Hi
I am new to knitting and have already got stuck where my pattern says reduce the row from 57 to 53 stitches. I carried on with the set pattern for the next two rows but it no longer works because of the reduction in stiches. There are purl stitches where there should be knit stitches and knit stiches where there should be purl stitches! How do I modify the pattern to ensure that the rows stay consistent and it keeps the pattern and stitches in line with where they should be?
Any help would be very gratefully received.
Thanks
They all come off in one row? You’d probably need to take them off 2 at each end and figure where you are in the pattern and keep it all going in the middle. But if we had the pattern stitch we might find a better way. What part of what you are making is this? A lot of the time you want to take things out evenly over the row, but if you do that in a lace pattern or something it will mess it up. So we need to know what the pattern is.
Thank you for helping.
I am making some gloves but they are long gloves that go half way up the forarm. I have started from the elbow end so the reduction in stitches is to accomodate the norrowing of the arm around the wrist. The pattern is
Row 1: P3, *K2, P2, K2, P3, rep from * to end
Row 2: *K3, P2, K2, P2 rep from * to end
Row 3 and 4 are as rows 1 & 2
Row 5 P3, *cable 1 stitch to front, cable 2 stitches to back, K2, K1 from first cable, K3 from back cable, P3 * to end of row
Row 6: Repeat row 2
I did this until row 17 which then said P1, P2tog, (patt 16 stitches, P2tog) 3 times. 53 stitches.
Now I am at row 18 and the pattern in row 1 - 6, which is what they say forms the pattern, does not correlate with the previous 17 rows. Does that help?
Thank you so much for trying to help me - I have been getting very frustrated but I don’t want to give up.
Yvette
Your stitch pattern is knit the knits and purl the purl sts except on rows where you cross sts for the cables. But you don’t decrease over the pattern sts. So on R 18 you work 2 sts, then the 16 pattern sts then a p, then the pattern sts and a purl then once more and finish the end of the row.
Here is how I would think of it. You begin with p3 then you have 6 sts that are in a pattern of k2, p2, k2 (on right side rows), then another p3. You have that all across. See it as a pattern of k2, p2, k2 with 3 purls on each side of those all the way across. When they have you do the dec row what they are doing is reducing every other P3 to a P2. You do that on the first group of P3, skip the next one (leave it P3), then reduce the next on to P2, etc. all the way across.
They may not make it clear but to keep in pattern after you do the decrease row work the right side rows as P2, then the regular 6 stitches of k2, p2, k2, now P3, then the next k2, p2, k2, then you p2 again where it had been p3 before. Work the next k2, p2, k2 and then p3. So think of it as keeping everything the same as before but you reduced every other P3 to a P2 to narrow the glove a little. That takes out the 4 stitches in a way that will be quite unnoticeable and doesn’t disturb the pattern.
Does that make sense?
Thank you very much, that does make sense.
Thanks for your help.