I have done this stitch a few times with no problems. However last night when I did this stitch on a pair of socks there there “bumpies” on the top of the toe.
Does anyone know what causes this? I would have a picture but I ended up frogging the toe part of sock (yet, again).
I swear these socks are going to get the best of me!
If you mean kind of like ‘rabbit ears’ at the beginning and end of your grafting one way to get rid of it is to slip the outermost stitches at both ends of both needles over the stitch next to it. This also means 2 less stitches on each needle to graft.
If the ‘bumpies’ are from uneven tension, try sliding a darning egg or other small round (unbreakable) object inside the sock so you can see the stitches form as you graft and adjust your tension as you go. I sometimes find it hard to adjust all the stitches at the end, especially with very thin yarns.
If it’s something else then I’m :shrug: :?? clueless and would like to hear other ideas too.
I’m one of those crazy 
people who LOVE Kitchner stitch. If you want to get REALLY good at grafting take a look at EZ’s mystery blanket sometime - squares started in the middle on 4 stitches, knit outward, then grafted on all sides to the squares adjacent, outer edges put on really loonnnngggggg needle (I had to hook all my Denise’s together) and the edging knitted outward with mitered corners.
The mystery is it’s really hard to tell where you cast on and bound off. Fun!
Happy Kitchnering!!
Mary
I was finally getting the knack of this stitch after watching Amy’s video’s a gazillion times, and then drawing myself a diagram! However, I recently picked up this book: The Knitting Answer Book and it had very easy to follow directions (for when you aren’t at the computer!), and also mentions MaryS’s suggestion about slipping the stitches 
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Well, this is weird because I just had something similar happen … I think.
I’ve done Kitchener stitch before, and it was FINE, but today I grafted the shoulders & underarms of my Emma Jacket. When I did the shoulder seams, I didn’t have the Kitchener directions in front of me, but I have the old mantra down … knit slip purl; purl slip knit … yadda yadda … but I ended up with a row of PURL BUMPS when I got done!! :?? I was so confused, but I decided to just live with it because I wanted to make progress while I was waiting for the kids during piano lessons.
So, I came home later & sat down to do the underarms. I pulled out THREE books with Kitchener instructions in them and followed the instructions EXACTLY and STILL ended up with purl bumps under the arms.
Now I just sat down and watched Amy’s video again, and I SWEAR TO YOU that I’m doing it just as she shows it. Why am I ending up w/ PURL BUMPS?!! :pout:
well, the only time I’ve gotten purl bumps from kitchener stitching is when i had the right sides together instead of the wrong sides together.
But I had the right sides OUT and the wrongs sides IN. :pout: I even thought about turning it around and doing it inside out. I can’t figure out what I did wrong. :verysad:
Now I M not any kind of expert at the @^&(&^@ Kitchner Stitch
but I think it depends on what stitch you start on
This SOUNDS really stupid when i try to think it ouot, but I have messed up the Kitchner on the same thing multiple times, and when I started in a stitch (or what I thought was a stitch in) it came out PERFECTLY
I have yet to reproduce it
but I had tried it wrong side in, right side in
maybe some of my rambling and chaos can help
ecb
Thanks for trying, ecb!!
I started it the same way Amy does in her video … I THINK … I need to take another looks at it, and I just haven’t had time… ARgh!
off to taekwondo.