Eventually you do get to knit those sts when you turn again. It’s like knitting back and forth and instead of working a short row turn, you catch the long loop or provisional join.
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Nevermind - it’s right! yay!.. I got a point - a messy and hard to see point but a point… I think my brain just assumed it was a typo as slipping is usually left to right needle … I think that must be where the wrong CC spots came in and all the rest… Finally…Thank you (even if just to let me babble til I did it!) If I manage to continue with the chart and actually make a sock I will never do intarsia in the round again! 
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Sounds like you’re making progress! I’m glad you’ve figured it out.
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My problem is that instead of just doing what it says I overthink (assuming things are incorrect/typos if they’re not the norm)… Should learn to just do it as it says FIRST and then see. It seems a loop from 2 needles away was correct too. Thank you for making the effort to help out! 
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It’s true, sometimes just doing exactly what a pattern says is the answer, whether we understand it or not. It’s always a bit confusing doing a new thing or in a different way though, which is one of the attractions of knitting, all those techniques and challenges!
My only other question (which might be obvious) is if the first st on the chart is the one AFTER slipping (ie the last st of the chart is the slipped one) In any other situation I’d think it’s straightforward just follow the chart but I’ve never done this technique.
Good going! I’ve been working on a swatch of the intarsia in the round too. As I mentioned, I need it for a project I’m working. I set up some guides and it works although argyle socks are a whole 'nother thing. (My mother used to knit argyle socks with all those little bobbins hanging off her knitting.)
We’d love to see these socks when you finish!. I’m sure you would too!
She deserves a medal! I just learned of a different argyle pattern where the BOR doesn’t change… I’d still have to do intarsia in the round but that might make a lot less problems. If this doesn’t work out I will switch to that one. Are you using this actual chart? If so, does the chart’s last st of the round represent the slipped one from the beginning?
Nope, nevermind… I’m done… If the red indicates the turns that means I don’t start the chart from the far right but after the red? I just can’t follow. I understand the loops, I don’t get the chart… I’ll just keep adding one on each side of the diamonds until they touch because I just don’t understand where to start the chart since neither side start with MC - which is what I’m on.
The charts start with the CC. The slipped stitch would then be the last stitch of the round. Yes, I’d go with making the diamonds and no worry about the shift in beginning of round so that the first stitch is always cc.
Honestly, there must be an easier way to knit argyle socks. Even with the provisional joins or loops making sense, it’s not an easy pattern
Thank you… I have no issue with the diamond or the loop but row 3 ended where I am supposed to knit with MC and where the red is on the chart is CC so I don’t get it. Maybe I didn’t turn… Oh well, I was doing so well… haha. I am doing the shift but am just increasing one on each side every time and I’ve completely lost track of the chart… I think this is it for me and I will switch to the one suggested where the start doesn’t move because the written instructions and chart seem pretty straightforward,
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Let us know how it goes. This is supposed to be enjoyable too.
Hmm. I don’t think intarsia in the round = enjoyment but 
A million thanks again for your patience!
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Anytime. I’m learning too!
If it helps with your project I discovered a video showing intarsia in the round without a loop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1vQrSIDY8Q
No problem doing the 3 set up rows but trying to see where they fall on the chart… Just to be clear: unlike charts where WS is left to right on this chart the first st (slipped or not) of the round is the one directly to the left of the turn (red) indicator and then it goes to the next row up from right to left? I get intarsia, I get in the round, I get charts but the fact that the chart doesn’t start bottom right ruins it for me (and makes it hard to move a marker on the chart showing which row I’m on). Can you tell me where on the chart that very first 2 sts (which are K2 CC1) of round 1 are if I’m wrong? (it must be wrong because R2 starts with MC for 28 sts)
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Ordinarily the chart should always be worked right to left in the round. In fact you’re knitting flat here so you will be working left to right on the purl rows.
For the size small chart stitch one is cc1, the first block at the right corner. The 64th stitch all the way at the end of the row is also cc1. I believe that’s the K2sts in cc1.
Then row 2 starts with 2sts and end with 2sts (the diamond has increased by one stitch each side of the diamond).
I had seen the Jen Arnall video but I’d forgotten about it. Thank you for the reminder It shows short rows for working intarsia in the round which is a more straightforward approach even if the stacks are a bit more visible. They wouldn’t be so uncomfortable since they’re mostly on the ankle and leg rather than the foot.
Right… except that the written instructions for R2 say to Sl1 then P28 with MC so the chart starts 2 sts in & not at the first square… so I just don’t get how to follow the chart. But thank you.
I would tend to follow the chart. It has 2sts for row 2 at the beginning and 2 at the end. The diamond then growing one stitch each side of the 2sts on row 1. The beginning of row isn’t as critical (it’s moving anyway) as the charted designs.
The chart is simple the written is simple but for some reason the two together is confusing me… would’ve been halfway if all I did was use the chart from the start…lol
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You’re going to do this, perhaps by ignoring the beginning written instructions but one way or another, you can do these socks!
No… as much as it bugs me that it just isn’t computing, I think it’s time to switch over to https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/small-diamond-argyle-socks-7267 (no changing BOR even though the pattern cuts off diamonds at the heel) or just knit them seamed.