Flared-Bottom V-Neck Cardigan

#1

Here is the pattern: http://www.cascadeyarns.com/patternsFree/W190bVeneziaCardigan.pdf

I’m trying to do it in size XL. I got as far as this part ([I][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Begin Peplum - Lower Bodice)[/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/I]:

[LEFT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Working in Stockinette stitch, work 12 rows even. Divide into sections with markers: K20, (pm, k1, pm, k19) 6 times, pm, k1, pm, K20) (161 sts)[/SIZE][/FONT]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Decrease Row: K 18 (ssk, K1, K2tog, K17) 6 times, ssk, K1, K2tog, K19. (147 sts.)[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Work even 12 rows.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Decrease Row: K17, (ssk, K1, K2tog, K15) 6 times, ssk, K1, K2tog, K18. (133 sts.)[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Work even12 rows.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Decrease Row: K16, (ssk, K1, K2tog, K13) 6 times, ssk, K1, K2tog, K17. (119 sts.)[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Work even 12 rows, ending ready to knit a RS row.[/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT]

[/SIZE][/FONT][I][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Short-Row Peplum Dart
[/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/I][LEFT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]: Knit 80 sts, W&T, purl 40, W&T, Knit to the end of the row, picking up 1st wrap[/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]
[LEFT][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]along the way, turn, purl across row, picking up 2nd wrap along the way. [/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT]
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[/SIZE][/FONT][LEFT][I][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]If needed, repeat this Short[/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/I][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]
[I][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Row Dart one time more for fullness across mid-section of front.[/FONT][/SIZE][/I]

[I][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]I can’t for the life of me figure out what to do after knitting the 12 rows even. Do you put markers in your knitting without actually knitting for the row that says “[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Divide into sections with markers: K20, (pm, k1, pm,k19) 6 times, pm, k1, pm, K20) (161 sts)[/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT]”, because if you knit it, you are on the WS and it says nothing about purling row after that.[/FONT][/SIZE][/I][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]

[I]Also, the decreases don’t make any sense to me at all. Can anyone help me (please)?[/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT]
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#2

Working in Stockinette stitch, work 12 rows even. Divide into sections with markers: K20, (pm, k1, pm, k19) 6 times, pm, k1, pm, K20) (161 sts)

You’re right, they tell you to do it on the knit row, but if you do you will want to do it on the last right side row before you finish your 12 rows even, you could do it on a purl row since all of it is even, or even throw in an extra purl row they don’t mention. Just be sure you do the same on both the fronts and the back.

The pattern has this note about the markers and the decreases:

Note: Place markers between stitches and move them up as piece is worked. Decreases are worked in
the two stitches before and two stitches after marked stitch to form peplum.
So they give both the stitch counts and the markers. Once you see where the decreases fall in relation to the markers you won’t always need to count.

Decrease Row: K 18 (ssk, K1, K2tog, K17) 6 times, ssk, K1, K2tog, K19. (147 sts.)
This is explaining the first decrease row. Written out long hand this is: Knit 18 stitches, ( do a slip, slip, knit, knit 1 stitch, knit 2 stitches together, knit 17 stitches). [If you don’t know how to do a ssk=slip, slip, knit look in the glossary, scroll down to SSK and it has a video for how to do it. It is a left slanting decrease that reduces 2 stitches to 1 stitch.] Repeat what is inside the parenthesis 6 times total. Then do another slip, slip, knit, knit 1, knit 2 together, and knit the last 19 stitches. When you complete the row you should have 147 stitches. You have decreased away 14 stitches. Knit 12 rows with no changes.

Each decrease row you decrease away another 14 stitches and after each decrease row you work 12 rows even. After the 3 decrease rows and the 3 sets of 12 rows even in stockinette you are ready for the dart.

If you are not familiar with short rows with wraps you will need to study up on them a little, because that is what you are going to be doing. Here is a link to the page on this site that has a video about them. LINK Scroll down to “Short Row with Wrap”. I haven’t watched it, but hopefully it also covers picking up the wraps as your pattern directs you to do.

Knit 80 sts, W&T, purl 40, W&T, Knit to the end of the row, picking up 1st wrap
along the way, turn, purl across row, picking up 2nd wrap along the way.

What you do is to knit the first 80 stitches in the row and then you wrap a stitch so there won’t be a hole where you turn, then you exchange the needles in your hands like you do at the end of a row and prepare to work in the other direction. You will purl 40 stitches and wrap a stitch there, and turn again. This time you knit to the end of the row and when you pass the place where you wrapped the stitch you pick up the wrap so it won’t show on the front. To pick up the wrap on the knit row, just run the working needle under the wrap and into the the stitch it is wrapping where you normally would to knit it and knit them together. At the end of the row you turn and purl back and pick up the other wrapped stitch. When you pick up the wrapped stitch on the purl row remember that you want the wrap not to show on the right knit side. So when you come to the wrap, pick up the part of the wrap that is behind the left needle, with the right needle and put in on the tip of the left needle then purl it together with the stitch that was wrapped.

Does that help any?

#3

Thanks Merigold, but I always end up with extra stitches and not enough repeats at the end of the first row of decreases…and the markers that I placed earlier don’t fit in with the decrease sequence. The marker placement doesn’t make sense to me.

Here is the decrease row:
K 18 (ssk, K1, K2tog, K17) 6 times, ssk, K1, K2tog, K19. (147 sts.)

But here is the math (ssk or K2tog = 2 sts):

18 + (6 x (2 + 1 + 2 +17)) + 2 + 1 + 2 +19 = 174 sts., not the 161 that I started with.

I can’t get it to work.

#4

You are absolutely right. :lol: I hadn’t checked all the numbers to see if they made sense, I just assumed they did, but they don’t. You are right on both counts, they markers are not set to work the way they say they do, and it adds up to 174 instead of 161. I’m at a loss to explain that. Is there a place at the site this comes from to ask a question, or contact the designer? Something seems very wrong here.

#5

I have another idea. :figureditout: Ignore the directions for the decrease rows and just do them based on where the markers are. They seem to be in the right places. If you work each decrease row like this:

*knit to within 2 stitches of the marker, SSK, slip the marker, k1, slip the marker, k2tog; repeat from the * until you run out of markers, then knit to the end of the row.

Things would come out with the 14 decreases and do like the note said:

Decreases are worked in the two stitches before and two stitches after marked stitch to form peplum.
The “marked stitch” would be the center stitch between the two markers and likewise between the two decreases. You would do it the same way on each of the three decrease rows, just going by the markers. Follow with 12 rows of St st after each decrease row.

I think that would work fine. But it bodes poorly for the quality of the directions. You may find other things wrong. Good luck.

#6

Thanks so much. I’ll try that.