Hi !
I am knitting in the round for a sweater for the first time, and one round is 200 stitches. However, the colour work pattern is 14 stitches of pattern to be repeated, which doesn’t make an even 200. The instructions are telling me to alter the stitch count to 196, do the motif, and to change back to 200 once done, and that’s all the instruction provided.
I am quite confused on how to do this. Am I meant to knit several stitches together until I have gone down to 196? If so, which stitches to i knit together ?
Or, am I mean to simply do my colour work for 196 stitches, call that the end of a row, and move on to the next row of the colour work for 196 stitches and so on and so forth ? And then once I’m done with the colour work I go back to calling one row 200 stitches ?
I would appreciate any insights on this, I feel very lost !
It sounds like you should decrease four times, evenly distributed on the last round before the colourwork starts, thus reducing the stitch count by 4 sts. (And then do the opposite after the colourwork is finished.)
Was the pattern originally published in a language other than English? It seems patterns are often translated into English, but not into knitting English.
It would help if you could tell us the name and designer/publisher of the pattern.
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Thank you for the clarification !
Yeah, I believe this was originally created in Norwegian, It’s the porcelain sweater by Lene Holme Samsøe on leknit.com
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Nice sweater pattern.
If I was doing this I would knit 2 together at stitches 25, 75, 125, and 175. This reduces by 1 st every 50 stitches so it’s even across the round (avoiding working 2 tog near beg or end of round)
Hope this helps
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Welcome to the forum!
This is such an attractive pattern and a classic design. Thanks for posting about it!
What a lovely pattern - actually the whole site is full of lovely patterns!
I think I’d go for the easy route given the shape and just work it on 196 stitches to start with.
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I would take the easy route too! What’s the point of 4 extra stitches for the white sections? That’s what, 1/2" or less, in a sweater with 6-8" of positive ease? You won’t even notice. Could be a translation error from the original Danish.
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Do the different colorwork patterns have a different repeat stitch count? I doubt that starting with 4 stitches fewer will be a problem unless the rib isn’t 1x1 as it looks to me but is something that won’t work out over the reduced stitch count. For the decreases I’d space them about every 50th stitch (k48, k2tog) and not sweat it if I messed up my count - as already suggested, evenly spaced.
https://leknit.com/shop/porcelain-sweater-english-607p.html
edited to correct (k8, k2tog) to (k48, k2tog)
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I’ve seen some fairisle patterns like this which have the need to change stitch count before/after different patterns to make the patterns fit as a repeat. The 4 extra stitches may be needed for another of the patterns in the sweater.