Knitting help, please
06/18/04 05:56 AM
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Hey ladies,
I know some of you are knitters, so I thought I'd post my question here. I know all the basics, but I am trying to get a little fancier. I just found out I have a NIECE on the way (brother and sister-in-law got very good results from a recent amnio sentisis; healthy baby girl is on the way), so I am knitting a pink blanket, of course. All I know how to do is knit rectangular things, so I've made about a million blankets and scarves in the last year or so. What I'm trying to do is get a ribbed effect, and I only have a vauge idea of how to do that. My late grandma was a master knitter, so my dad was just making noise and saying that I'm supposed to knit one, pearl two, yarn over. My dad has never knit anything in his life, but I figured maybe he knows what he's talking about. Well when I yarn over, I just take the back stitch off the front one, and drop it, like I do when I'm removing the needle from the last row when I'm finished. Well obviously this depletes each row by about a third of the stiches each time, so there must be a step I am missing. Or, I am just totally way off and my dad really doesn't know what he's talking about.
My mom and my other grandmother are on a plane right now so I can't ask them, and I really want to use my free time today to get this blanket started.
Can anyone help, please????
Bevvy, don't you knit?
Thanks girls 
"Auntie Panda"
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Amanda
I live in the Big Apple, but I don't eat the skin
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