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Old 07-11-2006, 11:38 PM   #1
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how and where
do you count ridges?

can someone show me on this pic? and is there a RS or WS to garter stitch?



or on this one


i'm supposed to be counting rows and i lost count and the pattern said count rows or ridges...so i was wondering would it be easier to count ridges.



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There's no wrong/right side to garter. They're the same. Every purl-looking row is a ridge. Of if you want to count rows, each purl row is one and the space between is another (it's a knit row but it looks buried between the purls.)
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Old 07-12-2006, 12:04 AM   #3
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Each ridge is made up of 2 rows of knitting.

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Old 07-12-2006, 12:09 AM   #4
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Jan, that's a GREAT illustration. Honestly, it's something I've always wondered too!! I never work in garter stitch now (not if I can help it) so never really have the need to count ridges but I never really knew what that meant either!
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Old 07-12-2006, 02:10 AM   #5
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thanks that helped a lot!!!
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You're welcome. I got the image off off the Lion Brand site...is that bad? :thinking:
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