Hi~~~I’m wondering if anyone slips the 1st stitches when doing ribbing; for example, K1, P1. Thanks!:knitting:
Nope
I don’t anymore after reading in Maggie Righetti’s book, ‘Knitting in Plain English,’ stating to work the first stitch of a row, insert the right-hand needle into the second stitch and give the yarn a firm tug to extra-tighten that first stitch. She stated this is about the only time she would ever direct you to tug on the yarn. I’ve done this, since taking up knitting again last year, and it works. Well, with the exception of my awful-looking afghan I am now working on. Grrrrrr. Double yarns, thick ones, thin ones, fuzzy ones. You name it. Anyway, I plan to keep on working that first stitch unless directed by the pattern otherwise.
Are you referring to the st pattern called ‘Slipped Rib’ which actually calls for Sl1 (yrn in back), P and then work WS with sts as shown? It just creates an elongated K st.
Attached is image of something similar but this is Sl1, P2 (in left of pic).
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Actually, I goofed in my question. I meant a K2, P2 ribbing, not K1, P1. I’ve been doing the K2, P2 and it didn’t seem to need slipping, but since there’s so much about knitting I don’t know, I wanted to ask the experts!
You wouldn’t want to slip the first K st of a K2P2 as it’d look like something like this: (^=p, v=k, /=slipped st).
^^v/^^v/^^v/
Whereas the standard K2P2 is:
^^VV^^VV^^VV
Unless that’s the look you were going for.
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