differently than before so at this point i dont think i will be giving the sock – even without the diamond on the foot because i fear i will not be able to do the leg again… because if i dont think im doing anything differently that means the next leg will look like this.
Time to put this one down, perhaps indefinitely. It’s no fun for sure. The solution to this problem may become clearer in future and you’ll breeze through it. Or not.
You should be working on something you enjoy knitting.
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Update:
Well, the designer is very nice but still thinks I don’t understand the technique…I don’t blame her because how can she see what is going on…
I sent step by step photos of my doing the WS to the unbelievably kind person on Ravelry who seems too nice to get sick of me and she said I was doing everything exactly the same as her (I can’t remember if I posted that already)…
One of my local yarn shops got back to me and said after asking around no one on staff has any clue about doing intarsia in the round. No big shock there… funny enough I didn’t find it hard (just the chart!)
After my 10th go around on the same 10 rounds (I lost track) I haven’t knitted it since my last post… It’s not AS bad as it was at the start but still nowhere near as good as the leg…
In less time than it took me to do the same 10 rounds if the sock over and over I made an argyle scarf that’s so far the length of my arm (3 diamonds long and counting) and twice as wide (I didn’t double knit because I don’t want inverted colour on the back and knowing which brown is front and which is back would be impossible, and I tried double stockinette (so squishy) but the WS diamond looked odd so I decided to just knit plain intarsia with two columns of diamonds to fold and seam one side and that way I can also duplicate the lines instead of knitting them. It was supposed to be a sock and matching scarf.
I’m no expert at seaming except the toe of socks (though my swatch of mattress st when I was contemplating a flat sock was pretty easy) but in looking into it I discovered there’s a not as strong but NO bump seam called Bickford… had I known I would’ve just knit the sock flat! haha.
The Bickford seam lies flat but, as you discovered, isn’t a strong seam. For something with negative ease like a sock, I don’t think it will hold up.
I realized that after I looked into it… so I guess I’m back to where I started. I sent the other user all my RS pictures this time and apparently those are correct too. I guess it’s an odd tension issue though I’m not sure why suddenly…
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Maybe use a slightly tighter or looser tension? Good to know you’re on the right track and the other user was able to help. Thank you for the update!
I don’t know… she sent a link for a video about a similar issue - about tightening the first 3 sts on the row below or something. I’ll try that. The designer saw my picture and said it will straighten out in the wash… This is not a ladder issue so that’s not really going to happen… I’ve put it aside for now because if I do end up doing plain stockinette on the foot it won’t take long and I wasn’t kidding about only giving one sock until I know it will fit…We’ll see!
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Sounds like a good plan. I don’t like to push something off in the hopes it’ll all come out in the wash (or block).
tada!
I honestly want to cry at the thought of having to do this all over again to make a second one… I am only giving one to see if it fits.
I ended up just literally pulling SO tight before and after the slipped stitch and it worked… unfortunately I forgot to do the same on the decrease part and it shows but nowhere near as bad or as hole-y as the increases. I have never taken so long to do a sock in my life - especially one that is just stockinette!
Unfortunately there is nothing like duplicate to make every tension inconsistency show… I chose not to knit the lines with the sock because I figured duplicate would be a cinch but it was horrible because I would start and continue around with one strand only to find it didn’t line up and you can’t fake it… at one point I had to unravel (ie scissors) all the duplicate and start over. I tried to line it up as best I could but used multiple strands in case it didn’t line up so I could redo only certain portions and that meant weaving in A LOT more than with the diamonds…
I didn’t want to do a traditional seam because I thought it would be uncomfortable but now I think it will be uncomfortable because of ALL the woven ends!
THANK YOU both for all your help
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