HELP! Slip stitch knitting! What am I doing wrong? >>>

How-to Questions
1

Okay, I’m watching a DVD and reading the pattern. It says:

  1. Knit across with Color A.
  2. With Color B, K1, Sl 1 WYIB, K3 to last st, K1
  3. With Color B, K1, Sl 1 WYIF, K3 to last st, K1

I keep ending up with one less stitch at the end.

Also, when I slip 1, then go to knit the next stitch, the working yarn is always one space back on the needle, as though I have to go over the slip stitch.

HELP!

2

:think: How many are you starting with? It looks like you would need a multiple of 4 plus 2 for the end stitches. Is that what you have?

3

Your working yarn will be one back, because you don’t work the slipped st. So you go from previously k st, over the sl st, to the one you will knit. Is that what’s happening? Well, it will do that when you sl WYIB at any rate. Not sure WYIF though

4

Actually, the pattern calls for a multiple of 4 plus 3…

?

5

What’s the pattern?

6

Yeah, something doesn’t add up… k1 on each end is 2, and the repeats are slip 1, k3 which is 4. So it should be multiple of 4+2 sts