Hi everyone, so I have been working on the this simple child’s raglan style card for the last couple weeks now. I have gone back-and-forth knitting and tinking focusing mostly on trying to get an even gauge because the yarn is very bouncy and uneven in certain points. I recently did a stitch count and was surprised to see that my one of my sleeves is off by 2 stitches. Now it’s true that isn’t much but it drives me crazy because I can’t see where it happened? Like going back and looking over the seams there’s no point at which I can see that I added extra or missed a row of increasing. Yet, I can also clearly count how the one side of ,‘seams’ (2 surrounding left sleeve) has 15 sets of increases versus the other side (right) has 16? My back section is also short one stitch.
Any ideas?? -_-
Thx.
Silly Question.. mismatched stitch count for raglan cardi
OK and I am editing this because I think I realized what must have happened. I think maybe somehow I sort of did an accidental turn and wrap? Like starting knitting, then must have switched and started purling in the other direction without finishing the row. Then continued back across that same section and started knitting again. This time all the way across. Because when I counted the number of rows for one sleeve, I got two less than the other smh. (Oops for being distracted whilst knitting, sigh.) Besides this error, I think the cardigan looks good. Do you think a difference of two rows is worth trying to go back and fix? I have no idea how far back the error would’ve been made and I’m not sure how to fix that kind of issue after the fact.
Titles like ‘knitting without tears,’ are hitting a lot closer to home right now, haha… 
Ty for any advice.
green_heart:
I was going to suggest that you might have done an accidental short row.
Spread your knitting out and stand back from it a bit – you may be able to see where it happened. If it is not far back, you can tink.
Otherwise, if you can’t see it or it is far back, you can leave it in and decrease or increase a couple of stitches now to get to the correct stitch count. It won’t make any noticeable difference at this gauge.
I often find it helpful to hold my knitting up so there’s light behind it, and stretch it (gently!). This sometimes makes it easier to find mistakes…there will be a place that’s brighter or darker. But honestly, if you can’t see it easily, neither will anyone else. Speckled / streaky yarn hides a lot of sins!