Confusing directions!

I’ve been wanting to try one of Åsa Tricosa’s Ziggurat cardigans, and have finally settled on “Tric”.

It’s not even the unusual construction (top down with seamless set-in sleeves)–I haven’t gotten that far! It starts at the center back neck, and I’m a wee bit confused on the collar.

From the list of stitches:
sl1^ Wyf, sl1 purlwise, pull on yarn over and behind needle until both legs of st show (see link for German short rows)
k^ Knit through both legs of ‘pulled-tight’ st (the sl1^ from a previous row) as if it were a normal, single st

I’ve cast on 24 stitches and worked a set-up row and the first 2 rows of the pattern. The ribbing alternates between 24 and 14 stitches, depending on which row.

The issue comes with the German Short Rows, which don’t seem to line up.

Row 3: Sl1^, (yo, p1) 8 times, k1, sl1wyf, k1. (24 sts)
Row 4: Sl1wyf, k1, sl1wyf, (k1, p3tog) 4 times, k1^, p3tog, sl1wyf. (14 sts)

The slipped short row stitch (Sl1^) comes right on the edge, but the stitch to resolve the short row (k1^) happens with 5 stitches left? Or 4 stitches and the double stitch on the edge. I’ve tried knitting the k1^, doing the last p3tog and then slipping the double stitch on the edge, and it seems to work, but I’d love to know what I’m actually supposed to be doing!

The pattern has been out for 12 years, and there are 182 projects on Ravelry. AND there’s a discussion thread, but this issue doesn’t seem to have been addressed. So it would seem I’m the only one having an issue with it, but I just don’t get how the Sl1^ and k1^ are meant to align. I have posted this question on the discussion thread, but thought I’d check here as well.

Are there more sts in row 3? I only count 20sts instead of 24.
If they occur before the turn and row 3 is showing sts after the turn then the ds and the resolution in row 4 align.


The ds and the resolution are marked with carets. Row 3 is written backwards because that is the direction of knitting (right to left). Row 4 is written left to right. The sts that align are indicated by double headed arrows. (Forgive the lefty scrawl please.)

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From the instructions, it looks like row 3 is missing 4 stitches at the start ( before the sl(gsr)).

I only count 20 stitches in the row 3, not 24.

Row 4 has 14 stitches ( as specified).

If you follow the instructions for row 4, the resolve gsr stitch does sit over the double stitch. But then there is a further P3 together, SL1, for which there are no corresponding stitches on row 3.

Is there maybe an instruction earlier in the pattern about these extra stitches at the start of row 3?

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THANK YOU! Neither of those were quite correct, but your responses made me look at Row 2 again. I had wondered why it had TURN in bold, when none of the other rows specify a turn–the turn is before the end of the row, which should put that gsr stitch 4 stitches in from the edge.

One of those “do not make assumptions” things. Like “do this to the end of the row and turn”… I should also know by now that the mistake is almost always on the row BEFORE you think it is.

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Aha, good solution! Let us know how you like the ziggurat construction at the sleeves in this pattern please.

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Well done. So easily missed!

I took an interested in how you find it - I have one of her books but have not yet knitted from it!

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