HELP! Foundation Row?

[boo1]

I'm looking at a scarf pattern and it has a Foundation Row, then Row 1, then 2, then repeat until you're done.

 

What is a foundation row if it's not Row 1? Nowhere in the pattern do you actually do this row UNLESS it's the first row you stitch but you don't count it as row 1.

 

Can someone please clarify? Thanks!!!

[luvmnms]

What does it tell you to do for the foundation row?

I have always thought the foundation row is the beginning chain.

[newthingcrochet]

There is a way to do a foundation row of whatever stitch you're using without ever making a chain. Here's a place that tells you how. This may be what they are talking about. http://serendipity.gpvm.com/no_chain.html

[boo1]

Foundation row: Skip 4 ch, *(1 cluster, 2 ch, and 1 cluster).....

 

(Right above that, it says chain 35.)

 

So I'm assuming that I chain 35, do the Foundation Row, then Rows 1 and 2 over and over. But if that is correct, why don't they call the Foundation Chain "Row 1" and the others Rows 2 and 3?

 

 

Laura

[RoseRed]

the foundation row is the beginning chain or the double base chain.

[darski]

There is a developing protocol within crochet of working a set-up row or a foundation row. It is unfortunate that they are calling it by a name (foundation row) that is already taken for a specific technique.

 

I am working on a vest pattern now that began with a set-up row but that is how it is labeled so that helps.

[boo1]

I chain the 35, then do the foundation row, then row "1", then 2, etc. ?

[RoseRed]

yup - sounds like you got it.

[sherryzzz]

Is this a mile-a-minute type pattern, where you start from the center and work in rounds out to the edges? If that is the case, then by doing the "foundation row" you are setting up the center round.

[Aggie May]

The call it the foundation row because it is being worked into the CH and so is never repeated.

They could call it Row 1 then Row 2, Row 3. Repeat rows 2 & 3 for the pattern but some just choose to call it the Foundation row.

Have fun.

Colleen:hug