New to knitting

Hi all when knitting a pattern and it says YFWD K3, do I only bring the yarn forward for the first stitch or do I bring it forward on all three stitches?

Thanks in advance

Rebecca

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Hello
Just bring the yarn forward once. Then knit 3.

Don’t hesitate to ask more questions as you learn.

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Welcome to KH. Also, a yfwd before a knit is the same as yo, k1 or yo, k3.

A video for more than you want to know about yarn overs.

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Welcome to the forum!
Can you tell us the name of your pattern and designer?
It’s likely as Creations posted but just to be sure can you quote exactly the row or even partial row from the pattern for context? Don’t give us more than a row or two due to designer copyright.

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Continuing the discussion from New to knitting:

It’s birch creative April baby set. Iive in new zealand so could be different?

3rd row - *K3, K2tog, yfwd, K3, rep from * to last 1 st

4th row - K4, purl to end

I wasnt sure as that means I would knit one with yfwd then 2 normal knit, then 3 normal knit. Which made me think are the last 3 all supposed to be yfwd, otherwise this makes them the same as the first 3 stitches in the row apart from the first yfwd stitch? If you get what I mean hahahaha. It’s a babies cardigan and has patterning on bottom like little flower holes and they dont seem to be quite right? Also just to double check to pssso I slip 1, then K2tog, then pass slipped stitch over the K2tog?

Thanks so much

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Rather than thinking of a yarn forward belonging to the next knit stitch (it is often shown in tutorials as being performed with a knit stitch following but that knit stitch is not part of the yarn forward), it makes more sense to think of it as a maneuver performed between stitches.

In the pattern row you have a k2tog which decreases by 1 stitch and a yfwd which increases by 1 stitch. This balances the stitches on the row resulting in the same number by the end of the row.

Some times the repeat sections in patterns aren’t broken up the way I would personally think they could be which might make more sense (to me), it just depends who wrote the pattern and how they chose to repeat it.

Whilst the repeat results in a group of 6 stitches being knit the designer might have felt it made more sense to think of each pattern repeat section as beginning and ending in k3 and with the dec/inc in the centre of these stitches, making little eyelets.

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Thankyou so much, this explains it perfectly :purple_heart:

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From another Bex, welcome to the most helpful forum you will ever meet!!!

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