I am knitting a shell from Creative Knitting, and either I am not reading the pattern right or I am “lost”, Eyelet shell is the pattern in May 2009, It says , bind off at beg of row 5(4 sts) twice then (2 sts) twice. I am starting with 86 sts and supppose to be at 76 after bind off. My way of thinking beg row 5( 4 sts bind off ) then knit across and bind off 4 start next row then knit across and bind off 2 then knit scross and bind off 2. But my math says that is 12 instead of 10. What am I seeing here it is shaping armholes and neck. The way it written sounds like all bind off on beg row 5 but that would be wrong. HELP
Is it possible that you’re binding off only on one side for now, [I]starting[/I] at row 5, 4sts twice and then 2sts twice? And then you’ll work the other side?
If not then it does sound like straight forward armhole shaping, 4 sts at the beginning of the next 2 rows and 2sts at the beginning of the following 2. Either way, it is, as you say, 12.
It may be a typo in the pattern and you should really end up with 74 sts. I’d go with that; if you’re on the back then you’re correct - BO 4 at the beg of the next 2 rows, then 2 at the beg of the following 2 rows.