I am planning on starting Sugar Maple socks by Melissa Morgan-Oakes. The pattern calls for a twisted stitch (?) or maybe a faux cable(?). I can’t for the life of me figure out how to do it. The words are simple, but I can’t think it through. The pattern says to “Knit 1 through back of loop of second stitch and leave on left-hand needle, knit into first stitch and move both stitches to right-hand needle.”
I guess my question is when you knit into the back of the loop of the second stitch, you have a loop on the right-hand needle, but you leave the second stitch on the left-hand needle. Then you knit into the first stitch and move both to right-hand needle…won’t that give you and increase? What am I missing. It’s not supposed to be an increase.
I’m sure when I get the answer to this, it will be a slap in the head - “how stupid can I be” moment…but at this point I am clueless. All help will be apprectiated.
You are reeeeaching behind the 1st stitch to get to the 2nd stitch. You will work a knit through the back loop of the 2nd stitch (aka, you will stick your right needle through the back loop and wrap the working yarn as if to knit)…but you WILL NOT, of course be able to pull it off the left needle UNTIL you have then worked a plain knit stitch in the 1st stitch…and THEN you allow them to pull off the left needle, onto the right needle as ‘worked’.
Suggestion: rather than make a mess of your working piece, why not cast on a dummy? Like a swatch. And work with this pattern direction on the swatch. You will feel safer in taking chances if it is right or not. I’ve done this loads of times. I’m a chicken to ‘play around’ with the real knitting!
Then when I feel I’ve GOT IT, I go back to the real deal!
Okay, I think I understand now. And you are right…I think I’ll just run a practice swatch to make sure it turns out correctly (in other words to make sure I don’t screw it up!) Thanks for the help! :knitting:
