Can Anyone Explain What I'm Trying to Say?

[evilawyer]

Yes, even I am confounded. I'm trying to find the name of a particular knitting stitch so I can look it up to relearn how to do it, but I can't quite describe it. It involves knitting into the stitch below the one that's on your needle. I remember using it on every other stitch on one row, then knitting or purling (I can't remember which) on the next row, with the two rows repeated.

Does this have a name? I am remembering how to do it incorrectly?

Comments

[evilawyer]

I think it's fisherman's rib as nitoda says above, but I'll check on Brioche stitch, too. Thanks for the info re: the book. I'll have to check it out. As I remember, the knitting into the row below was nerve wracking at first, but very fun once I got over my lack of trust that it wasn't all going to unravel on me.

[auntruth]

I bought the book after browsing it at library... she uses pretty simple variations on the stitches but does really lovely things with varigated yarns and with pairs of yarns. The Projects of that book on ravelry are a photo set I can really fall into

I got the hang doing of the Knit Below without too much angst, once I managed to loosen my working tension a little. But I've have had huge difficulty with any dropped stitches or frogging. I'm pretty good about seeing the structure of knit patterns, but there's something about these that really confuses me if I have to un-do or re-do a bit.

[evilawyer]

Whereas I am horrible as "seeing" the structure of a pattern. I do remember having to pay extra attention (no knitting while watching TV, etc) when I was working the piece because I simply could not pick up any dropped stitches --- and I got tired of ripping back after the third time.