Can manage the k4b but can’t see where to purl4b on the following row.
Knitting k4b and p4b
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What is the name of your pattern and designer?
If you would like, you can quote just the 2 rows that have the k4b and p4b. Don’t give us a large portion of the pattern due to designer copyright.
Thank you for getting back to me. My pattern is an old one , a man’s Aran polo neck jumper from a Hayfields book entitled ‘Going Places’.
Here are the first two rows of the Aran pattern part.
It may be a knit or purl into the back loop to make a twisted stitch. Take a look at the pattern photo and see if that makes sense with the pattern rows. It seems that the same sts that are knit into the back loop are then purled into the back loop on the next row.
I’m doing this on the lace sweater I’m knitting now.
Thank you so much I’ll take another look.
Oh dear what am I doing wrong. I’ve cast on 120 stitches increased to 132 as per the pattern. Then when knitting the pattern which is 13 stitches of broken rib at either end and 106 for the Aran part, I find I have 12 stitches spare, what have I missed.
When that happens, I go over each of the sts on the needle and compare them to the pattern. So many knits, so many purls, a repeat, a cable, whatever until I find something I missed. Markers re a great help here to set off the various sections of broken rib and parts of the aran panel.
If you’d like you can give us that particular row to look at too.
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I’ve identified all my worked stitches on the pattern. I don’t know if I’m missing a repeat or something.
These photos might help.
Do you have 13sts on each end in broken rib and 106 center sts in the aran pattern? At 132sts that should account for the first row. In the aran cables, the repeat of (p6, c6b, 3f, 3b, c6f) is repeated twice. The 3f, 3b and c6 cables should be defined in the beginning of the pattern or possibly at the end.
How does your pattern define 3b and 3f? I’m wondering if those represent 6sts worked twice (12sts) and could account for the missing or extra sts.