In a charted pattern what does No Stitch mean?

General Knitting
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I am totally confussed right now could be this sinus infection, I have checked my books but can’t find the answer.
Question is in a Charted Pattern when one of the boxes or several boxs are marked NO STITCH what does it mean? I have to do somthing with this stitch before I move on to the next stitch.
As DR Phil says this isn’t my first rodeo knitting but I have never understood the stitch NO Stitch. Can someone explain to this dummy here. thanks:muah:

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ignore it. it isn’t there. it is just a place holder in order to make other portions of the chart line up.

It’s the “gap in the map” - you don’t see it, you don’t do anything with it, in real life it doesn’t exist.

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It’s like ‘knit 0’ in a printed pattern, skip the [I]box[/I] (not the stitch) and go on to the next box.

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That is what I thought but the problem is it is a 6 stitch repeat pattern.
1st row no stitch, K 2 , P2tog, p2
2nd row, no stitch, purl 1, K 2, p2
I think I know what I am doing it is just the way the pattern is written up. for the first row I will just k2, then p2tog then p 2! next row will just have 5 stitches per repeat so I just p1, k2 p2 and so on right!!!:hug:

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does your pattern have “vertical sides” or do you start on a tip maybe? If you started on a tip then maybe the stitches will exisit in rows a little higher?

But as said: just close your eyes to it, it just isn’t there.

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I think I know what I am doing it is just the way the pattern is written up. for the first row I will just k2, then p2tog then p 2! next row will just have 5 stitches per repeat so I just p1, k2 p2 and so on right!!!

Exactly, just ignore the no stitch and do R 1 over 6 sts, then you’ll have the 5 sts for the repeats on R 2.

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Agreed

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thanks:cheering:

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:cheering:

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Hi,

I really hope someone can help! I’m relatively new to knitting, knitting my first jumper and it was going really well, have got totally used to ignoring the ‘no stitch’ until

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Sorry! Until I came to a no stitch at the beginning of the row, the stick was there in the last row (I didn’t decrease on the last row but am decreasing in this row) help!?!

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Welcome to KH!
Can you give us a pattern name please?
Are you working from a chart? The grey (usually) “no stitch” boxes are there to hold the shape of the grid. It may be that there’s a decrease on the current row. What happens if you skip the no stitch box and work the first stitch on the needle as given in the next box? Does the current row them make sense?

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If you do charted patterns (like me) with cables, these “no stitches” are wonderful as the increases in the right places and subsequent decreases let your pattern lay flat instead of a case of wavy edges.

These often come along with if you are into Celtic or Irish or Viking knitting cables, with lifted increases, not really Make 1 Left or right, but into the side of the row below. Sometimes knit out of order to make the row below on the left side of the stich then available.

Cables which appear out of nowhere and end the same way have become a fascination to me.