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[alexseanchai]

Knitting: I cast on twenty-four stitches. Why are there now, about six rows later, twenty-nine loops on my needle?

Crocheting: I swear there were twenty-eight stitches in the last row. How come there's twenty-six in this row?

(I think I may be confusing my poor brain trying to learn two fiber arts at once.)

Comments

[executrix]

I think it's because it's not always clear what constitutes a stitch! And some kinds of yarn are very prone to splitting, so it's easy to "create" an extra stitch.

[alexseanchai]

That makes sense.

[hagsrus]

Wormhole between crochet and knitting?

[alexseanchai]

Heh, maybe.

[melannen]

If I'm doing any kind of pattern other than plain knit/crochet, I have a constant issue with accidentally adding and/or removing stitches at the end of every row.

[alexseanchai]

Nod.

[shanaqui]

It's difficult at first -- it took me a while to learn how to differentiate crochet stitches, and I still count after each row juuust to make sure.

[alexseanchai]

Nodnod.

[evil_plotbunny]

You'll also want to be careful when knitting not to wrap the yarn over the needle - that creates an extra stitch.

[alexseanchai]

Nod. That might do it. I know I found a spot where I knitted two together, or at least I think that's the term for what I did. Good thing it's a scarf, not a thing where width matters, and possibly also a thing where I'm ripping it all out once I'm done making it because it's just a practice piece. (Possibly a gift for my mother. Depends how she feels about wearing a baby's-first-knitting-project.)

[evil_plotbunny]

The more you do the better you'll get at it.

That doesn't mean that I haven't accidentally done both things recently and I've been knitting for years. Mostly, though, I do patterns where it's evident on the next row what's happened and I fix it there.

You can always knit two together or add an extra stitch to even out the count. Eventually, you'll learn to do these things deliberately to make patterns. ;)

[alexseanchai]

Nod!