u/naborisu

Using fingering weight yarn with 56 sts on US 2 9 inch circular needles. No matter how many times I cast on and redo the foundation row I get a bunch of messy, twisted stitches that I can barely work my needle into. Should I go up a needle size if it’s a matter of tension? Just feeling kind of frustrated 💔

Edit: Forgot to specify that I did a long tail cast on.

Edit 2: I figured out what went wrong !! after taking some time to cast on again and watching some videos on how to purl, realized I was purling incorrectly. I was wrapping the yarn around the needle from the underside, not over. My stitches are sitting much neater on the needle now and I can actually work into them just fine. I read everyone’s comments and took good advice from some of you 🩷✨ Thank you

Have redone this row and the rows before about 4 or 5 times over the past week and have given myself a headache over it. The diamond shape looks fine until row 14 where I feel the stitch placement gets all out of line and I run out of stitches to crochet into during the last 1dc in next 6sts of row 14. Like girl I just wanna be done with this. It’s been 3 weeks :,) it would be hilarious if I’ve been looking at this for way too long and there’s actually nothing wrong with it but I’m convinced there’s something wrong, lol

Link to video and other half of pattern in video description here thank you so much <3