Accomplished knitters - HELP!

[NoviceKnitter]

Hello, I'm on the final sleeve of my first ever garment - a Rowan cardi for LO (due in 4 weeks.)

I'm meant to extend by a stitch each end every four rows. I keep getting a glitch because it puts the stitches out of sync if you see what I mean, because the row moves along one stitch leaving a kind of line between it and the last row so they don't quite match. Sorry difficult to describe but if you understand what I mean maybe you can help me know what I'm doing wrong?

Novice by name and nature I don't mind this having a few hallmark glitches, but it's getting ridiculous, and I've already been into John Lewis three times for help!

Thanks in advance...

PS It's the cardi on p72 of Rowan's Classic Babies book 4 - just in case anyone has it...

What do you mean by a 'glitch'. What happened with the first sleeve?
Sorry to be dim...

What I mean is if rows should look like this:

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but occasionally end up like this when I've extended a row

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i.e. so the points of the apex of two stitches should normally go perfectly underneath those in the last row but sometimes don't (difficult to see from this but second row they are slightly out of sync)

Having said that last night after I posted I extended two rows successfully without recurring glitch, so maybe I've cured it myself just by posting on mumsnet! Still don't know what I was doing wrong though.

It could be I was extending row on a knit row and should be a purl row, or could be when I've had to drop a row of stitches due to mistake, I've picked the stitches up in the wrong direction - that probably doesn't make sense either - sorry

oh - my carefully formatted diagram didn't translate when message posted! Darn it.

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maybe that works. see second row is out of sync?

tbh, i'd have to look at it to see what's gone wrong. i'd knit slowly for a bit, when you get to that bit and try to analyse if you're doing anything differently. sorry, can't really help more without actually seeing it.

can you take a photo and put it on your profile?

Thanks Warthog, that's kind. As I said, it seemed to clear up once I'd posted on Mumsnet so I'll persevere and post a photo if problem reccurs. My granny could knit socks by the time she was six so I thought it was in my genes and i'd be a natural!... ah well... nothing like a couple of glitches to make something look genuinely hand made....

I asked at Beatties whether they had the book, but they said, no the nearest Rowan shop was ...John Lewis in Milton Keynes. Too far. So I'm glad it is going better, no doubt it will all come out in the wash. Literally, once you've washed it a couple of times it will look much more even, whatever you've done to it.

It doesn't sound to bad to be honest How are you making the stitch? There are several ways of increasing and maybe if you try more than one way you'll find a way that suits you?