Help with twisted stitch pattern

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Hi all
i’m new to knittinghelp.com
I’ve been having a problem with a twisted stitch pattern from a vintage knitting pattern c1940s.
It’s a cardigan with a patterned yoke. The pattern is a bit like a cable but you don’t use a cable needle.

The pattern row starts with P3 then K1R which works fine, and produces a right-slanting loop that spans 2 rows. This creates an edge loop which runs up the cardigan pattern, moving in and out around a central core K stitch.
The patt row is P3, K1R, k1, P1R, P2.

the problem stitch is the one it calls P1R - where the instructions tell you to “put the point of the right hand needle behind the first st on left hand neede. pull out the second st until you can purl into it, then knit into first st and slip both sts off needle together”.
When I do this, the stitch looks twisted in on itself, and looks nothing like the other one - it should look like a mirror image of the K1R stitch.

Can anyone help? I’m searching all the forums I can for some help, but thought I would post this just in case someone else had had the same problem!
thanks in advance for any advice. Here’s a link to the pattern on ravelry http://www.ravelry.com/projects/msmuffin/vintage-lavenda-cardigan
Or I can email you the pdf - it’s too big to post here

All the best,

MsM:cool:

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Maybe you could try this–slip the first stitch off the needle, then slip the second stitch to your right tip. Put the left tip back into the one you slipped off, then put the other back on the left tip. Then work them p1, k1 and see how it looks.

If this is confusing, check out Amy’s video on cabling without a cable needle to get the idea.

Basically, you’re still working them out of order yet you don’t have to bother with a cable needle.

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Hi Ingrid
that’s brilliant, it works!
Thank you so much.
hurrah for knittinghelp.com! :muah:

Msm
xxx