Hello! I just started the stripe overload cardi by spektakelstrik and have a question.

When I do the first row after the Italian cast on, should I be slipping the purls and knitting the knits from the cast on or the opposite? Since there’s an odd number of stitches cast on, is the first sl 1 wyif on a knit cast on and then the k1 is on a purl cast on? I hope that makes sense! The Italian cast on has bumps that I assume are purl bumps so that’s what I mean by pearl cast on. I would appreciate any help so I can get off to a good start. Thank you!

I'm knitting my first sweater and I'm a bit confused about the pattern

If I knit to the end of the row how do I then put the stitches on a holder? Am I misunderstanding something?

Hello, my husband wants me to make him a hat, and he found some yarn, but I only have 80 g of it. The composition is 100% merino wool, and the gauge is 26 stitches = 10 cm. His head circumference is around 56 cm. Will this be enough for a beanie with no folds or anything? Thanks

As title says.. this is my first sweater (the step by step one by Florence Miller) and while I can read most of my knitting by now, I can’t for the life of me find the extra increase stitch I’ve made on this side of the raglan! 😩

It’s between the last raglan pair of markers and the BOR (so left side on the photo). I’m on my 10th round of raglan increases, excluding the first 4 I’ve done working my GSR.

Can someone please help me out?

(Sorry if photo ugly, I over saturated it a little to see the stitches clearly)

I bought a knitted sweater the body fit is perfect but the sleeves are soo tight!! Any ideas on how to stretch it? I don't know anything about knitting i bought it from a thrift shop

Hi, I’m currently knitting my first ever jumper following the pattern “Step By Step Sweater” by Forence and I noticed that for the smaller size, it tells you to K6 but for size 4, it only says K2 and I’m confused why that is?

Appreciate any help!

Thank you

preferably the yarn would be an aran weight and have some sort of soft element (e.g., a mohair or alpaca) with as little acrylic as possible. thanks !

Hey, I bought 100% wool for felted slippers as Christmas presents for my family. I didn't read that it was super washed and just had seen it was 100% wool so, it should be feltebal. Am I wrong and now have wool that I cannot use for that?

Hello! Pretty new to knitting - working a blanket up in the round, 202 stitches total. I am on the fourth row. I counted and I dropped 5 stitches here - and it looks like all 4 rows for those stitches have completed unraveled. Is this fixable ? Any suggestions? Thank you !

Knitting a sweater

Pattern says the following;

Shape Shoulders: Bind off 6 sts at beginning of the next 2 rows, then 7 sts at beginning of the next 4 rows. Slip remaining 41 sts to holder for back neck.

On the final row of bind off, do I bind off 7 and then put all the stitches on a holder?

Or do I bind off 7, Knit to the end of the row and then but the remaining stitches on a holder

I'm a rather inexperienced knitter, and I'm having a lot of trouble interpreting this pattern. I hope someone here can help me. This is where it's got me stumped:

Decrease (as before) at armhole edge on next and following 4th rows until 34 sts remain, then on alternate rows until 27 sts remain
Work 1 row even

Shape neck: Next row: K1, sl1, K1, psso, pattern to last 9 sts. Turn. Leave these 9 sts on a stitch holder.

Decrease (at armhole edge as before) at each end of needle on alternate rows until 5 sts remain, then at armhole edge only on alternate rows until 2 sts remain.
Next Row: P1 K1. Turn, K2tog. Fasten off.

I worked the first part, decreasing at the beginning of alternate rows on the knit side. I assume Work 1 row even means to work another row of pattern on the purl side. Is this correct? I hope so because that's what I did. I then worked the first row of the Shape neck directions on the knit side, leaving the last 9 sts on a stitch holder as directed. Now is when it gets really confusing to me. It doesn't say to work another row of pattern on the purl side before decreasing on alternate rows. All along I've been decreasing on alternate knit side rows, and it doesn't seem right to start decreasing on purl side rows now unless Turn means do another row of pattern. Does it? Next it says to decrease at armhole edge as before, but in the same sentence it says on each end of needle. Which is it? And how exactly would I decrease on the non-armhole edge? This is all very confusing to me. I sure hope someone can make sense out of all this.

