Hello, I am knitting the oversized sweater Blank by Kim Hargreaves and am very confused by the way she writes her patterns! I have knitted, realised my mistakes, frogged and carried on doggedly but knitting the front of this sweater has defeated me when I reached the shoulder and neck shaping. I am attaching a screenshot of the pattern section (bracketed in yellow) currently confounding me.
The first cast off is clearly marked RS (green) but then the next cast off (red) appears like it should also be RS but according to the ‘turn’ indicated above it we should be on the WS. I am inclined to assume that after the turn we should just put in a purl WS row till we begin the shaping on next RS row, but her using the description of this cast off row as the “2nd” row suggests to me a WS row since the 1st row was Labelled RS. Ugh…. The neck edge decreases of the next 6 rows (indicated in blue) as I understand it should begin on the same RS row indicated by the red arrow, and then should I decrease again immediately after the turn to the WS, continuing as such? I would be so grateful if someone can help me understand what to do here before I stuff the whole thing in a bag and hide it in the dark recesses of my craft cupboard….