I am a total knitting newbie. I’m knitting some booties from Zoe Mellor’s 50 Baby Bootees to Knit and the pattern calls for an eyelet row:
k2, yo, k2tog, k2 nine times, yo, k2tog, k1
I’m knitting on size 2 needles and the stitches are so incredibly tiny that it’s nearly impossible to not drop the yo,k2tog stitches. I have frogged my work a dozen times already because of this row and I don’t know how to pick up dropped stitches. This is giving me such a headache and I really want them done before my baby is born.
Are you asking how to do the stitch or how to pick up dropped stitches? If you drop a YO it would be hard to pick up I’d think. The other stitches are fairly easy. There’s a video on this pageof how to do it.
If that’s not it, the YO k2 is fairly straight forward. What part are you having trouble with?
Are your stitches so tight that you can’t get the needle in to do the k2tog? If that’s the case, rip back and re-knit the row before the eyelet row a little looser. That may help.
The yo + k2tog is a little unclear to me.
I understand the yo, and the k2tog but how to combine the two seems to be escaping me. Am I just overthinking it?
Yes. YO, then don’t think about it as you k2tog. You end up with 2 stitches. Sometimes doing a stitch combo with needles in hand is easier than reading it and trying to figure it out in your brain.
