Difficulty with Lang chart/ pattern

I’m totally confused by the chart directions for a sweater I’m starting to knit. The chart says is yo for right side and in parentheses it says ( ws= make 2 system from yo). My question is how? Lang is unresponsive and the pattern has very little instruction wise.

I am also wondering what the name of the last two stitches are on the list in the picture. I couldn’t find the symbols in any knitting charts. Are they both just cable stitches without using the cable?

Thanks for any help:)

Denise

Hello

I think the symbol used there is more commonly used for a k2tog or SSK but designers can use whatever symbols they want so long as they clarify how the stitch is intended to be worked, which they have here. I think this could be why you are finding it hard to find a name or tutorial for it.
I think this video will help you

It’s a 1/1 leaning cable cross but often called travelling stitches, sometimes called twisted stitches but in this pattern you are not twisting the stitch . Many videos show the travel with a knit and purl crossing but the video I found is knit with knit crossing so hopefully this will help. You can work it as it says in the pattern, and shown in the video or you can use a cable needle if you prefer, or you can reposition the 2 stitches before working them individually.

Your other question, making 2 sts from the YO, can be a KFB, knit front back, or a PFB, purl front back. You work into the front, do not let the worked stitch come off the left needle but keep it on and work into the back, then let it drop from the left needle. 2 sts on the right needle. It makes what looks like a knit and a purl.

Hope this helps.
What is the name of your pattern? Do you have a link for where it can be found?

Thank you so much!!! I was thinking pfb but it was unclear and everytime I googled the wording, information about yarn overs came up. Here is a copy of the link for the pattern

Thanks for the link it’s really good to see what the pattern turns out like. It’s unusual and has a look of crochet to it.

Glad to be able to help.
I haven’t done a pfb for quite some time. You might want to try it on a swatch first and see if it comes out any differently to a kfb. The kfb is easier to work as the pfb requires a little needle dancing. I don’t have a suitable piece of knitting or swatch to try it on myself just now. As these come either side of decreases you might want to try mirroring them to put the purl bump symmetrically on the diamond shaped open work. Honestly I’m not sure if it’s even a thing (kfb, kbf? Pfb, pbf? Or mirroring by putting kfb and pfb either side which sounds more probable to me but I don’t know???) but you could experiment. I’m sure more experienced knitters here will be able to help out with this with more clarity though.

Thank you. I was just thinking that. I’m going to do a quick sample before I start. It does look like crochet. I only purchased 5 skeins on vacation and I was super excited to find a sweater I could knit. I knit a lot of sweaters with short rows that use either pfb for increases or m1p and lli § so I’m familiar. I just wish the instructions were clearer. There are so many ways to make stitches but pfb makes more since on a yo.

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Hiya, according to the chart, you’ll knit and then purl into the yarn over on the wrong side.

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