counting rows

[pcrocker]

I have been having a "discussion" with a friend about counting rows of knitting and I haven't been able to find an answer. Do you count the stitches on the needles as a row or not? I sure hope someone can help!!

[Abby123]

I do. The stitches one the needle have already been worked. So they made a row.

[suzeeq]

Most people don't count the st on the needle though. They've been 'made' but you don't work them till the next row.

[Tinker]

The concensus at the LYS says they are counted. After all, you knit them, it was "work" so they deserve to be counted. :-)
Think of it this way: Suppose you cast on some stitches and then knit a row. Wouldn't that be Row 1? They're still on your needles and your next row would be 2. The first row surely wouldn't be row zero.

[suzeeq]

But the loops from the CO form R 1 when you knit them on that first row. And the ones on the needle made on R 1 form the sts for R 2.

[Sunshine's Mom]

Of course the stitches on the needle are considered a row. If you were knitting off of a chart, that row was part of the chart, therefore you knit a row of the chart - so it counts.

However, some folks consider the cast on row to be row 1 of the pattern, while others don't consider the cast on row as anything other than the cast on and consider the first row worked to be row 1.

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