TL;DR Can't get exact armhole length due to row gauge, is it better be under by a sixth or over by a sixth.

I'm following a pattern for a sweater, my row gauge is slightly off. But so far have been able to adjust it fine and most of it says to knit to a specific length rather than number of rows.

However I'm currently working the armholes and it says to work until armholes measure 9.5" ending on WS row.

My gauge is 6 rows to an inch, so if I knit exactly 9 and a half, I would end on a RS row.

I'm don't know whether to knit one row less, which would be 9 and a third inches

Or knit one row more which would be 9 and 2 thirds inches

Hello! I’m working on my first ever knitting project and I’m a little stumped on how to move forward. At the end of my row, a couple of stitches fell off my needle and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fix it with it being on the edge. Any advice or places I should go for help on this? Thank you!!

I’ve never had this happen before. In the transition from the pattern to K1tbl, P1, there are holes in between the stockinette and the purl. Full disclosure this is with the same size needle as the stockinette, but it also happened when I tried the first time with smaller needles. I thought maybe the transition from size 6 to size 2.5 was too much so tried with the 6es. Would twisting the purl on the first row help?

Pattern is Taipei Vest by Mochiknits, and her version does not seem to have these holes!

I just finished knitting my first sweater, a top down raglan as basic as it can get. Now i want to try knitting a bottom up raglan, adding (learning to do) short rows for the neck and also add armhole shaping. I would like to do this without a pattern, do you have any suggestions for constructing this freehand? Or some usefull tutorials? Thanks!

I keep making this mistake, and it looks a bit different from the tutorials I’ve seen. I’m not really sure how to pick it up-any advice? (Maybe this photo is unclear?)

I'm knitting the Dagmar jacket by petite knit I have a problem , i picked up the sts around the sleeve started knitting but when I reached the last 22 STS the pattern says to moss stitch across the last 22 sts of the round (begin with a purl (knit) purl (knit) purl (knit) knit (knit) knit (knit) stitch). What is the point of doing that will it ruin the moss pattern? and there are only 10 STS it the instruction how should I continue the 12 STS

I’m looking for a machine washable, worsted weight, affordable yarn that comes in a lot of colors. Ideally I’d like a wool or wool blend and am willing to pay more than super cheap acrylic yarns, but would love to keep it under $10 a skein.

My current project is some faire isle stockings, but I would like to be able to build up a little library of colors for all the random little worsted projects that come my way.

Okay so I’m a complete beginner to knitting. I made a swatch and everywhere I look online, the knit stitch looks like Vs but my swatch it looks like a purl stitch and it’s on both sides. I’ve read that on one side it should be knit and one side should be purl but mines not like that. Why is it doing this?

Hi! I need a little help for german short rows. I’m knitting a sweater that uses german short rows, but I don’t understand the instructions. This is my second sweater.

It’s this pattern https://www.un-told.no/products/more-mohair-sweater-english

I’m about to knit yoke after the neckline with circular needle and and the pattern says:

1st row (rs): Knit right back piece to 1st stm, * M1R, slip stm, knit 2 raglan-sts, slip stm, M1L *, knit to next stm, repeat from * to *. K1 front piece st, 1 turning-st, turn.

2nd row (ws): Purl all sts to round’s beginning.

3rd row (ws): Purl left back piece to 1st stm, * M1R, slip stm , p 2 raglan-st, slip stm, M1L *, purl to next stm, repeat from * to *. P1 front piece st, 1 turning-st, turn and knit to round’s beginning.

4th row (rs): Knit to round’s beginning.

I have watched a few videos for German short rows, but most of the examples are for normal needles… Especially I don’t understand what is ‘knit right back piece’ and ‘purl left back piece’. Am I supposed to knit from left to right all the way?

Any tips, or videos would be helpful 🙏 Thanks!