YO At the Beginning of the Row?

I haven’t finished anything new this week. I have been working as much as I can on the little cardigan that I featured over the last couple of weeks and am on the home stretch with size two. So, instead of a new design, I thought that I would share with you a pretty technique for finishing a garter edge.

I have a pattern for a shoulder scarf, the Delphinium Shoulder Scarf, that I wrote some time ago that features a really pretty finished edge to the garter lace. It is not the same as the braided edge on my Another Cake Shawl but still very nice and neat looking. This technique can be used on any vertical garter edge and would look lovely on a cardigan front.  The photo tutorial below is included in the pattern.

       

How to make a yarn over at the beginning of a row:

Start with your yarn over instead of under your right hand needle.

Slide your right hand needle through the first two stitches on your left hand needle for knit two together.

Wrap your yarn over top of the right hand needle and around to make a stitch.

Pull the yarn through to complete your knit two together. You can see that the yarn that came over the right hand needle makes a stitch.

Here you can more clearly see that the yarn over, knit two together at the beginning of a row results in two stitches on the right hand needle when you are finished.

Here you see the final result; a pretty loop edge to your garter rows.