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Thread: Too few stitches! HELP!
Started 4 weeks, 1 day ago by jessthekat
I'm trying to knit a flower using this pattern: http://www.knitonthenet.com/issue3/p.../lydiaflowe rs/ however I'm ending up with too few stitches at the end of each row. I'm a new knitter, and confess to jumping into projects and learning on the job... Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? At the cast off instruction, I'm literally casting off the stitches as I would at the ...
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MMario replied 4 weeks ago
HOw many stitches are you using per repeat of the (bind off 3, k2). I bet you use 5, which was what I would have used, but to make this work you need to use six per repeat. I would have written the first row as: k1 (k1, bind off three, k2) repeat until last stitch, k1 98 (original cast on ) - 2 (beginning and ending stitch) = 96 96 divided by 6 stitches per repeat = 16 16 x ...
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jessthekat replied 4 weeks ago
Perfect! That makes sense now... Thanks x
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Too few stitches! HELP!
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Perfect! That makes sense now... Thanks x
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HOw many stitches are you using per repeat of the (bind off 3, k2). I bet you use 5, which was what I would have used, but to make this work you need to use six per repeat. I would have written the first row as: k1 (k1, bind off three, k2) repeat until last stitch, k1 98 (original cast on ) - 2 (beginning and ending stitch) = 96 96 divided by 6 stitches per repeat = 16 16 x 3 stitches bound off per repeat = 48 98 - 48 = 50 which is what you...

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