Stitch counting and the slipknot loop

#1

So I’ve started on the wash cloth for Texas… 3 times. I keep having trouble with the number of stitches. The pattern says to cast on 38, which I have done now 3 times and I always seem to end up with 39 stitches by the 5th or 6th row. This of course throws off the pattern. I still haven’t figured out how that keeps happening but I will.

Right now my big question is does the inital slipknot part of the casting on count as a stitch or not? I’ve done it where it did and ended up with a stitch too few. So the next time around I did it where it didn’t and then I ended up with a stitch too many. So now I’m cnofused.

Help…?

#2

Count the slip knot as a stitch.

There is a sticky at the top of the page that talks about where those extra stitches come from.

#3

If you’re not counting the slipknot as part of the 38 sts, but knitting it, that’s where the extra stitch comes from. :wink: