Garter stitch is without a doubt the easiest knitting stitch there is. There is no purling involved, you knit both the front and back in the knit-stitch! This makes for an interesting horizontal ribbing pattern. Can you believe that I never really used the garter stitch in a project?? I must admit that at first, I didn’t really like the stitch pattern. Maybe because I knew it was the easiest one. I’ve always been a perfectionist, and have tried my hardest at doing the most challenging things, whatever they are. I knit my first scarf using the Raspberry stitch, which is not very suitable for beginners actually! Anyhow, over past few months I’ve come to appreciate garter stitch, and I cast on my first project using it! (If you’re curious, click here!) It’s amazing how it lays flat without any edges or blocking. We all know the drama of curling stockinette stitch, right? During this project I wondered how I should actually count the rows. Do you just count the lumps or the parts in between as well? That’s what I’m going to tell you!
It was actually pretty easy to find out. I placed a stitch marker in the row I was working on, and I knitted 4 more rows. After that, I checked if there were 4 or 2 ribbed rows (lumpy rows). And voilà, just like that I knew that you have to count both the lumps (blue arrow) and the parts in between (pink arrow). The easiest way to count is to count in steps of two, so at every ribbed row. I’m actually a bit ashamed that I have knit for four years now and only found out about this last week, but hey! It is never too late to learn new things.
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