I am knitting an easy baby blanket, well so the pattern says! 
6th row says thisā¦
K1. Yo. (P1. K1) twice. P1. Yo. K1.
I know how to yarn over a knit stitch just confused on how to yarn over what they want in the parenthisies! Grr!
I have 7 stitches at this point and should have 9 after this step!
New to knitting, please help!
Thanks!
Hi and welcome to KH. You have to do whatās inside the ( ) twice. So:
K1, yo, p1, k1, p1, k1, p1, yo, k1
The two yoās will increase your stitch count to 9.
HTH
Iām not sure what you mean by āyarn over a knit stitch.ā
If you can link to your pattern, thatās helpful.
Thanks for the quick response!
So the yo will go with the purl stitch? I wasnāt sure you could do that!
I will try and put the pattern on here!
The yo doesnāt really āgo withā either the knit or the purl, it goes between them. If you go to youtube and search for yarn over videos youāll find lots of demonstrations for both Continental and English styles of knitting. I was looking for a video showing a yo before a knit and before a purl stitch and it can look quite different depending on which hand you use to hold your yarn, though both are doing the same thing.
What are you knitting and what is the name of your pattern? Where did you find it?
I just watched a you tube video and I think I got it!
It is on the bernat site! The corner to corner seed stitch baby blanket!
Can I ask 1 more question! When itās on the 2nd row directions it starts out (rs) and then gives the steps, is that just telling me itās the right side? Or do I need to make sure Iām stitching on the right side? I wouldnāt know how to change it if I was on the wrong side?! Thanks in advance!
Thatās telling you that you are looking at the right side.
Questions arenāt limited here, you can ask all you want. Usually someone can get back to you fairly quickly. Yarnspriations is down and I couldnāt find your pattern on Ravelry. Are you working from a few stitches and increasing to make it wider?
ETA It probably wonāt matter much on a seed stitch blanket but you can use a stitch marker, safety pin, or a piece of yarn to mark the right side.
Yesā¦working from a few stitches and making it wider! You have helped so muchā¦thanks!
That pattern makes a really nice blanket. Post a picture of it if youād like, we love to see what people make. Iām glad I could help. Happy knitting. :knitting:
I will definately post a picture when I am done! Iām so excited because I am half way thru, but I have another questions for you. Iām now starting to decrease and my pattern says, "K1. yo. P3tog. K1."
Iām not at home so I canāt find the exact pattern online. I understand the P3tog, but Iām confused at how I do the yo. On a yo. p1. you have to wrap the string around 3 times. Do I do that with this one too and then does it only take away only 2 stitches. correct?! I so appreciate your help! Thanks in advance.
Are you saying that when you do a yo. p1. you take the yarn from the back of the work over the needle to the front, then under the needle to the back before coming over the needle a second time so it is in the correct position to purl and there are 2 strands on the top of the needle?
Yesā¦thatās correct! Do I do that same thing for the yo. p3tog.?
Yesā¦thatās correct! Do I do the same thing for a yo. p3tog.?
No, when you do a yo (between a knit to a purl) you should bring the yarn forward under the needle (as if you are going to purl normally) then take the yarn over the needle to the back and tuck it under the needle a second time. The will give you one strand on toop of the needle and put the yarn at the front of the work ready for you to do the purl stitich.
The article below explains how to do yoās between every combination of knit and purl stitch. It a āwell thumbed classicā on KnitttingHelp that I lifted from another thread.
http://explaiknit.typepad.com/let_me_explaiknit/yarnovers/index.html
I was really confused about what you said you were doing and Iām glad itās been clarified. To Julieās comment Iād add: If youāve been doing double yarn overs up till now, you can continue with double yarn overs so that the second half matches the first half. The double yarn overs will result in larger holes than single yarn overs will and to change now would mess things up. I donāt think that the larger holes will be a problem in your blanket, just be consistent.
Iāll back GG when she says ābe consistentā. Blankets are very forgiving when knitters put in their own mistakes design elements.
I think the larger eyelets (fancy schmancy word for the holes youāre making) will be very pretty. You can consider this a BOGO free in yo lessons. iknitwithcatfur has a video for yarn over 101 I think that will cover just about anything youād want to know to go along with Julieās link. My internet is super slow so Iāll let you look it up if youāre interested.
Darn itā¦I think I have been doing a double yo! Grr! I love how the blanket is turning out so Iām glad I donāt need to restart it! I was so proud of myself that I had been doing everything correctly!! I appreciate all the help!! You guys are awesome!
If I were doing a double yo, would that give me 3 extra stitches? I was counting after every row just to be sure that I had the right amount of stitches and I always ended up with the right number! So maybe I have been doing just 1 yo. I will have to double check when I get home!
Unless you worked each of the yoās separately, you wouldnāt be off on your stitch count. Knitting can be very forgiving.
Iām so glad it can be forgivingā¦itās hard when I like to do everything EXACTLY how the directions state. And hard to just be okay with it being different! Ha!!! However, with that being said, I wouldnāt want to start this one over! So I will get over it quickly! lol