Suppose I want to graft the Drooping Elm Leaf stitch pattern at rows 9 and 10, where 10 has been slightly modified to fit symmetrically between the two 9's.
[8] -------*---*---- [9] -O-----O\-\*/-O- [10] ----*------*---- [10] } graft creates these -O-/*\-\O-----O- [9] } ----*---*------- [8]
The rightmost purl in row 10 will line up smoothly with the purls above it, but the left one will not line up with those below it because of the jog between the two grafted rows. I want to shift that purl a half-stitch to the right, by making it and its neighbor into "impossible" knit/purl hybrids. So I specify '?' for those two stitches, and the program gives me the following.
- - - - ? ? - - - - - * - - - -
<-- |p k|p k|p k|p k|? ?|? ?|p k|p k|p k|p k|p k|k p|p k|p k|p k|p k|#
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /
#|k p|# #|k p|K P|p k|K~P|k p|K~P|# #|k p|k p|k p|k p|k p|# #|k p| <<<
- O - / * \ - \ O - - - - - O -
I can then copy and edit that output manually, creating stockinette with the outer halves of those stitches, and a pseudo-purl with the two inner halves.
- - - - ! ! - - - - - * - - - -
<-- |p k|p k|p k|p k|p p|k k|p k|p k|p k|p k|p k|k p|p k|p k|p k|p k|#
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /
#|k p|# #|k p|K P|p k|K~P|k p|K~P|# #|k p|k p|k p|k p|k p|# #|k p| <<<
- O - / * \ - \ O - - - - - O -
There still must be a jog in that column, but now it has been pushed upward to occur between the pseudo-purl and the knit stitch above, where it is much less prominent.
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