Hello, I am currently knitting the petrol softly dress by lacelegance on revelry and the instructions for the first piece start like this: “Cast on 152sts (150 +2 edge sts) on 1.5mm straight needles using tubular cast and work 2 rows of 1x1 rib, insert 3.5mm needles and work 14 rows more of the same rib. Then work 8 rows of stockinet: P stitches on the right side and K stitches on the wrong side. Fold last 8 rows in half and sew opened loops of last row to the stitches of last rib row”
I am having a very hard time with sewing the live stitches onto the ribbing so I’m wondering what is the overall function of doing this? Is it going to be essential to the pattern in some way? I need to adjust the pattern to make it longer anyway so could I just skip the part where I fold it over and leave it as 8 rows of stockinette?
Jan, thanks for the link.
It seems that this is making a tuck in the knitting depending on how it continues. Perhaps it’s to give a bit more weight to the bottom edge of the dress. You could continue with 4 or 8 rows of stockinette or reverse stockinette here depending on the look you want. If you want to lengthen it you may have to add more length to the body of the sweater anyway.
I don’t think so especially if you go with 4 rows of stockinette. It seems to be more to do with the hang of the dress toward the lower hem.
If you can’t sew the sts together can you knit them together? Often you see pattern where live sts are knit together with a row of sts several rows below. Then the pattern continues with the sts on the needle.
The only way to know may be to give it a try.