On Monday our kitty, Mittens, decided to "visit" class by jumping up on the knitting table. All of my students love that and don't like me to tell Mittens she doesn't belong there...Mittens doesn't like that either!
Yesterday a student was working on a pattern that called for a yarn-over followed by a SKP (slip a stitch, knit the next stitch, pass slipped stitch over the just knitted stitch). To do a yarn-over after a knit stitch, usually you just bring your yarn forward as if you are going to purl and knit the next stitch:
Her pattern read as follows:
K 1, YO (yarn over), SKP
Now, doing an SKP right after a YO can be tricky because the YO likes to “sneak” over the slipped stitch and look like the stitch that you will use to pass over the knitted stitch:
So, you will need to move the yarn-over out of the way and pull the "real" slipped stitch over the knit stitch:
Dear knitters, do watch out for those yarn-overs!
