Figured out the kitchner.. new pic

[*~*SewHappyNow*~*]

Please post it again *plead*

I have been trying to figure this thing out for about 2 hours and its making no sense... I need to see someone actually do it, y'know?

[twouglyducks]

http://knittingatknoon.com/kitchener.mpg
kitchener.mpg (video/mpeg Object)

[*~*SewHappyNow*~*]

thanks!

well, I did my best and it looks like crap LOL! aw well... who knows what the hell I am doing wrong...

[pamelamama]

post a pic, we can troubleshoot?

[linnea]

Wow, thanks for that link! That actually looks useful. I'm lefthanded and knit lefty... and I've been having a lot of trouble understanding written Kitchener directions. This video should help me "transpose" it mentally/visually.

[*~*SewHappyNow*~*]

Ok here it is... I did it exactly like the video clip (I think), but it almost looks purled rather than knit, doesn't it? As well as a horrible mess *sigh*

Can I even rip it out? I am afraid I'd mess it up even worse if I try to rip it out.

grafted seam

[pamelamama]

that baby's gotta come out
looks like you inned when you shoulda outted.

[LuvMy2Kidz]

My mantra, knit purl purl knit, knit purl purl knit.

To start you do a purl stitch in the stitch on the needle closest to you, leave it on the needle! do a knit stitch in the first stitch on the back needle...leave it on the needle.

Now, do a knit stitch in the first stitch on the front needle(closest to you) slide that stitch off the needle...purl the next stitch on that SAME needle, leave it on the needle.

Do the opposite on the back row. Purl the first stitch, remove it from the needle. Knit the second stitch and leave it on the needle.

repeat repeat repeat until you're out of stitches LOL

[Alison]

I always do this when grafting:

http://www.tradewindknits.com/tbsoctoe.html

I know that grafting a soaker isn't a tube like a sock toe, but you can pretend. And you have the waste yarn to follow so that you know where you should be going. And you don't have needles in the way either, this grafting happens off the needles. I find doing this I don't pull too tight, which is so easy to do. I'd never made a nice neat graft, until I tried this way, and it practically disappeared into the knitting. Which is what you want it to do, right?

alison

[Alison]

[drea2447]

The first time I tried to graft the crotch of a soaker I did the same thing. It looked like a garter stitch. I had forgot to "set it up" before. I began. Make sure that you are first going into the first stitch on the front needle as if to purl. Don't drop it off the needle. Then keeping your needle and working yarn under your knitting needles go through the first stitch on the back needle as if to knit. Don't drop off the knitting needle. It is now "set up" and you are ready to begin. Go through the first stitch on the front needle as if to knit and drop it off, go through second stitch on first needle as if to purl leave it there. Proceed to back needle and purl, drop it off, knit leave it on. And remember that you are always passing your working needle and yarn under your knitting needles.

Hope that helps.

Andrea

[triciarn]

Here is another place for Kitchner Stitch. It has great pictures.
Kitchner Stitch


Tricia

[*~*SewHappyNow*~*]

I went to a LYS and they helped me figure this out. Once I knew just where to start and how to work the yarn under the needles it was easy

Fixed kitchner stitch

[mamaofthreeboys]

YAY! Karen

I'm going to my LYS on Sunday to have them help me learn the kitchener stitch too