I am a beginner who has taken on the challenge of knitting the Roux Pattern by Kim Hargreaves - and have come to a grinding halt at the “Shape Front Slope” section of the Left Front section of the cardigan. Much as I try, unable to make sense of the following instruction . Please HELP ! My pattern is described below and my notes in brackets)
The pattern is set in 10 rows and the next row is Row 9 of the pattern.
Shape Front Slope
Next Row (RS): Pattern to last 13 st, P2tog, Pattern 11 St : 39 stitches (I got this right)
Working all front slope decreases as set by last row, continue as follows :
Work 1 Row (so Row 10 with no decreases ? I got this right too)
Shape arm hole
Keeping pattern correct, CO 4 St at beginning and decrease 1 st at front slope edge of next row (I got this right too and ended up with 34 Stitches in the RS row 1 of the 10 row pattern)
Work 1 row (WS Row 2 of the pattern with no decreases)
From here on, I am stumped :
The instruction says : Decrease 1 st at armhole edge of next 5 rows, then on following 2 alternate rows and at the same time, decrease 1 st at front slope edge of next and following 1 alternate row, then on 1 following 4th row !!! to get to 24 stitches.
(The next 5 rows - are these RS Row 3, Row 4, Row 5, Row 6 , Row 7 ?)
Following 2 alternate rows are Row 8, Row 10?)
So when I need to decrease 1 st at armhole edge of the above said rows, on the RS Row 3, I would decrease on the right end of the row and on the WS Row 4, at the beginning end of the Row and so on ?)
At the same time, I decrease 1 st on the RS Row 3 front slope edge (what is the front slope edge? Do I follow the pattern - pattern to last 13 stitches etc ? How can I do that when the number of stitches have decreased ??)
if I decrease 1 st on the RS Row 3, I also do this on Row 5 and Row 9 ?)
I think the biggest confusion is - whether you follow the originally set pattern of stitching to 13 stitches, knit together and do the pattern till the end OR just focus on the decreases on the armhole edge and front slope edge (and forget the statement - Working all front slope decreases as set by last row)
Sorry to be so verbose - but wanted to give all the info. Hopefully someone has the patience to read this long post to the end