# K1- f/b \[knitting help\]

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**Created:** [June 12, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/k1-f-b-knitting-help/624875 "2012-06-12T03:58:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vegas\_Ver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Vegas\_Ver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vegas_Ver)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/k1-f-b-knitting-help/624875/1 "2012-06-12T03:58:04Z")

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Hi,

I have instructions for a yarn necklace by Tahki Stacy Charles.

the instructions say k1 - f/b Knit 1 front and back (inc) ok, - knit next st. then kni it tbl.

Cast on 3

first row:

K1-f/b, yo k2 - 5 sts - I don’t undertand. I knit through the fron and back loop, so I have 2 sts on right needle and 2 on left… I knit the next st. and then have 3 on the right and one on the left. How do I then yo, and knit 2 when I only have one left on the left? I am going crazy.

If anyone can HELP i would be sooooo appreciative

Vegas Ver

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/k1-f-b-knitting-help/624875/2 "2012-06-12T03:59:43Z")

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Moving to Cafe Society from ATMB and expanding thread title. Welcome to the board, **Vegas Ver**.

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**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/k1-f-b-knitting-help/624875/3 "2012-06-12T05:05:34Z")

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Ok…

So you have 3 stitches total that you cast on.

Stitch 1, knit front and back = 2 stitches on right needle

YO, wrap the yarn around the right needle = 3 stitches on right needle

Knit the next stitch = 4 stitches on right needle

Knit the last stitch = 5 stitches on right needle

You created one extra stitch with the K f/b, and one stitch with the yarn over. For a total of 5 stitches.  
It seems like, from what you wrote, that you are knitting the 2 second stitch before doing your yarn over.

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**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/k1-f-b-knitting-help/624875/4 "2012-06-12T08:48:16Z")

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Yes, it’s knit the first stitch in the front and back, not the first stitch\* then\* front and back.

Tricky, reminds me of a call I made to my mother, wailing over a pattern we’d both crocheted many times several years earlier, I’d chained and joined and chained and joined and now the pattern said “two loops” - Where were the two loops? What the hell was I supposed to do with them when I found them?

Mum told me to look at the work I’d done, what did it look like? A figure 8? Perfect. What shapes would you use to make a figure 8?

Uh… two loops.:smack: