And so my May #pennydreadfulkal intensive begins! First up, figuring out how to count the transition from ribbing to moss stitch.

As you may remember from last month, I ripped back because I counted incorrectly. I realized this happened for a number of reasons:

1. I was trying to count the selvedge and it wasn’t totally reliable- if you made a mistake and purled one, it also makes it confusing.
2. When I counted one of the center sections, I didn’t always remember that some of the knit stitches were k2tog in the first row, which I think confused me on which row to start counting.

Reading your knitting is a skill that is constantly lauded by talented knitters as something you need to understand, but it’s not something that comes easily without getting in the weeds with it (for me anyway.)

So I started the second front panel of the cardigan and took photos of every row, to make sure I really understood how the moss stitch worked and how the ribbing to moss stitch transition worked. The pink yarn was threaded through on the last row of ribbed stitches.

The thing that truly makes counting your rows easier, is spreading them out. Pulling the stitches horizontally, helped to see the stitches so much better!

I also updated row 19 in this post of the first front panel to make sure the repeats made sense.

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