Knitting on the Wrong Side?

How-to Questions
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I have a question that might just be me being over-thinking things, but I’d like to ask before I start doing this and have to go back.

I’m working on a cabled headband for a friend, and I’ve gotten the length I need. I’m at the point where I need to decrease a bit and add an ending portion of plain stockinette for buttonholes…The pattern says

[B]Work in pattern until the headband fits around your head when you stretch it a little, end on RS.

With WS facing: K3, K2tog, K8, K2tog, K3 (=16sts)

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Is it [I]meaning[/I] for me to use a [I]knit[/I] stitch on the [I]purl/wrong side[/I], or am I reading it incorrectly :shrug: ?

Thanks so much!,

Zach

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What is the name of your pattern? Do you have a link to it?

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Yes. I tried to post the link in the beginning, but this is my first ever post, so I couldn’t.

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Welcome to knittinghelp!

So the pattern goes like this:

"With WS facing: K3, K2tog, K8, K2tog, K3 (=16sts)

Now knit one row and purl one row."

It makes sense. You will be creating a garter stitch ridge by doing a knit row on the WS. When you look at the picture, the ridge is above the buttonholes.

That is a nice looking headband. Who is the lucky recipient?

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Wow…okay! Thank you so much. In my head, it made sense, but then I was looking at it in my hands going “…no…”. Thank you. I just bound off and am currently weaving in the ends–it turned out perfect!

It’s for my friend! We’re both going away for college in a week and I needed a project, so I asked her what she wanted and she found the headband :slight_smile: I used a thinner yarn, so now my new mission is to find small, perfect buttons…Thank you so much, again!