picked up stitch in K2P2 ribbing

jellofiesta · 02-20-2008, 01:49 AM

Hi everyone--

i keep picking up an extra stitch each row in my K2P2 ribbing--- i don't understand how i keep adding stitches. is this a common problem so that there's something i can watch out for and not do?

i'm supposed to keep 54 sts per row... i find i have 55, so i drop a stitch... then the next row i have 55 again...

any help is appreciated!
thanks!

Jan in CA · 02-20-2008, 07:12 AM

Could you be doing accidental yarn overs? That could happen if you forget to move your yarn back after purling.

There is a sticky thread at the top of the thread list that is called "mysterious extra stitches" that might help, too.

campbellmom549 · 02-20-2008, 07:12 AM

Are you maybe getting your yarn mixed up when switching from front to back and making sort of a yarn over?

jellofiesta · 02-20-2008, 07:41 AM

i guess that's a possibility. i watched the video on the site about ribbing though and THOUGHT that i knew what to do... haha, i guess i could be wrong..

i'll keep an eye out for that.

thank you!

suzeeq · 02-20-2008, 03:41 PM

Since it's only 1 st you're adding each row, could you be knitting into the first st twice? If you finished with a knit st, turn for the next row and the yarn is over the needle, it pulls up the back of the st so it looks like 2, but it's the 2 legs of the previous knit st. Make sure your yarn is pulled out a little to the side before you purl that first st. But if you had been doing this, it wouldn't look like ribbing either...

jellofiesta · 02-20-2008, 11:59 PM

i think you fixed my problem!! thank you!