I have a mitten pattern that calls for me to knit in the row below for each stitch across the whole row and then the next row is all knit stitch. i’ve watched Amy’s video and it’s exactly how I was doing it, but I’m getting this big loose long strand from when my stitches kind of “pulled out” when I was knitting in the row below. Am I doing something wrong? Is it supposed to look like this? Will it eventually turn into the nice little pattern?
The strands will be loose but most patterns I’ve seen for this call for you to do a regular k1 in between the k1 below. So the row goes - k1, k1b, k1, k1b etc, ending with a k1. Look at the pattern again, the regular k1s anchor the yarn, especially the end sts.
That’s exactly how the pattern is, but by the time I get to the k1 row after the knit below row, the yarn is already a big floppy strand that seems to be getting left behind as I knit. Would this sort itself out if I just kept trucking?
keep trucking for a couple of repeats, see if you like it and if you don’t try puting in a k1 between the k1b. I had the same problem on a shawl, ended up changing the stitch to plain stockinette
I meant you alternate k1 sts with k1b sts on the [B]same row[/B], not an all k1b row. Knitting all of them as k1b is what’s making it so loose. And you need to do work several rows and it starts behaving.
Thanks everyone! Not only did your posts help greatly, but wouldn’t you know it, that’s exactly how my pattern is written! I guess I need to READ my pattern!!
I thought that might be the problem! 
Good luck on this pattern. I tried to make a sweater with every other row (maybe every row) Kb but I had to give up because when I made a mistake I could not figure out how to fix a mistake in this stitch. I couldn’t find anyone who could solve this problem for me. I tried not to make any mistakes. LOL But I did. I have thought of trying it again using a life line and see if that would get me through it. You might want to try one if you run into my problem. I had to rip out clear to the beginning every time I made a mistake. Not very easy to make any progress like that.
Yeah, the trick with this stitch pattern is to go slowly, watch what you’re doing and don’t make a mistake!