HELP: How to decrease in basketweave pattern

How-to Questions
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Can anyone tell me how to decrease for the shoulder section for a basketweave poncho pattern?

I already have my basketweave pattern for 171 stitches (multiple of 19 stitches). I am working the poncho from the bottom up to the neck. So how do I go about decreasing for the shoulder section, to make it flares out from the shoulder down. Since it will be easier to decrease when I work from the bottom up.

Please help me and I would really appreciate it. Also, the decrease is from the shoulders up to the neck.

Thanks so much. :knitting:

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are you following a pattern or are you working on this on your own?

3

No, I’m not following a pattern but I’m working on this on my own. Using a basketweave pattern designed for knitting a scarf, I’m transferring it over to making it into a poncho to wear.

4

And are you making it in the round? That’s trickier to keep the decreases in pattern, than if they’re flat pieces and seamed up. What’s the pattern stitch - how many knits and purls in the it?

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I am kntting it in the round.

R1: knit
R2-R4: k4, p3, k5, p3, k4
R5: knit
R6-R8: p4, k3, p5, k3, p4

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You could do k2tog on the k5, p2tog on the p5 blocks just on the shoulder area so on later rows you’d have k4 or p4.

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Thanks so much suzeeq…I really do appreciate your help and wiseness.