Just had to tink a big of extreme afghan I’m making due to a mistake. I thought I’d dropped a stitch at first, but couldn’t see how I could have when the fabric stayed firm. When I’d undone to that point, I found that I’d knitted into the second stitch on left needle by mistake. It created a slightly looser fabric, which wasn’t unpleasant. Has anyone done this, and is it a known technique?
I’m not sure what you are saying. Did you knit the second stitch and then the first one? If you knit the second one but never knit the first one it should have been just like a dropped stitch, but it sounds like what you did was not that.
Famous knitter Elizabeth Zimmermann said that anything that you can do as a mistake can be a real technique in the right situation, with the exception of splitting the yarn. She said she knew of no use of that as a technique.
If you knit the second stitch and then the first stitch that is a well known technique that twists the two stitches kind of because they are out of order.
Or do you mean you knit into the stitch in the row below the one on the needles? That too is a pattern stitch which will certainly come in handy on future projects!
Oh, that would be k1below and it’s loose, but thick when you do it on every other stitch.
I knit into the second stitch on the left needle purl wise, completely missing and ignoring the first stitch and it was only noticeable because there wasn’t a bump at the bottom of that stitch. It was a firm stitch for 2 rows until I noticed, unlike when I later accidentally dropped a stitch off.
If you didn’t knit into the first st at all but put it onto the R needle, that’s a slip st and can be used a lot of different ways in patterns.
Ty, I just realized that too cos I’m now doing linen stitch. I sometimes have trouble identifying things as something I already know when I do it a lil different.