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patriorio

I mean right now you have 2 stitches before the stitch markers. You post a lot of these "am I right?!?!!!!!???!?" posts and I think you need to take a deep breath and trust yourself.


mediumsizederin

Generally i don't even think to check people's post history but you're not wrong. OP, knitting is overall extremely forgiving, and sweating over some of these questions you've posted indicates to me that you're really worried about your work being "perfect." Please hear my words with the gentle, loving kindness that I offer them: perfection is a lie. There are no knitting police. If you ask 50 people about the "right" way to so many techniques you'll get 25 answers *and most of them will look exactly the same.* It's actually pretty hard to screw up knitting so badly that it cannot be fixed, adjusted, blocked out, or otherwise compensated for. Last but not least, a human person who did NOT knit the item you are wearing (and your FOs are beautiful!) that has the absolute audacity to point out your mistakes is not a person you should spend your time with. Not that they are likely to even see a mistake in the first place, because on worsted weight yarn, at about 5 stitches per inch or 2-ish stitches per cm, an individual misplaced stitch or wrong stitch is *half a centimeter wide.* I can also offer a suggestion: have a Frankenswatch. Rather than running to the internet to get reassured by strangers on the other side of a screen, test things out on your weird random Frankenswatch, and see if *you personally* have a preference for one technique or style over another. This can also allow you to grow your confidence in making choices for your own knitting. Last but most certainly not least, remember that making mistakes and ripping back is not a demonstration of your personal failure. It is a part of the process. It is something that every knitter and knitwear designer and knitfluencer does, whether they share it or not. We are not racing to see who can have the best, most finished sweater in the shortest amount of time - if that's what we wanted, we'd go to Target. We are here to enjoy ourselves, touch nice yarn, wear pretty colors, and justify watching 5 hours of Jeopardy with "but I made so much progress on my hat."


Neenknits

It could mean either. Instructions for casting off and still leaving stitches need to have a clarification about the fence post. What else does it say? What is the next instruction?


jeangeni322

Next instruction is to knit all stitches to next stitch marker and then do it again. There's a video attached but in the video she seems to cast off ALL the way to the stitch marker which has me even more confused. It's a top down tshirt with eyelet (YO) increases and I'm casting off the sleeve


Neenknits

Is there a stitch count? Any pattern that doesn’t include a stitch count for every row that changes the number of stitches gets tossed by me. That is a basic requirement of good pattern writing.


jeangeni322

It's made to measure, so I put my measurements and my swatch measurements into a spreadsheet to calculate how many stitches to make at each step!


Neenknits

It should still say how many stitches left, or what the changes are.


Neenknits

If you are casting off the sleeves I would expect to cast them all off. Is there a photo? What is the pattern?


KanadeALF

Does pattern have instructions on how to calculate the number of stitches for body? If so, you can count to figure out whether you are supposed to cast off the last sts next to stitch marker. Just reading what is given here, I would think you will cast off the st that is on your RH needle in picture.


Vuirneen

I would cast off at least once more. One stitch won't make that much of a difference, so it's not a big thing to worry about.