Stitching up a Biscornu with uneven sides

[CindyLou]

I'm stitching up a biscornu, the first one I've done, and it has 65 back stitch edges each side. I just tried to match it up with one corner to the middle on another side.

I went from on the RIGHT piece, one stitch to the left of a corner. And on the LEFT piece the middle stitch, the 33rd stitch (middle of 65).

But when I got to a corner it was out! Does anyone know which stitches I need to be going through to start and line it up?

Thanks!

[Ruthi]

Now that took me some time to work out!

I suspect you are putting in an extra stitch at the corner.

You have two lots of 33 stitches with one in between which lines up with the corner. Don't actually stitch into the middle stitch of the long side, leave it free and it should bend around corner IYSWIM.

I have worked this out mathematically rather than tried it. But I am pretty sure that is how it goes if you have an uneven number of stitches. I just looked at a couple of mybiscornu charts and they both have an even number of stitches along each edge which gets around the problem.

[cairee]

Im going to agree with Ruthi, the 33rd stitch is a corner, and so unstitched. so you would stitch the one left of the corner to stitch 32 on the other piece.