Gah!

#1

Someone distracted me incessantly, and while I thought I remembered where I was in my pattern, apparently I didn’t. And I have no idea how to count my rows, and the instructions I found online are yielding me far more stitches than I could possibly have.

Either side of the pattern is 3 knit stitches, and the stitches in between are different repetitions. I should be able to count the stitches on the side to find the number of rows, right? So why do I do that and get a totally impossible number? What is the right way to count rows?

And this is so obnoxious. :wall:

#2

I count the purl bumps on the wrong side, or by twos for the ridges in garter stitch. Each ridge in garter st is 2 rows, the first row will be the knit ‘valley’, the first knit ridge is the 2nd row.

#3

Whether you do it from the rs knit stitches or ws purl bumps make sure you are only counting one column of stitches. It might help to lay a ruler along one column and then count. :thumbsup:

#4

When I count what I think are the ridges based off the diagrams, I end up with an impossible number of rows.

Like more than 100 when I could only conceivably have 76.

I don’t get it.

#5

Don’t count the ridges on both sides and add them together, just count on one side or another.