Knitting: How does drop stitch edging hide color changes in a striped scarf?

There will be one line of a different color—in Silk Garden, it will probably be less noticeable over the whole scarf, but it will still be there. It really can’t be otherwise, because the yarn has to get there.

Slipping the first and last stitch of the second row will make the edges neater, but won’t do much to hide color changes. What it will do is make the edge stitches twice the height of the non-edge stitches, which will make the non-working yarn much less obvious.

Now, there’s a difference between the instructions and what you say you’re doing – Brooklyntweed says to slip the first and the last stitches of the second row of that color, but in what you say you’re doing, you say you knit the last stitch. This will make a difference, and it’s probably enough to account for the difference you’re seeing. What you should see on the edges is one stitch the height of two rows, alternating between stitches of each color. If what you say you’re doing is accurate, what you’re probably seeing is two stitches, one the height of each row, with the yarn of the other color running alongside them.

How am I supposed to slip every stich on the edge? There would be no edge? I would be just carrying one single loop all the way down the scarf if I never did the knit—wouldn’t I?

Okay, what I’ve been doing is exactly what she does in this video. So, what does that mean?

What mine looks like each stitch of my edge is the same size as two stitches of the interior of the scarf. I’m not sure if that’s the same as what you’re saying or not.

You’re right, slipping every edge stitch would mean you’d have one single loop running the length of the scarf. But you don’t slip every stitch on the edge – you only slip the first and last stitches on the edge of the second row.

So, if you cast on 31 stitches as Brooklyntweed does, you’d be working the pattern like this:

1. (k1, p1) 15 times, k1
2. sl 1 pwise, (k1, p1) 14 times, k1, sl 1 pwise

Then you’d change colors and work those two rows in the second color.

And yes, the edge stitches should be twice as tall as the interior stitches.

@La_chica_gomela, I found this video with a half twist stitch, that’s a whole lot easier to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjMcVXXf9ss

Okay! thank you! I think I got it now. It looks right, now!

One other question (sorry!) She makes it sound like you could do this using any number of rows for each color block, but when I tried four, it didn’t work out. It was yesterday, and I already forgot what the problem was, I think it was just that if I didn’t switch colors after two, then the string that I’m carrying along would hang out, like before. Does that make any sense to you? Any advice for doing a different number of rows?

Thanks again!

I tried carrying it up with the half twist, and it showed a little, but I think it will straighten out with blocking the finished piece.