Deciphering patterns

How-to Questions
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I have a knack for finding patterns that make me :hair:

Maybe its because I’m a self taught knitter, or the knitting fairy’s have it out for me! :gah:

I have ripped back more than one can imagine and I really get sick of just leaving a started project to the bag of “Ill figure it out later”

I’m working on a pattern right now that is giving me fits!! Its for a really cute raglan sweater that is knit from the top down which I thought “Oh this will be simple!” wrong!

Any tips, tricks … Words of advice?!

Here is the pattern that I’m having a hell of a time with though thankfully Ingrid has helped me immensely!

An example of my pain lol … How would you know that you don’t count the wrong side row when the pattern tells you to repeat the last 2? ARGH!!

Read through it and tell me if its just me please

It was a free pattern I found on Knitting Daily:

Cabled Raglan Baby Sweater

Stitch Guide:
Eccentric Cable: (worked over 12 [14, 14] sts)
Row 1 and all WS rows: (WS) K2 (3, 3), p8, k2 (3, 3).
Rows 2, 6, 8, 12, 14, and 16: (RS) P2 (3, 3), k8, p2 (3, 3).
Rows 4 and 10: (RS) P2 (3, 3), sl 4 sts to cn and hold in back, k4,
k4 from cn, p2 (3, 3).
Row 18: Rep Row 2.
Rep Rows 1–18 for cable.

[edited down to the lines in question]

Row 3: Keeping front bands in garter st and non-cabled sections in St st, work 1 row in patt.

Row 4: K5, work 12 (14, 14) sts in cable patt, *knit to 1 st before m, k1f&b, sl m, k1f&b; rep from * 3 times, knit to last 17 (19, 19) sts, work 12 (14, 14) sts in cable patt, k5—8 sts inc’d.

Cont in patt and rep last 2 rows 17 (19, 21) more times, ending with a RS row—232 (254, 276) sts total: 62 (68, 74) sts for back, 48 (52, 58) sts for each sleeve, and 37 (41, 43) sts for each front.

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Please don’t post an entire pattern here; a link is good along with just a few rows where you’re stuck.

I don’t quite understand your question.

How would you know that you don’t count the wrong side row when the pattern tells you to repeat the last 2?

You do have to count the WS row if you’re repeating any 2 rows. When a pattern says “end with a RS row” that means you’ve just finished it. So you repeat the previous 2 rows - 3 and 4 - and finish with the RS row which is row 4. Then the next row you work will be a WS row.

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Sorry its in pdf form and I didn’t know how to post that here.

Basically I was just wondering how you learn to decipher patterns when they are this complicated but I guess that will just come with time.

I never knew you didn’t count the WS row if your repeating any 2 rows so I’ve learned something new.

Sorry to be so confusing its hard to communicate/translate what you mean when you don’t understand something or you are learning.

Thank you for your time

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I never knew you didn’t count the WS row if your repeating any 2 rows so I’ve learned something new.

This is your confusion - you do count it. Row 3 is the WS and when you repeat the previous 2 rows, you repeat rows 3 and 4.

I’m going to edit your post and take out everything but that part. To put in a link, put in the .pdf link to it, or to the knitting daily page.