Double knitted armhold edges

I am quite stumped. I am knitting Camisole No 5 by My Favorite Things Knitwear.

They have instructed me to pick up and knit a certain number of stiches around the armhole. The pattern then says:

You are now ready to work your edge.
In the first picked up stitch, cast on a further 5 sts using the knit cast on method. The 5 sts establish the RS of the double knitted edge. Now work an establishing row, where you cast on another 4 sts (for the back of your double knitted edge) using the backwards loop method.

Work as follows:

K1, 1 st cast on using the backwards loop method, k1, 1 st cast on, k1, 1 st cast on,
k1, 1 st cast on, knit the following 2 sts tog tbl.

Now work the rest of the edge. Work back and forth over the 9 new sts at all times.
On each RS row, knit in 1 st from the picked up stitches around the armhole and in
this way, the edge will follow around the armhole.

I truly do not follow a lick of this. I understand that for the first stitch, we cast on 5 additional stitches. It then says to cast on another 4 stitches - where? The last stitch of the row? Or?

And when it says, “k1, 1 st cast on…” does that mean “k 1, cast on 1 stitch using etc” ?

Thank you in advance!

This is going to be double knitting where you knit one stitch of the 5sts for the front or right side (RS) of the edge and cast on one stitch for the back or wrong side (WS). You’ll be casting on the 4 back sts between each of the 5 sts already on the needle.

Cast on the 5sts, then follow the directions to k1, cast on 1, k1 cast on 1 and so on to add the other 4sts. It’s going to be similar to this video but at the end of every RS row, k2tog tbl.

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That will create a lovely finish. I am thinking you could use it in all sorts of places.

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Wow, how clever is that double knitting? I’m super impressed.

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I am trying out this border for a project, and ended up rewriting the instructions.

Double-knit border

You are now ready to work your armscye border, which is a double-knit, knitted-on band in the form of a flat tube.

Starting from the first picked-up stitch, cast on 5 sts using the knitted cast on. (Use a spare DPN to do this.)

These 5 sts form the right side of the double-knit border.

Knit across these stitches, adding another 4 sts for the wrong side of the border using the backwards loop method (M1), as follows:

K1, M1, k1, M1, k1, M1, k1, M1, knit 2 tog tbl.

You will now work back and forth over these 9 sts. On each RS row, you will consume 1 st from the picked-up stitches around the armscye and, in this way, the border will follow around the armscye.

Work as follows:

1st row (WS): *slip 1 purlwise wyif, k1* repeat from * - * to last st, slip 1 purlwise wyif.

2nd row (RS): *K1, slip 1 purlwise wyif* repeat from * - * to last st, k2tog tbl.

Repeat 1st and 2nd rows until you have worked your way around the armscye and all the picked-up stitches have been consumed.

Graft your remaining live stitches to the cast-on edge at the beginning of the band.

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Sarah Solomon has an article and tutorial on her blog about making a double-knit buttonband.

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Perfect timing! There is this double knit border with no instructions for the buttonholes. Thank you for the clear tutorial for those.

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