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:roflhard: A one stitch hat!
Mike, just put a toll free number on your knitting patterns like so many products do these days.
For help with one stitch patterns, please call 1-888-426-3862 or 1-888-IAM-DUMB.
Since “pictures are worth a thousand words” it can take a lot of word to describe the steps of a pattern in a way that is concise enough to publish yet complete enough to only be completed in the desired way.
knitcindy has already spelled it out quite well. But even so, I will still give you another view of it.
I always think of patterns as formulas. Each row/round has up to four parts:
Row means you are working back and forth (mostly flat except where inc or dec create shaping), with an outside facing (right side) of the fabric and an inside facing (wrong side).
Rounds mean you are working in a round, either a tube shape or a flat circular or spiral shape.
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[li]“Row/round name or number” followed by the “:” colon symbol. [/li]{“Decrease row 1” in the pattern}
[li]“Beginning stitches if needed.” [/li]{K2 in the pattern}
[li]“(Repeated pattern in the middle) with how many repeats.” {The author may use parentheses () or brackets or asterisk * to mark off the repeated stitch pattern.}[/li]{the “[knit 2 together, knit 2] 16 (17) times” in the pattern}
[li]“End stitches of row/round if needed.”[/li]{knit 2 together, knit 1}
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Examples:
Stockinette stitch knit across the RS (right side) and purl evenly across the WS. (Reverse ST ST is knit WS and purl RS.)
Garter stitch is knit the RS and knit the WS. (Would you call it reverse garter stitch if you Purl across both RS and WS?)
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