Hi,
I’m fairly new to knitting and am struggling mightily with reading a pattern. It’s the We Are Knitters Juliet Tee.
I have to do an increase row, with these instructions:
“knit 5 stitches, make 1 increase. * knit 4 stitches. make 1 increase *. Repeat from * to * until 6 stitches remain, knit 6 stitches. At the end of the row you will have a total of 82 stitches.”
I start the row with 67 stitches and should end with 82, but not matter how many times I try, I end up with 86. I have tried the M1 and the kfb increases (with the latter, like this: k4, kfb, * k3, kfb * but to be honest I have no idea if that’s the right way to do it. Clearly not since it isn’t working. I’ve frogged this section so many times my yarn is starting to split and I’m getting frustrated!
I’m sure it’s a simple solution but I cannot for the life of me figure it out. What am I doing wrong?
Should I be knitting 5 stitches clean, and then making a (6th st) increase, and then consider that as the first stitch of the repeat?
Please help! Thank you