Please note that the pattern parts for ‘Where’s My Cow?’ have now been deleted from my website. The full pattern will shortly be available to purchase.
That’s a very different kitchener chant eh?
That’s because this week we are grafting moss/seed stitch. I much prefer kitchener style grafts to any other grafting method (i.e. methods with the stitches removed from the needles before grafting) so I have instructed the grafts in Where’s My Cow in kitchener style. Luckily it isn’t necessary to understand the method to be able to do it, so you can skip this explanation if you want and just go get the pattern!
The grafts in this weeks pattern are not perfect because it isn’t possible to join moss stitch invisibly unless you are joining a base row (i.e. at the cast-on) to a top row. In that case the purl bumps would all run in the same direction, whereas in Where’s My Cow the purl bumps from the different bands point towards each other, like this:
So the aim of the grafting instructions in this week’s pattern is to join the bands in a harmonious way.
While ordinary kitchener stitch creates a stocking stitch/stockinette line of knitting, the graft I have instructed alternates half knits and half purls. If you look carefully at moss stitch you’ll see that this is how the yarn behaves in the stitches, in alternate rows one half of each stitch has a purl bump, and the other half of each stitch is a flat knitwise stitch. The graft I’ve instructed creates the same effect.
Good luck with it! :0)
This week’s pattern portion knitted up:
