Some issues with my Irish Hiking Scarf. Ack! Help, please?

#1

I am slipping the first stitch on every row so that I can get a nice edge. However, while one side looks great, the other side looks … stretched out, kinda loopy, over the first two stitches of the row. And the side that isn’t stretched out is rolling under. What could be going on with that? I’m doing the exact same thing on both sides, so I don’t get it.

Other than that, it looks gorgeous and is coming along very well. I am probably just going to finish it as is, because it doesn’t look bad … and because I am of the opinion that done is better than perfect. :lol: Just wanting to know for next time, as I am sure I will be working this pattern again – I love it!

#2

Are you knitting the first stitch as if to purl and knitting the last stitch in every row?

#3

So am I slipping the first stitch as if to purl? No, I’m slipping as if to knit. Should I be slipping purl wise instead? (I have always used a different technique for even edges – this is the first time I tried the slipped stitch thing. Before I was knitting the first stitch, inserting the needle into the second stitch to be knitting, and then pulling the WY REALLY tightly before continuing. I didn’t like the look I was getting on my last couple of projects, though, so I decided to change it up and see what happened.) Why would one side look okay and the other side look funky, though?

And yes, I am always knitting the last stitch of every row. That’s how the pattern reads anyway, so that part’s easy.

#4

I’ve always read that you should slip as if to purl. When you do this, the yarn is in the front and if you bring it around under your needle to knit the next stitch, you will get a little wrap on the side. Maybe that makes the difference. :thinking:

#5

I think there are different ways to do edge stitches.

from knitty:
To make a slipped-stitch edging in the first place: on the knit rows, hold the yarn in the back of the work and slip the first stitch of the row as if to knit. On purl rows, hold the yarn in front and slip the first stitch as if to purl. By doing so you’re only working the edge stitch every other row. This makes an edge stitch which looks like an elongated V, resembling a large knit stitch,

skacel:
Edge Stitches:
On all rows, always knit first st and slip last st while holding yarn to front

See?!! I notice that Adrian does the slip stitch thing on her Besotted Scarf, but not the Irish Hiking Scarf for some reason. Actually on the Besotted, she slips on the RS and the WS.

#6

this is very interesting! like ingrid, i had always been told and heard to slip p-wise unless the pattern explicitly states to sl k-wise. i’m going to have to try knitty’s method.