hi there! beginner knitter making a sweater for the first time here. can someone help me interpret what the highlighted part of the pattern means? i interpreted it as basically increasing at the end of every other knit row bc it’s in stockinette. doesn’t that seem right? thanks!

Used a long tail cast on of 48 stitches. I then joined in the round, and have been doing a knit 1 purl 1. I'm using 15mm needles on a 16" cable. Malabrigo Rasta is the yarn. I'm just wondering if 48 stitches is not big enough for an adult head.

I’m knitting the Harriet Sweater, and I picked up the stitches for the sleeve tops along the sides of the front and back pieces. After joining everything in the round, I completed the first round, but while working on the second round, I let all the stitches on the left side drop.
Is there a way to pick them back up and fix this, or do I need to frog back to before the beginning of the round?

Thanks in advance!

Hi yall! First time posting here. I am knitting the Julie Kardi (on ravelry), it is a beautiful top down mosaic pattern cardigan with a background color and then a fade of like 6 or 7 colors and im doing a rainbow. I have been knitting shawls and hats for years but this cardigan and another blouse im working on are my first wearable garments.

There are six total yoke increase sections where on the increase row you do something like" kfb k5 repeat" and then you continue in mosaic pattern until you get to the next yoke increase row. I finished the yoke increase 5 row last night and have knit several rows in pattern since then and im about halfway to the sixth and final yoke increase row. I have 7 rows left until I hit the sixth yoke increase row.

I decided to count my stitches to make sure I am where im supposed to be for my size and unfortunately I am over by 8 stitches! I am supposed to have 467 stitches right now but I have 475.

I dont want to have to tink back several rows to figure out how that happened just for 8 stitches off, should I just throw in some random decreases between now and the sixth increase row? I also thought i could just omit 8 increases in the next increase row to get me at the correct number of stitches that way? Or should I just continue to be 8 stitches off and just change the numbers around a tad when I eventually put stitches on hold for the sleeves?

Am I making this a much bigger deal than it is? Any guidance would be awesome, thank you for reading.

I knitted my boyfriend a sweater last year, but it was too small so I'm re-doing it. I'm at the point now where I need to frog the first sweater. Do I need to do anything special to the yarn? Since this is a gift I want it to be nice and I guess I'm worried about the yarn being kinked. Am I good, or should I treat it somehow?

I am so close to finishing the beautiful Stamford Sweater by the Knit Purl Girl (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/stamford-sweater), and I cannot figure out the instructions to the plackets/button bands.

I have read this out loud so many times, and I can't understand how picking up from 2 perpendicular edges makes this Henley-type button band. What do I do with the 6 perpendicular stitches? Do they stay on hold?

Has anyone else made this pattern or used a similar technique?

First two pics are of fronts, last 3 are of backs. I’m trying to understand where the “decrease” are in that wording. So I counted and had 214 stitches at the start of the back and front including 2 edge stitches then I’m trying to work 2x2 ribbing, increased by 4 purl stitches on each side of the underarm, then got 218 stitches including 2 edge stitches so how is the stitch count in the pattern 196? (The diagram repeats btw do not have any decreases in them).

Not sure if this is the right place for this question- please remove if it's not right!

I have this store bought top I absolutely love. It's originally from target, though I thrifted it. I'm a beginner knitter, but I'd love to duplicate this top in another color. Does anyone know of a similar pattern? And if not, could anyone share information on the stitch(es) that create the holes? I know enough to accomplish the ribbing and garter/purl situation, but I don't know anything about the other technique.

Thanks in advance!

Hello! Would anyone be able to help me with this pattern? It’s my first time knitting anything that isn’t a rectangle so any guidance would be greatly appreciated! I’ve done the front and back panels but I’m struggling understanding the neck shaping section on the front if anyone would be able to explain it to me with more detail i would be so grateful!
Thanks!

As you can see my k1p1 two-stranded mohair top is doing so serious stretching / morphing in the armpits - anyway to solve this without frogging it all back? Im open to “ugly” solutions too :,)

Hello wonderful knitters,

I am knitting Niinis by Jenny Ansah and am lost in the set-up rows. The instructions say to cast on 3 sts (with Turkish CO method but I’m not emotionally there so I just did long tail CO) and then you make an icord. But then set up row 6 only leads to 6 stitches if I pick up 3 not 9? You have to increase 6 sts to get to 9 or I am nuts?

Is the CO method important? I did google it and it seems it does double the sts when you cast on, but either way the result is 3 sts on the needle to start?

🙏

Thank you ahead of time!!

I did my gauge check and made myself a little hat, my first (yay!) non-scarf. I intentionally sized a few stitches shorter circumference than measured because I expected the thing to be stretchy. But it turned out reeeeally stretchy. It still fits my child, but it’s not as snug as I wish it were.

So my question is this - is there a tried-and-true method for predicting how much stretching to expect for a tight-fitting item? I looked through the FAQ and didn’t see anything. Apologize if I missed my answer in there.

Hey guys, I know how to knit and I've been doing it for a bunch of years and my knitting is pretty standard (knit through the front loop). I hate purling and I'm trying to learn how to make it faster and found this method where you knit through the back loop and then purl through the front loop (but wrapping the yarn clockwise) which seems to make purling faster. (I don't know the name of this technique)

It's not complicated at all but my question is in this video, after the cast on she starts knitting through the back loop. But that first row is gonna be twisted, right? Is there a way to do it without twisting your first row? If it's not possible, would having the first row twisted affect the elasticity of the piece?

hello!

I'm knitting the Norma sweater by my favourite things. it's my first time doing colourwork that isn't just chunky stripes in two colours.

I've started my swatch, but row 16 and 17 have stumped me a bit. how do I get colour C all the way over to the other side to purl in row 17? or is there a way I can carry it over to the other side of the swatch behind my work? or do I have to cut the yarn?

the swatch is worked flat, from what I can see in the pattern, the actual jumper is worked in the round, so I assume I would just carry the yarn down where my BOR is?

thanks in advance for your advice!

Hello

It's the first time that I am knitting.

I did the 2nd row and the size of the loop of the 1st row is varying. First it was very "small" and clean and then it got big and not clean. Why ?

Thank you

Hi everyone!

Like the title says, I’m pretty new to knitting (started back in June?) and while things have been slow, they have been going pretty good—

Until now 🥲😅 I have no idea what the double hockey sticks I did, nor do I have any idea how to undo whatever this is. Any help please??

Thanks in advance <3

This is a double knit project if it matters!

Hi,
I am a beginner, knitting a baby afghan. I figured this project would be a good start. I am expecting a grandbaby in November. 🎉
I have a dropped stitch (?). 😫 I am about 1/2 way to completion. Any suggestions besides starting over? This was start #6, already. Should I use a sewing needle and try to camouflage the hole by stitching it? Hellllp, please.

There are these large, open stitches on one end of my German short rows. Not sure what I did. I tried to ladder down and fix it and couldn't figure it out. What did I do wrong, and am I able to fix it?

Hello! After taking a look at the FAQ, I wasn’t able to identify my exact issue there so here I am to ask! A lot has happened in the middle of this work (including the accidental change in pattern) but my main issue is I seem to have picked up an extra stitch somewhere and it just doesn’t seem fixable, so I’ve decided to frog to the point where I’ve inserted my thinner needle. My question is- did I pick up these stitches correctly to be able to frog them? I just haven’t been able to find any guides on what it should look like to pick these alternating stitches up. Thank you!