Knitting raglan sleeve help!!!

Hi,

My question is regarding knitting a raglan sleeve.I’ve got to a stage where it’s symmetrical (about halfway up) and looking fine and then the pattern says: work 10 rows descending one stitch at the raglan edge every ……. Rows. My question really is because it’s symmetrical which side is the raglan edge. I’ve done the maths and looked ahead at how many stitches I should end up with and it would suggest that I descend one stitch at each end on the rows it suggested or is it just the one side (like the picture shows) So it tapers in on only one side and the other stays straight? I’ve attached the pattern and picture of the sleeve.

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Hello
It really just means don’t decrease in some random place on the row but decrease at each end which is where the raglan edge is.

Rows 1 to 4 set up how to do the shaping with decreases and where to put the decreases (described in row 1).
When you are to work a number of rows with decreases on certain rows you are going to work in stocking stitch unless it is a dec Row in which case use row 1 as a guide for the decrease.

If you are to work 10 rows with decrease in next and every foll 4th row its
Row 5 dec
6 7 8 work straight
Row 9 dec
10 11 12 work straight
Row 14 dec

Hope I’ve typed that correctly
And hope it helps, I i think you aleady worked out where the dec rows were anyway.

I think I understand. Like my picture shows I’ve ticked off what I’ve already knitted. Now do I do 10 rows or does that first (row 1 to 4) count as my first?

So just to confirm to keep the shaping I just repeat the listed rows one to four so it’s only on a decrease when I do a row 1?

I’m pritty sure it’s an additional 10 rows with my maths.

Consider the rows 1-4 that you’ve already done as the first 4 rows. The next row is row 5. Work a decrease at each end on rows 5,9 and 13. Working one more purl row will complete the 10 extra rows and leave you with the RS facing for the next direction.
That’ll take you to 27sts.

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Thanks for your reply. If I take what I’ve already done as the first four rows, by the end of 10 rows that would leave me with 29 stitches. So doesn’t it mean an additional 10 rows to the first 4 rows to leave me with 27. On every decrease row I am loosing two stitches.

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Thanks for picking up my error on the number, I missed out row 13!

Yes you are right, they are 10 additional rows after the first 4 already done.
The row numbers we have used are just carrying on from what you’ve done
Done 1 2 3 4
Now do 5 through to 14
This is another 10 rows.

If you prefer you can start counting at row 1 again if it makes more sense to you
Done 1234
Start counting again
1 dec
234
5 dec
678
9 dec
10

It’s the same but one way or the other might make more sense to you.

I’m starting to understand more now.

When I do the descend rows do I do them all like row 1(k1, slip 1, K1, PSSO, knit to the last three, k2 together, k1)

Thank you for your time explaining this to me. I’m a beginner knitter so am learning how to read patterns.

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Yes that’s right.
Just like row 1.
And the rows when you do not decrease you do as rows 2, 3, 4,

Sometimes I add a note by the typed pattern rows and I write in my own row numbers. Those rows you have ticked you can add numbers 1 to 10 or 5 to 14 in the margin. Hope this doesn’t add confusion, but then you an tick them off as you complete them.

It’s good to check your understanding.
You will soon get used to the instructions. You will learn lots making this sweater.

Great thanks for confirming that. It’s my first jumper and defiantly learning a lot!

The sleeve section says (both alike). Does this mean I have to knit four of these. Two goes to making a single sleeve?

Highly unlikely.
A sleeve is generally 1 knitted piece which is seamed together into a tube, or sleeve. The raglan edges will be seamed to the sweater body first and then the seam of sleeve and sweater.

If you have done one you just have one more to go.

Thanks. I guess I find it difficult at the moment to visualise how it’s going to be connected to the body. I think I get it.

The sleeve will kind of be folded in half with the cuff end up to the arm pit seamed and the raglan part (the narrower end) sewn to the front and back of the sweater.
I couldn’t find exactly the right video but I think this one helps, it starts at a point where one sleeve is joined and shows how the other is folded, she opens it and shows where it is seamed to the body.

Don’t try to follow every bit of it, don’t worry about how the sewing takes place, notmyet, but see how the different pieces come together.
Is it a cardigan or pullover you’re making?

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