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How-to Questions
1

Hi folks.
Another newby asking for help here.
I made my first pair of gloves the other week and was really chuffed with myself, so i’ve rather ambitiously decided to try and make a pair of lace edged gloves but i’m stuck already. Could anyone tell me how doing this:
K1, [K2tog tbl, yo, K1] 5 times, [yo, K2tog] 5 times, K1
gets me from 47 stitches to 67 stitches?

I thought that if I K2tog tbl, yo, K1 then I end up with the same number of stitches. Where am I going wrong please?

(I’d ask my mum but she’s moved to Spain on me :wink: )

Thanks

Em x

2

Welcome!
You’ve got it perfectly and by the way, congrats on making the gloves (not an easy knit). Yes, each of the increases is balanced by a decrease in the row you’ve quoted. Can you give us a link to the pattern or a pattern name?

3

Salmonmac,

I’m a bit confused. Doesn’t (k2tog, yo, k1) 5 times increase the stitch count on the next row by 5?

4

K2tog is a decrease, YO is an increase. Because they are used together the stitch count will remain the same.

5

Are you supposed to from 47 to 67 sts?

Moms. What can you do with us? :teehee:

6

Hi and thanks.
My pattern is from a book. I’ll try and scan the page and post it later.

Em x

7

I think that’s what I’m supposed to do but I can’t figure out how?

Em x

8

Is this the entire row?
K1, [K2tog tbl, yo, K1] 5 times, [yo, K2tog] 5 times, K1
It requires 27sts and leaves you with 27sts. A scan of this part of the pattern would be good or a quote of the row with 47sts and the increase row would work too.

9

Hope this works. It’s row 7 I’m stuck on.
Em x

10

That didn’t work - try again!

11

This pattern for lace-edged gloves is from a Louisa Harding book, Hats Glloves, Scarves: Easy Designer Knits for Family and Friends.
There’s an errata sheet for the gloves:

"Classic Elegance (page 100) This one has incorrect brackets in the book.
Lace-Edged Glove Right Hand
[U]Row 7 (inc): K1,(K2tog tbl, [yo,K1]5 times, yo, K2tog) 5 times, K1.[/U] (6sts)"7
That’ll increase 20sts.

12

Well found!

Thank-you ever so much - I was beginning to think I was losing it.

Can’t thank you enough!

Em xx

:happydance: