HELP! Reading Patterns

#1

Hey,

I just started knitting literally a few days ago and although I’m getting the hang of it I have NO idea how to read this pattern!!

I’m knitting a stuffed toy and it is supposed to be easy to knit but I need help figuring out how to interpret this pattern…

I’ll start with this…
“inc one st into first 2sts”

Thanks!
Mary :thinking:

Does anyone know of a good website that’s helpful in learning how to read patterns??

#2

If you check out the abbreviations tab above, there are explanations of abbreviations you’ll find in patterns, as well as video for many. Also, the videos here will help immensely.

To increase into each of the next two stitches, knit into the front and back of each stitch. It’s called kfb.

#3

It sounds to me like you need to make an additional stitch in the first 2 stitches on your row. To do this, I usually knit into the front of the stitch, don’t take the stitch off the left needle yet, then knit into the back of the stitch, taking the stitch off the left needle now. Then repeat on the next stitch. Amy has a good video of this here. Hope that helps (and makes sense)

#4

Ingrid beat me to it, with her 10,000th post no less!!! :cheering: Congrats Ingrid, you are a knitting guru.

#5

Actually that was 9,999! :wink: :shock: I can’t believe it. :lol:

#6

Wow Ingrid, you must post about 3 posts a minute or something!! That’s a LOT of posting, do you have time to knit? :roflhard:

#7

I knit, work and sleep! I must be a fast typist. :wink:

#8

I’m impressed, but pondering the concept that you may well have a “mini-me” :thinking:

#9

If I had one of those, my house would be a whole lot cleaner! :rofling: I wouldn’t let her near my stash!

#10

If I had one of those, my house would be a whole lot cleaner! :rofling: I wouldn’t let her near my stash![/quote]

LOL, the stash-stealing-mini-me, that would make for a very scary nightmare!! :lol:

#11

Hey,

Thanks for the help!! That was fast!

So I think I’ve got that figured out…I just want to be sure I understand the rest before I move on…

So it said …
“working in st-st throughout, and beg with a k row, work 2 rows
next row: inc one st into first 2 sts, k (3), inc one st into next 4 sts, k to last 2 sts, inc one st into last 2 sts.
next row: p. rep last 2 rows, with number of sts in brackets 4 more each time, until you have 46 sts total. Work 39 rows; (48 rows total)”

So what I’m unsure about is what last two rows am I repeating? and what do they mean by the numbers in the brackets?

Thanks again so much!!!

Mary

#12

You’re supposed to keep repeating the increase row, and the p row until you have a total of 46 stitches on your needle.

The only number in the brackets I see is 3. It says 4 more each time in the brackets, so the increases you made previously would be knit with these stitches, so in the first knit row you’ll have 3 knits, then in the next knit row 7, then 11, then 15, etc.