I am working on a tank top and wanted to just clarify these instructions and make sure I am working them correctly. The pattern reads:
[COLOR=Magenta]“Dec 1 st each side every other row 7 times (ending with 71 sts).” [/COLOR]
If I understand this correctly I begin by binding off one stitch, knit to the end of the row and bind off one stitch. Turn, begin the next row without doing any decreases, finish that row. Turn and begin the next row and bind off, knit to end, bind off one. I do this until I have bound off 7 rows.
I just assumed I bind off, is there another way I am supposed to do it? And if there is, how do I know which is the best way to do them?
I realized after I read the first reply that I had something like that before, but it was a bit different (apparently had a brain hiccup that I actually did it before!). In this pattern I am only doing knit stitches, but from the way I read the pattern I only do the decreases on the right side of that pattern. I spent sometime looking over Amy’s instructions and they were really helpful!
I am curious when a pattern doesn’t specify a certain type of decrease (or increase), do you just pick one that is best suited for it based on the stitch pattern and yarn? How do you know, just learn with experience?
Pretty much through experience, but when they’re paired - one at each edge of a piece or on a symmetrical stitch pattern - you usually have them leaning toward each other and the center. On some raglan patterns, you might do them opposite.
