Hi, I’m a fairly acccomplished knitter. However I have a problem at the moment. I am busy with a coat with a lace pattern. Decreasing on the right front over 23 stitches, keeping pattern correct. My problem starts with the 2nd decreases.
Pattern reads as follow:
1st row - k2, (yfd,sktpo, yfd, k1) repeat 5 times, k1 - rest of pattern is 2 purl and a 6 stitch cable.
2nd row - purl
3rd row k1, k2tog,yfd,k1, (yfd, sktpo,yfd,k1 - 4 times.
4th row - purl
The decreases must be done every 4th row - 11 times, then every 6th row 7 times until 5 stitches remain on lace side of pattern.
pattern I am using is Elle 7126 (Saprotex International)
your help will be appreciated.
Sorry, left front, sleeves and back is completed - decreasing on left front was not a challenge as I have knitted this coat before - but about 10 years from first coat to now is a bit of a long time. Did not make any notes on how I worked the decrease.
I have tried a sample, but still not working out.
there are no youtube videos that shows how to do this type of decreas.
thanks in advance.
Welcome to the forum!
Very pretty.
Are the lines you quote the actual lace pattern so that you need to work a decrease in addition to this pattern on some of the rows? The thing to remember when decreasing in a lace pattern is that the yfds and the sktpo of the pattern are linked to each other so that you may need to work those sts in stockinette (or whatever the background stitch is).
What is it about the decrease that is not working? Which decrease are you using? If this is the neck shaping on the right front (as you wear the cardi) ssk would work here.
(I’m assuming that sktpo is slip one, k2tog, pass slipped stitch over.)
Hi, thank you, yes that is the lines from the actual pattern. sktpo - slip one, knit 2together, pull slip stitch over. What is the ssk you refer to?
If I decrease in row 1 of the lace pattern, I leave the yfd out and do the sktpo, yfd, k1 and the repeats to end of the row. When I return to row 3 of the pattern, the pattern does not work out - start with k1, k2tog,yfd, k1, the pattern creates uneven ‘holes’ that is not part of the pattern, that’s the only way I can describe it.
Starting my decrease in row 1 of the pattern set, it means I decrease in every row 1
I made 4 of these coats - as I said 10 years ago, my friend lost a lot of weight and I offered to redo the coat for her, with 3/4 of the pattern, done, I am stuck on the right front.
Yes, the decreases will throw off the alignment of the pattern if you continue to try to work the repeat as given. The most important thing is to keep the columns of lace aligned with previous rows. To do that, you may need to substitute stockinette stitch for the remaining sts of the initial repeat. When you can begin a repeat in line with previous rows, start the pattern stitch.