I’m stuck on a pattern. I’m working Daisy for a friend’s upcoming baby and have hit a snag in my understanding of the pattern.
It’s a raglan cardigan and I’ve knit it successfully up until the neck shaping on the second (left) front side, where the pattern directs me to:
“Work neck shaping to match right front, reversing all shaping.”
The right front neck shaping directs me to:
Row 1:BO 6 sts, k to last 3 sts, k2tog, k1.
Row 2 [and all wrong side rows]: Purl.
Row 3: BO 2 sts, k to last 3 sts, k2tog, k1.
Row 5: BO 1 st, k to last 3 sts, k2tog, k1.
Continue purling WS rows, and repeat Row 5 1[ 2, 3] times– 4 sts remain [all sizes].
Next row: K1, k2tog, k1.
Next row: Purl.
Next row: Sl 1, k2tog, psso, fasten off.
Since I want to reverse that, I imagined what I should knit should be something like:
Row 1: K1, ssk, k to last 6 stitches, bind off last six stitches. etc. etc.
But that doesn’t work because then I have knitted stitches, a gap of six bound off stitches and then one final stitch way over at the left end on the button band. Which is clearly wrong.
So should I instead knit across a row and start my work on the wrong side and reverse all the decreases to the purl side? That would allow me to bind off the stitches along the button band first and continue increasing up to the shoulder seam on the other side.
And if so, do I want to purl 2 stitches together to get what should be a left-leaning decrease on the right side of the garment?
Or is there some other way that I’m not seeing? I’ve googled the question and no one else seems to have had difficulty understanding this part of the pattern but me.
Can anyone help?
(If not, I’ll wait for Stephanie to submit her book proposal before I harass her about what she meant in her pattern, herself.)
Gramma suggests purling where the pattern says knit…knit where it says purl…then look at it and see how it looks. If she was doing it she would know for sure, but trying to visualize is harder.
But, Gramma says you can’t bind off at the end of a row.
I found weaving to be hard on my back, so I have to learn when to give it a rest. Can’t obsess as I usually do!!
Comment by mum 09.25.06 @ 2:14 pmI would do all of the decreases on the knit side – with the ssk you can have a nice matched set. Just do the bind off on the next purl row (after your first knit-row decrease). It means that the one side of the cardigan is 1 row longer than the other side, but you can only bind off at the beginning of the row, so I think that’s how it has to be…
Comment by Sarah 09.25.06 @ 5:36 pmThank you for your nice comment on my quilt!
Sarah is right, you can only b.o. at the beginning of a row. That means:
row 1: k1, ssk, knit across to the end
Row 2: (wrong side) b.o. 6, purl across to the end
row 3: k1, ssk, knit across to the end
row 4: b.o. 2, purl to the end
etc.
I hope this helps. I am writing this quickly before I load the kids in the car to drive to school, so I hope it makes sense. E-mail me if you have any more questions (emily at emilyquilts dot com) Good luck!
Em