Well, I’m knitting a jumper (my first!) and am decreasing for the armholes.
The bit I am stuck on looks like this:
a) next row: k2, k2tog, k to last 4sts, sl 1, k1, psso, k2.
next row: p2, p2 tog tbl, p to last 4sts, p2tog, p2.
b) Working all armhole decreases as set by last 2 rows, dec 1 st at each end of next 3 rows, then on foll 4 alt rows.
Part b is where I get lost. I’ve got to reduce from 93 stitches to 75 but when I count up, it’s never 18 stitches that I am losing.
Any help would be much appreciated. It’s probably quite simple, but this is the most complex pattern I’ve ever followed, so I’m still getting used to it!
The following 4 every other rows is puzzling, but maybe you just do the decs on the RS rows only and purl on the WS rows. I do get just 16 sts decreased, is that what you get? I’d just do another dec on the purl row in there somewhere - maybe it was at typo and should read “dec 1 st at each end of the next 4 rows, then on the foll 4 alt rows”. Whatever gets you the correct number of stitches.
Oh wait, it does work out. You’re doing 5 rows at first, 2 sts on each row, that’s 10, then 4 ‘alt’ rows that’s 8 for 18 total. I forgot the purl row in the beginning setso was only counting 4 rows not 5. Your chart needs 2 more rows on it. The ‘foll alt rows 4 times’ means every other row for 4 dec rows, so you do 8 rows, not just 4.