Hi all!
I am knitting Sweater No9 from My Favourite Things Knitwear. It has raglan lines which are made using M1R and M1L.
The pattern is knitted in stockinette. Where the raglan lines are, there are six stitches - P2 K2 P2. I do M1R just before this set of six and M1L immediately after.
Im 99.9% sure I’m doing the increases correctly (have watched a lot of video tutorials!) but I seem to have odd looking holes where my M1R are (see photo). The increases are worked every other row and the in between one is ‘worked as seen’ ie knit the knits and purl the purls. I’m wondering if I’m working the stitches incorrectly on this row when I reach the M1 stitches. They look slightly different to normal stitches so it’s not immediately clear whether I should knit or purl them. I have been knitting them.
Any help gratefully received!
Thanks in advance 
Welcome to KH!
You can see this problem in some of the projects.
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Deebick1/sweater-no-9
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/gingerhook/sweater-no-9
I tried working the sts more tightly at the knit/purl transition on the plain rounds and working them more loosely but neither were completely satisfactory. It may be that blocking will even out some of the sts near the hole and close it up a little.
You might try working a small sample with your yarn then wet blocking to see if that helps.
I hope others have a solution.
Hello
Salmonmac knows far more than me about these things but I thought I’d stop by with my thoughts just in case it could help.
A M1 on the right side of stockinette is a knit stitch, therefore on the wrong side it would be worked as a purl even if it looks a little different and is more difficult to “read”. Although reading your work is a great thing, if you are not fully sure you can look back at the pattern on the right side (the fabric or the written pattern) and find out what was there on the right side. Then switch for the wrong side.
I had a bit of a gap like this with a knit purl transition when I did intarsia. I had more success in working the previous or following 2 stitches more tightly (quite tightly) rather than trying to tighten the loose stitch as it’s made. This way the extra yarn has somewhere to go to (into those tighter stitches to loosen them).
Maybe try it on a swatch and have an experiment with it?
Thanks for your reply. How do you know what is the right side and wrong side when you’re knitting in the round…? Sorry if that’s a silly question!
Sorry, I missed that this was in the round… so I think my tip is moot.
To answer the RS WS question anyway though, the RS, right side, is the side everyone looks at, the best side, in stockinette it is the columns of v shapes. Your photo shows the right side.
The WS, wrong side is the inside of a garment, under side of a table cloth, so the side we don’t look at. On stockinette it’s the purlmside, bumpy, not v shaped.
So… if you are knitting in the round your M1 is a knit and you are correct in knitting it when you come back around to it.
My fault for not realising you were working in the round. Sorry.
No need to apologise at all! I’ve had a look and I think a lot of people have come across this problem. It seems to perhaps be something to do with the fact the M1R is immediately followed by a purl. It doesn’t look terrible but I think the end result will annoy me!
The transition from knit to purl in an intarsia colour change was causing me a gap. It’s not the same problem but sort of similar.
I think someone recommended to me to wind the yarn the opposite direction on the purl stitch which uses up less yarn making it tighter. Then, because it causes a twisted stitch to untwist it on the next round when you come to work it.
I am sure I did this in addition to working the following stitches tighter and it closed my ladder.
As I’m not all that experienced I often work tips and then forget them! Maybe @salmonmac can confirm if this could could a method you could try, if this trick transfers to this project?
I had an intarsia colour transition both sides of a panel but only 1 side was producing a ladder, seems you’re having one sided problem too, with the other being less of a problem.
