Hello all! I really need some help with a new pattern I’m working on. The pattern starts (59 stitches) 'k1,*p1,k1. Repeat from * to last 18 sts, wrap next stitch and turn. Row 2 repeat. Rows 3 and 4 repeat to last 15 stitches, wrap next stitch and turn. Rows 5 and 6 repeat to last 12 stitches, etc etc to the end of row 18. It says when working back across wrapped stitches work the wrapped stitch and the wrapping loop together as one stitch. So my moss stitch is set, however if i knit the wrap stitches and loops that have been purled together as one stitch I lose stitches. If I don’t I seem to gain them!!! What am I doing wrong??? The pattern is Winter from the Kim Hargreaves book Cherished.
You shouldn’t lose stitches when you knit the wrap together with the stitch. You’re supposed to lift the “wrap” that’s around the stitch from when you “wrapped and turned” and knit (or purl) it together with the stitch it was around.
Here is a video that demonstrates:
How many stitches are you losing?
By the time I get to the 15th row I’ve lost 4 stitches so I think I’m losing one on every row that purls the wrap stitch. That video is interesting - I haven’t been doing it like that. The pattern tells me to wrap by slipping the stitch on to the right needle, bringing the wool forward between the needles, slip stitch back on to left needle, take wool back again then turn. When I then commence again my wool is at the front so when starting with a knit stitch it forms what looks like a double stitch in the needle - it’s this that I’m then knitting as one. Is this incorrect?
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Before you turn your work, the wrapped stitch is back on the left needle. After the turn, the wrap
ped stitch is sitting on what is now the right needle and you don’t work it or its wrap on this row at all.
According to your pattern, you won’t work the wrapped stitch until several rows of wrap and turn are complete. Then you work across until you come to a wrap stitch and knit or purl it together with its collar or wrap.
Depending on which row of the moss stitch you’re on, you may need to knit the next stitch on the left needle. In that case, move the yarn to the back, between the needle tips so that you can knit. You shouldn’t get that double stitch on the needle that way.
Thank you so much everyone! I was wrapping then knitting the wraps totally wrong! Got it now after your advice and I’m off!!!