Row counting Q

#1

Hi,
I’m knitting an elongated stitch scarf for my grandmother and i have a couple of questions:
1 do you count the casting on as the 1st row? and
2 when you do the row after the row where you wrap the yarn for times, do you count that as the 1st garter st. row? (hope this makes sense!)
Sorry if these are really obvious questions… :oops:
Thanks for any help… I’m new (this is my 1st post) and i need it!
nicoleheather :smiley:

#2

Welcome!

Some people count the long tail cast on as a row in stockinette. Generally, though, it does not count. Row one in your pattern is your first row.

As for your second question, I’m not sure what you mean. What do the directions say?

#3

http://www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2002#2002

Elongated stitch (aka Drop Stitch): insert needle as if to knit. Wrap yarn 4 times around needle. Pull all wraps through stitch. On next round, knit just the front loop, letting wraps fall off of needle.

Hi Ingrid! Thank you for the reply.
:oops: :oops: Sorry, I know it’s a confusing question! Above is the link to the pattern I’m following and a section of the pattern. It says 6 rows of garter stitch, one row of elongated stitch, repeat until scarf is long enough. When you’re doing the elongated stitch, you wrap the yarn 4 or 5 times and pull the wraps through the loop, as it says above. Then on the next row, you knit into the front loop of the stitch and let the other wraps fall off. My question is, on the row where you knit into the front loop and let the other wraps fall off, does that count as the next one row of garter stitch?
Hope this is clearer! THANK YOU!!!
nicoleheather

#4

I gotcha!

She describes the elongated stitch as the one where you wrap and the one where you drop–so I take it to mean that the 6 garter rows are just that–straight garter.

#5

Thanks, Ingrid!!! :notworthy:
Now, where’d I put that yarn?..