Help with pattern

#1

I am trying to knit a dishcloth in a ripple stitch but having a hard time with number of stitches matching… its a ripples pattern (multiple of 11 sts +6) I know the 6 is 1st 3 and last 3…I casted on 50 sts…that leaves 44 for pattern

ripple pattern

row 6: sl 1 k2 *k2tog, k2 M1, k3, M1, k2, ssk, rep from * to last 3 sts, end k3…

when I get to the end I don’t have enough to work last set of pattern, to many sts left on needle…If I don’t do the ssk, then I would have enough to do the pattern 4 times per row…but if I do the ssk, it don’t work out…could someone please help me with… I have been knitting for a long time and understand multiple sts for patterns, but this one has got me stumped…

#2

The pattern adds up correctly. There’re 11sts required for the sts between the asterisks if you don’t use up a st doing the M1. You could lift the bar between sts and knit into the back loop of the bar so that you don’t get a hole. Or if you do a knit front and back, count the knit into the front as the increase and count the knit into the back as the next knit st.

#3

if u don’t add the ssk, then it adds up…but I have 44 sts to work the pattern…it u add the ssk that gives me a 13 sts to work pattern…not 11…so the k2tog, k2 M1, k3, M1, k2, = 11 sts…but if u add ssk that is 13 and 13 x 4 does not = 44 sts to work pattern

#4

Don’t leave out the ssk.
The M1 doesn’t use a stitch. The k2tog uses 2 sts, +k2 +k3 +k2 +2 more sts for the ssk= 11sts. Don’t use a stitch for the M1. That’s what I was getting at in the previous post. Do an increase like the lifted bar increase where you pick up the bar [I]between[/I] sts and knit into the back of the loop (see the video on the Increases section of the Free Videos at the top of the page.

#5

For the m1s don’t use kfb, that’ll use up 2 sts. You can do a backward loop around the needle or the lifted stitch described in the post above.

#6

thank u that makes more since…I did go to the Glossary and looked at the M1 to make sure I was doing it right, but it said unless stated it was and inc…what u r telling me makes more since…thank u again…

#7

A m1 is always an increase, can’t think where it wouldn’t be…

Oh, what it says is if the [B]pattern [/B]doesn’t specify which increase to use, you can use it. Though sometimes the patterns can be written poorly; they may say ‘make 1’ to increase, but really mean to do a kfb, not a m1 increase. Sometimes you have to figure it out by how many sts you start with and how many you’re supposed to end up with.