Help! I’m knitting a baby sweater with sock yarn. It’s a Black Purl pattern called: “Sock it to me Baby”. Anyway, I started with the back, followed the pattern (I thought) exactly… I’m at a point where I’ve done the decrease rows and it now says “work even on 70 stiches until piece measures 9 1/4 inches”…problem is that I have only 69 stitches.
I see three options:
A. Work backwards until I find my mistake (I hope not)?
B. Work even on 69 stitches
C. Figure out how to make another stitch and simply move ahead
Just increase one stitch and you’ll be fine. If it was me, I’d increase one somewhere in the middle because I like symmetry, but increases one stitch at the beginning of a row would probably be more invisible. Whichever you prefer, and you’ll be the only one who knows anyways!
I second. One stitch is not going to make any difference in the finished piece. You [I]could[/I] even keep going with 69 stitches, but that would bug me, so I would increase like knitqueen suggested
If you can’t spot your dropped stitch, I bet I know where it is!
This has happened to me! I dropped the very end-of-the-row stitch. Just didn’t knit it! It just kinda rolls over and hangs there. Take a look at all your edges and see if you can spot it!
And now I realize…I don’t know if you were knitting a pattern that has yarn overs. That is also a common “missing stitch”…when you forget to do a yarn over.
Whenever I am knitting something that has yarnovers…I do a “head count” at the end of every working row…To make sure everyone is still on board! If someone is missing, I check those yarn overs first!:wall:
I bound off an extra stitch when I did my arm hole (that’s why they look uneven!) I’ve decided to march on - I’m not going all the way back (maybe I’m lazy…but a sweater with sock yarn takes long enough!) I’ll fudge it when I shape the neck.
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