I’m using fun fur and I’m having major issues with an elongated stitch on this scarf. I’m knitting a few rows then doing an elongated stitch, etc ad nauseum. My problem is that the first elongated stitch worked ends up being way shorter than the rest and the last stitch ends up being way longer… what can I do to fix this problem… why’s it happening anyway???
I have never knit an elongated stitch so I can’t help you with those issues.
But I’ve knit with fun fur lots of times. I would not recommend it for anything other than straight stockinette or garter stitch. Anything remotely ‘fancy’ - cables, elongated stitches, even seed or moss stitch - will be lost in the ‘fur.’ In fact, I wonder how you can even tell that the first stitch is shorter and the last is longer. You just can’t see stitch definition with furry yarn. I would save your elongated pattern for a less furry yarn and just use garter stitch for a fun fur scarf.
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The elongated stitch is easy to tell casting six loops per stitch.
I’ve sort of “fixed” the problem by increasing the amount of loops on the first stitch by one and reducing the loops on the last by one any other issues I’ve had I’ve corrected by looping the extra before I knit that stitch.
The fun fur doesn’t show mistakes as much. I hate to Frog the whole thing though just to fix that first elongated stitch row… it’s crooked. I think I’ll just add some fringe when I’m done and hopefully that will hide the problem a little better.
Hi, I have made this scarf and usually what I do is after each row, I manually adjust the newly knitted stitches on the needle to make them look more uniform and then proceed on to knitting the next row…I hope this makes sense.
Even with regular yarn, elongated stitch patterns look different on the ends, but they even out with washing or adjustment.