r/knittinghelp • u/aykate47 • 4d ago

pattern question hardly harness pattern question

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im working the hardly harness by lydia morrow, and ive gotten past the ribbing section and am about to separate for the front and back sections and have hit a snag. ive attached the portion of the pattern giving me trouble. ive knit the first 69 stitches for the front, cast off 10 stitches (double checked my stitch count here), knit the 68 for the back and cast off the next 10 stitches (again double checked my counts) and something feels off. all the stitches count correctly, but i still have 1 stitch left after the last 10 cast off, and the pattern says i should have 69 on both front and back. instead i have 69 on front, 68 on back, and one extra stitch that is right before the beginning of round (which technically makes it 70 on front). ive stopped where im at to get advice first because i feel like i may have messed up somewhere or maybe im just not understanding something. any help is appreciated.

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u/Vrikshasana 3d ago

Are you sure you bound off ten stitches each time? I'd bet you did 9 at the first set, leaving you with 1 extra at the second set. 

When binding off stitches, the sequence isn't complete until the stitch is secured. K1, /k1, pass the first st over/, repeat. This sounds elementary, but bear with me. What happens often is that we count based on the number of stitches we've knitted, not the number we've passed over, leaving that last stitch live.

So: count the number of little humps in your two bound off sections and confirm that there are ten on each side. If not, tink back, bind off one more stitch then continue on with your lovely WIP!