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knittingI am making a dishcloth in order to practice following a pattern. My previous knitting experience includes two plain sweaters and a baby blanket in seed stitch, so I can knit, purl, and increase and decrease at the end of the row just fine. But I'm not very good at understanding exactly what my yarn is doing, or at visualizing what directions really mean.
This dishcloth is supposed to be more or less square. I started by casting on 66 stitches, knitting a row, and then "y2rn, K2 tog, repeat" for the next row. I think I did that right -- I stuck the needle through two loops at once, then twisted the yarn around the needle and completed the stitch, so that I ended up with two new loops on the needle, held together at the top by two old loops.
Now there are still 66 loops on the needle, but each pair of loops is really one larger loop doubled over, if that makes sense. That's what's causing me difficulty at the moment, since the next instruction is just to knit the following row. If I start knitting one of the two loops of the first pair, the other loop comes undone so that I have one big loop instead of two regular ones. If I knit the other loop, the other one stays on the needle but it seems like it's at the wrong angle somehow to be knitted. And if I knit them together, I'll end up with 33 stitches instead of 66, which doesn't seem conducive to ending up with a square!
Maybe I am supposed to end up with 33 stitches, and then the others come back later? But I can't figure out where, from looking at the rest of the pattern.
The instructions I've already described are supposed to form the top of the border for the dishcloth. Most of the rest is the following two rows, repeated alternatingly:
(1) * K2tog, yrn, P2, yon, sl1, K1, psso, repeat from * to the end of the row.
(2) P2, K2, * P4, K2, repeat from * to last 2 sts, P2.
Does anyone know what I ought to be doing? Do you think I did my y2rn, k2tog row incorrectly, and if so, can you describe (or point me to some description or video tutorial) of what I should do instead? Sorry if my description of what I've done is not clear; I definitely haven't mastered knitting language yet. (Speaking of which, this pattern is from a Golden Hands special, published in Great Britain in 1972. It has a chart of abbreviations, so if anything I copied above isn't still in use, let me know and I will translate it!)
This dishcloth is supposed to be more or less square. I started by casting on 66 stitches, knitting a row, and then "y2rn, K2 tog, repeat" for the next row. I think I did that right -- I stuck the needle through two loops at once, then twisted the yarn around the needle and completed the stitch, so that I ended up with two new loops on the needle, held together at the top by two old loops.
Now there are still 66 loops on the needle, but each pair of loops is really one larger loop doubled over, if that makes sense. That's what's causing me difficulty at the moment, since the next instruction is just to knit the following row. If I start knitting one of the two loops of the first pair, the other loop comes undone so that I have one big loop instead of two regular ones. If I knit the other loop, the other one stays on the needle but it seems like it's at the wrong angle somehow to be knitted. And if I knit them together, I'll end up with 33 stitches instead of 66, which doesn't seem conducive to ending up with a square!
Maybe I am supposed to end up with 33 stitches, and then the others come back later? But I can't figure out where, from looking at the rest of the pattern.
The instructions I've already described are supposed to form the top of the border for the dishcloth. Most of the rest is the following two rows, repeated alternatingly:
(1) * K2tog, yrn, P2, yon, sl1, K1, psso, repeat from * to the end of the row.
(2) P2, K2, * P4, K2, repeat from * to last 2 sts, P2.
Does anyone know what I ought to be doing? Do you think I did my y2rn, k2tog row incorrectly, and if so, can you describe (or point me to some description or video tutorial) of what I should do instead? Sorry if my description of what I've done is not clear; I definitely haven't mastered knitting language yet. (Speaking of which, this pattern is from a Golden Hands special, published in Great Britain in 1972. It has a chart of abbreviations, so if anything I copied above isn't still in use, let me know and I will translate it!)
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Date: 2012-04-23 03:46 am (UTC)k2tog is to take two stitches and make them one, and the yrn (commonly written as yo) is just a loop. So you should be ending up with one loop supporting two stitches and one loop made from nothing. When you go back and knit those, the yo will make a hole, and the one loop holding two will be solid, so you will get eyelet.
Hang on, this really is described best in video.
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Date: 2012-04-23 04:10 am (UTC)I'm not sure why it's directing y2rn instead of yrn (the difference being that y2rn -- wrapping the yarn twice instead of once -- results in a bigger loop), but ... /headtilt/
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Date: 2012-04-23 07:55 pm (UTC)Bring yarn to front of needle between the needles from back and take it over the top of the needle to the back; bring yarn to the front of the needle again and over the top of the needle to the back. Then you'll be able to knit the next two stitches together.
On the next row, only knit into the first loop of the y2rn and let the second one fall off the needle without working. You'll end up with a bigger hole than just a single yarnover/yrn.