Knit. Tink. Repeat.
You know "knit" but "tink"? Spell tink backwards. Knit. Tink is used to mean "to un-knit", or, to undo the knitting. Most sweaters are made by knitting the back, the front, the sleeves, then sewing them together. This is a top-down raglan, meaning all the parts are knit at the same time, then separated at the underarm. Thus, the neckline needs to be started with the desired size. I was fairly pleased that I had to tink the neckline area only twice. Things were going along swimmingly; i.e., no errors, until the contrast stitches on the body of the sweater. I didn't want to make a sweater that was plain (stockinette stitch). When I saw the sweater in the mag with garter stitch at the neckline and in the body, I knew that was what I wanted to do. The beginning of the sweater (the neckline) of my sweater is worked flat, meaning a row is worked, then turned, then a row is worked, and turned, and so on. The stockinette stitch is ...