Q&A for How to Knit the Moss or Seed Stitch

It's basically an alternating knit-purl pattern. If you line up all your knits and purls, it turns into ribbing, but if you alternate them on the rows, it turns into the seed stitch. The trick is when you get to the end of the row and you turn the piece over, if you're seeing a purl stitch, then you'll start with a knit stitch, and vice versa.

Increase on the end of rows, and keep that increase in mind when you start the next row.

Always have a slide-on row counter at the end of your needle, and alter the row count on each wrong-side row, i.e. every second row. To check the number of rows, count those in twos as well. Count a vertical row of purl stitches from start to finish, each purl is another "2".

Use a crochet hook that makes about the same size stitch as the rest of the knitted stitches and pick up the lower loop(s), as much as you need to while still trying to keep the work as smooth as possible to possibly avoid any bulking-up.

The pattern uses an even number of stitches. The first and last stitch will always be different, i.e. one knit and one purl. To do the pattern on an odd number of stitches, you will always have the same stitch at the start and at the end of the row; i.e. if the first stitch is a knit stitch, then the last stitch in the row is also a knit stitch.