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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Using your smaller needles cast on 58 stitches[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]1st row: (this will be the right side of the work) Knit to end.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman](this row forms garter stitch). [/FONT][/SIZE]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Repeat 1st row w times more.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Change to your main needles and beginning with aknit row continue in stocking stich for the remainder of the back as follows:[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Work 2 rows.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Wor 13 rows decreasing 1 st. at each end of 1st and every following 4th row. This will give you 8 sts less and you will now have 50 stitches on the needle.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Shape raglan[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Cast off 4 sts at beginning of the next 2 rows. You will now have 42 sts on the needle[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Work 8 ros decreasing 1 st at each end of 1st and every following 4th row.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]You will now have 38 sts on the needle[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Work 4 rows decreasing 1 st at each end of 1st and every following alternate row[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]You will now have 34 sts on the needle.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Cast off remaining 34 sts loosely.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]LEFT FRONT[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Using your smaller needles cas on 35 sts.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Work 3 rows in garter stitch.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Next Row. K11 sts., leave these 11 sts on a stich holder, knit to end.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]You will now have 24 sts on the needle.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Change to your main needles and continue in stocking stitch for the remainder of the left front as follows:[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Work 2 rows[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Work 13 rows decreasing 1 st at beginning (side edge) of next and every following 4th row. This will give you 4 sts less and you will now have 20 sts on the needle[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Shape Raglan[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Cast off 4 sts, knit to end. You will now have 16 sts on the needle[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Next row. Purl[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Work 9 rows decreasing 1 st at raglan edge in next and every following 4th row[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]You will not have 13 sts on the needle.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Shape Neck[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Next row. Cast off 9 sts, purl to end. You will now have 4 sts on the needle[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Next row. (K2tog) twice. You will now have 2 sts on the needle.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Next Row. P2tog. Fasten off.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Left Front Border This is the confusing part to me![/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]With right side of work facing, using your smaller needles cast on 1 st (this will be used later for sewing up) What??? Rejoin yarn to 11 sts left on a stitch holder and knit. You will now have 12 sts on the needle. Continue working in garter stitch until border is of sufficient length to go up left front, finishing after a wrong side row. Leave these sts on a stitch holder.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Then you do right front and right front border the same as for the left, shape raglan, shape neck etc. etc.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Then you do the sleeves, separately …so you have all these pieces[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I have done all this so far and now here it goes//[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]YOKE[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Join raglan seams. With rs facing, using smaller needles work across 12 sts of right front borderas follows: k12, k2 tog, pick up and knit 11 sts evenly along right side of neck, 21 sts from sts cast off at top or right sleeve, 30 sts from 34 sts cast off at back, 21 sts from 24 sts cast off at top of left sleeve, 11 sts evenly along left side of neck and work across 12 sts of left fron bordere as follows: k2tog, k10. You will now have 116 sts on the needle.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Work 5 rows in garter stitch[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Next row (decrease row) k15, k2tog, 14 times, k15[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]You will now have 101 sts on the needle.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Work 5 rows in garter stitch.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Next row (buttonhole row) k5, cast off 2 sts, k6, k2 tog, 14 times, k15. You will now have 84 sts on the needle.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Next row. Knit to last 5 sts, cast on 2 sts, k5[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]You will now have 86 sts on the needle.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Work 4 rows in garter stitch[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Next row (decrease row). K14, k2tog, 14 times, k14[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]You will now have 71 stitches on the needle[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Work 6 rows in garter stitch.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Cast off[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]To make up[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Join side and sleeve seams. Sew borders in position ( using cast on sts) again What???[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]This makes no sense on me at all, I have all these pieces and am going to knit along top of all these pieces? And what is using this 1 cast on stitch to attach borders? I am so confused![/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Ginny[/SIZE][/FONT]
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Here is that swing coat pattern I was talking about in previous post
You knit the border by itself from the stitches on the holder. The one extra stitch is so you can sew it to the body of the sweater when it gets long enough.
Once those are done, it looks like you’re going to join all the pieces at the top to make the yoke.
Imagine a line of stitches that goes from the front edge of the sweater all around to the other side. You’ll work the left border first, then the left front, the left sleeve, the back, the right sleeve, right front and right border.
“The one extra stitch is so you can sew it to the body of the sweater when it gets long enough.”
See, this is what doesn’t make sense to me…how does one extra stitch sew this whole border to the body? I know I am dense!
Ginny
Bodyofsweater [COLOR=Red]X[/COLOR]border
Bodyofsweater [COLOR=Red]X[/COLOR]border
Bodyofsweater [COLOR=Red]X[/COLOR]border
Bodyofsweater [COLOR=Red]X[/COLOR]border
Bodyofsweater [COLOR=Red]X[/COLOR]border
[COLOR=Black]The red stitch is the stitch to use on the border.[/COLOR]
Maybe it’s one that you use in the decreases to join the pieces together, rather than one used in actual sewing? Try to do it step by step and see if it works out. Sometimes when you’re there and doing the sts, you see how it all goes together.