Yarn Overs: You're Doing it Wrong

[gnomi]

(warning: knitting nattering ahead)

(For the non-knitters: The following is "Blah blah blah needles blah blah blah yarn blah blah.")

So, I'm working on this pattern that should be relatively easy. It's got yarn overs before and after a p4 section, which, OK. No problem. But, problem. The pattern line in question is:

K2, ssk, yo, p4, yo, k2tog, k2.

The first yo looks fine. The second yo, when I do the next row (p4, k4, p4), looks tiny-tiny while the first yo looks like a normal yo.

So, my questions:

1. What am I doing wrong when I do the yo that it comes out so tiny (because I'm starting from purling, I bring the yarn to the back, up and over the needle, and then back to the back)?

2. Is it cheating to move the yos over one each, so it's k2, yo, ssk, p4, k2tog, yo, k2? It's a small panel of 12 stitches in the center of a 36-stitch row, basically, and from an aesthetics perspective I don't think it'll make a gigantic difference.

Nrrrgh!

Comments

[byrne.livejournal.com]

Dude -- so true. And if one method fails there's, like, nineteen people waiting to show you another way!