I’m so delighted, I’m giddy. I’ve just learned two ways to make what appears to be a horizontal line of knit stitches:
Dragoncrafter’s way ( by way of Sharon Winsauer who attributes it to Margaret Stove. In her book, Margaret Stove says it is “attributed to the late Trude Guermonprez”)
Which was amplified by Chiyo_no_Suro into multiple rows.
There is another way, much looser method, mentioned by Nancy Bush in Fox Faces Socks, then used in Treads, and a video (in German) is here.
I think I might be able to use this to close a 1 stitch cable ring more smoothly than I’ve been able to do so far – the usual BGW method of closing a ring doesn’t work for something that small, they melt into the purl background.
Whoa! I just knit stockinette stitch! But I’m happy for you! =)
There is nothing wrong with stocking stitch!
In fact; though I like complexity; it’s hard to make elegant designs when surface ornament isn’t necessarily integral to the whole – I’m working on it, but I think I’m addicted to over complication. We’ll see if anyone ever buys my patterns…once I quit Charles Babbaging them.