(K2tog,yo)

How-to Questions
1

Good Morning everyone :cheering: I am doing a blanket with 25 individual squares…I am running into this stitch (K2tog,yo) 3 times .So begin with knit 2 together, do yarn over…then that means the first K2tog will not be a yarn over right :?? then I’ll end up with a yarn over to start the next set of sts? Right? :shrug: ending up with yarn over to do next set of sts in pattern??? Thanks :muah:

2

some knitting books have been poorly edited, and lead new knitters to think a Yarn Over is a 2 part thing:
1–Wrap yarn over the needle,
2–Knit a stitch

this is a mistake.

a yarn over is
1–Wrap Yarn over needle
(continue by working next stitch in the pattern–what ever it is)

so you need to: /K2tog, YO/K2tog, YO/ K2tog, YO/
(the /'s just setting off each set!)

6 stitches in the row “worked” (3 sets of K2togs, and 6 stitches on needles when done (3 knits, 3 YO’s)

3

Really? :?
Now I’m confused!

Rebecca

4

Confused about…?

A yo may be followed by a knit, a purl, a slip stitch or k2tog, but should not be wrapping the yarn around the needle and knit 1. Think of a yo as making a stitch where you don’t insert the right needle into a stitch on the left needle.

sue

5

You shouldn’t be doing a YO as the last stitch on the row. Is that part of your question? Check your pattern. There should be a few stitches for the border at the beginning and end.

6

I bet the last stitch is a knit 1. 25 is an odd number, so you would be doing k2tog, yo 12 times, then have one at the end.

sue

7

Thanks everyone…I think Troy is right…I am not doing 25 sts, I am doing 25 individual squares… #1 square pattern is called “Imperial Branch”… these instructions are down a ways into the pattern. The border K3 has already been establised, so this is part of the actual design: K9,K2tog,yo,K5, (K2tog,yo) 3times, K1 … I think I should end up with 6 sts on the needle…My orignal question was do I end up with a yarn over to work the next K1…after the 3 times :muah: :muah: