Greetings! I am working on the Berroco Eastlake Sweater and have already hit a snag. First the pattern calls for “M7”. I don’t know how to Make 7 in one stitch and I can’t find any tutorials on how to make multiple stitches together.
Also, I have 34 stitches in the ‘leaf pattern’ and it asks that I M7 twice and should end up with 46 sts. How do they think 34 + 14 = 46?
I have copied the offending instructions below: thanks so much for any help on this.
5: ssk,p12,k1tbl,p1,yo,k2,yo,p1,k1tble,p12,k2together
6: (purl all P sts, knit all K sts and knit YO sts)
7: ssk,p11,M7,p2,yo,k2,yo,p2,M7,p11,k2together
Hi Cricket (hope you don’t mind my shortening your screen name),
Patterns usually have a stitch definition section that tells you how special stitches need to be worked, there should be one for your M7 in the pattern.
Is there a photo or a pattern you can give us a link to so we can see how the design should look?
I guess they think I’m smarter than I am because there are no hints in the book as to what M7 means…no stitch definitions anywhere. Here is a link to the sweater’s picture.
In checking your link, it looks to me as if in row 75 under Pattern Corrections there is a M1 which looks more like a M7 than a M1. Could your problem be that the 1 looks like a 7 so that you’re supposed to M1? How would the count come out? I don’t know how many or which parts might be repeated, if any.
You have 34 sts at the end of rows 5 and 6. Two of those 34 sts will be used for the M7 so you’ll actually only be adding 6 new sts each time you do the M7. 34+6+6=46
I agree with Charlotte that the definition of the M7 should be somewhere in the pattern but the next thing to do is to write to Berrocco to ask.
You can probably do a k1, yo, k1, yo, k1 yo, k1 into the single stitch to give you 7. It’s like this but with the extra yarn over and knit ones.
I checked to see if there’s a copy of the booklet in PDF that I could buy, but all I can find are books. Not a bad thing as i love books, but it would take too long to get your answer that way. :sad: Someone else on the boards may have this collection, though…
Unless someone else has Norah Gaughan Vol. 3, the only thing I can think of right now is to use the Contact Us link and ask where the M7 definition is in the book, or to send it to you and update the errata to include it.
One last place to check: I’ve had some booklets put a list of stitches used in patterns in the very back like an appendix. Goofy and confusing, I know.
I wish you luck with finding the M7, because that’s a gorgeous sweater!
I tried the “Nupp” pattern from the link I posted above and it seems to be what they’re looking for. It is the base of the leaf in the pattern and it creates a little pop-out at the base and the leaf forms off of it. I have a love-hate thing with these Borroco patterns, they have the photo and that pattern (usually with corrections) and absolutley no helpful hints, stitch guides or general directions. I believe they are written in Norwegian or Dutch and translated, It makes for an interesting project.
