The dress is coming along. I am now on the pattern for the bottom, I have 240 stitches, and this happened last time too…
at the end of the row, I have one stitch left!
Here is the pattern k1, yo, ssk, k7, k2tog, yo- I have done this twice, and I have one stitch left over- do I just knit it then? Am I counting wrong?
What pattern are you using? An extra stitch could mean an extra, unintended yo or a decrease that was missed. I’ve done both on a recent project. If you’re confident your count is off but you’ve got no mistakes you could decrease the extra stitch or just leave it. If it will be a problem as you continue then you’d probably want to decrease it out. Someone else can do the math for the row you posted and see if there’s a problem. That’s not something I’m good at.
I hate when this happens. When it does, I go back over the repeats and name the sts along the row: the k1, the yo, the ssk and so on until I find the mistake.
Good thing you’re counting at the end of the rows!
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You shouldn’t have an extra stitch because the pattern repeat is 12 stitches and your total count of 240 is divisible by 12. Have you tried to put markers in every 12 stitches? It might help you until you get your pattern established. You just have to be careful that the last yo of each repeat doesn’t jump over the stitch marker and throw you off count! Then if you’re out at the end of the row, you can isolate the mistake and correct it on the next row to save too much tinking!
Thanks- I finally figured out that it was 12 stitches and I am going to mark it- in the meantime, I have to take out 2 rows to get back on track- and I am putting it down again, my hand hurts
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best of luck.