Knitting Help!

mountainofdebt

I'm doing a charity event next year so need to raise some funds and oneof the ideas I had was to make/sell these http://www.jeangreenhowe.com/Images/Novelty_Eggs.pdf

anyway as you know from previous threads I've knitted before but not for a long time.

Having a look through the pattern it seems simply enough but I have a couple of questions;

1) when I make a stitch I take it its the piece of wool that (if i pulled the needles apart) would be stretched (if that makes ANY sense)

2) by b&t do they mean I leave a long piece of wool and then (somehow) thread that wool through the remaining stitches (presumably a needle would be useful? but what do I do then lol??

3)how do I knit through the two loops of each stitch?

Did I say this was easy - any help would be appreciated though

loobyloucreations

hi okay for
1. yes if you pull your knitting "apart" you make your one by picking up the horizontal piece of yarn that is there and then you knit into it, if you go on youtube and type m1 knitting you can watch a vid a few times to see it




2. you need to cut off your yarn cut quite a bit when you get to the last row, leave all stitches on the knitting needle, then get your sewing needle and thread through each stitch that you have on your needle. So you are transferring your knitting onto the yarn you are cutting off. So when you pull your sewing needle through all the knitted stitches it should pull tight together.
3. you just knit normally but put your knitting needle through 2 loop instead of one


I hope that makes some sense to you

glynisrose

PERSONALLY I would knit into the front and back of the stitch to increase, its much neater!!

loobyloucreations

glynisrose wrote: »

PERSONALLY I would knit into the front and back of the stitch to increase, its much neater!!

I was going to suggest that as then you do not get the holes either that I do not like when making up, however I did not want to confuse the situation, I also find knitting into the front and back a lot easier

mountainofdebt

thanks guys for your help - another question though ....if I make a stitch using the back and front method does it matter which I do first?

mountainofdebt

oops and another one (sorry!) when you say you knit through 2 loops what are they ? I can only find videos of knitting through the back of the stitch where one loop (on the lt hand needle) is concerned

loobyloucreations

knit in the front and back you will def be better off going onto youtube to look at that, I just typed up and explanation but It's easier to see it being done.


for the K2tog part normally when you do a knit stitch you just put your needle through one stitch here you will put your needle through the next 2 stitches that are available and then you just knit as you would normally.

loobyloucreations

I wish I could post you the videos that are really good but I am not allowed to post links yet

mountainofdebt

thanks Loopy but the bit that is really confusing me is this bit:

K23 through back of the two loops on each stitch k last stitch through front of the two loops.

Now having a looking at youtube I can only find videos of where the rt hand needle is inserted through the back of the stitch and then knitted - I can't find any video showing where its knitted through two loops.

So do you reckon you just knit in the back of the stitch for the first 23 and knit as you would normally for the last stitch and the term two loops is just there to confuse me - in which case it succeeded! ( I would add that I've done the sums and this isn't a way of decreasing the number of stitches)

glynisrose

No, its knitting two stitches together to reduce, just knit two together.

loobyloucreations

i think it is this part of the pattern


K23 sts through the back of the two loops on each stitch, k last st through the front on the 2 loops


it kind of confused me too I have never seen this, so I am assuming its just decreasing but knitting through the back rather than the front?
As the last part is just the way I normally decrease