Slip stiches at start of row with yarn in front

General Knitting
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Hi hoping someone can help me I am probably being very thick about this.
I cannot for the life of me work out how at the start and end of each row I slip sticches with yarn in front and how on earth it is going to look afterwards.
Can anyone help?
thanks
Caz (reasonable beginner):cool:

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Welcome to KnittingHelp!
This video may help. It shows slipping the first stitch purlwise (which may or may not be your instructions) and it compares the resulting chained edge to unslipped edges.
You can either slip the first stitch of the row or slip the last stitch of the row but you don’t want to slip the first [I]and[/I] the last sts of the row. You couldn’t do that for very many rows before the knitting would start to pucker.

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Hi thank you I will take a look - this is the actual pattern instructions Border row 2 Sl 4 wyif, p to last 4 sts, sl 4 wyif.

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So to me that is simply slipping 4 stitches purlwise?

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Yes, slip purlwise. These are slipped sts for a pattern stitch, not the chained edge as I thought. What pattern are you doing? Can you give us a link or the name of the pattern?

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Hi
here is the pattern

  1. Pattern Stitch
    Row 1 (RS) K5, yo, *k6, SKP, k2tog, k6, yo, k2, yo; rep from * to last 21 sts, k6 SKP, k2tog, k6, yo, k5.

  2. Border row 2 Sl 4 wyif, p to last 4 sts, sl 4 wyif. So the border is knit first for 4 rows then the pattern kicks in.

It’s from 60 Quick Baby Blankets by sixth spring books the pattern is called Lacy Chevron Blanket- the book states that the edging (i.e the slipping the 4 stitches wyif) will produce an i cord effect?

thanks for all your help it’s baffling some of this lol

Caz x

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Very interesting border and pattern.


Yes, siip the first 4 sts purlwise wyif and then start purling across the row. You don’t want to pull the working yarn too tightly when you start purling but you do want to snug it up to that first purl stitch so that the slipped sts will curl around. That’ll form a kind of I-cord or rolled edge on both sides.

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thank you so much - will certainly put up a picture once I have finished it - very helpful thanks again x

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I always knit two stitches together by putting the needle through to the front when doing purl knitting and through the back of the stitches from right to left when knitting two knit stitches together - because it is easier, especially on chunky yarn.