Not sure about this pattern now

#1

I am working on a ribbed cowl. I do not have a picture, as I am using the pattern from a book. Anyway I was to cast on 140 stitches and work the following rib in rounds k2, p2 for 35 rounds. Next comes a decrease round which is {K2, p1, K2tog, skpo,p1, k2, rib 10} 7 times. 126 stitches. I understand what I am to do, but when it says rib 10 does that mean to go back to the K2, P2, 10 times? Because if this is the case, the ribs are off, I will be purling where I was knitting and knitting where I was purling unless you think it is supposed to change now? I would think if they wanted me to rib p2,K2, instead the pattern would have said that. It is a cowl that fits over your shoulders and then turns into a turtleneck, so the decrease is for the turtleneck to start. Am I making myself clear? Thanks for any help.
Ginny

#2

I would follow the rib pattern as the stitches present themselves – since you have a p2 k2, that’s what I would do – but not 10 times – you will rib over 10 stitches – p2 k2 p2 k2 p2. Doing this:

{K2, p1, K2tog, skpo,p1, k2, rib 10}

seven times gives you the 126 stitches you need after your decreases.

Hope this makes sense!

#3

Oh thank you! I would have ribbed 10 times! I am so bad at reading patterns

#4

When a pattern says to rib X sts' it means to do the ribbing pattern over X sts, not X times. Same thing withpattern X sts’, for a stitch pattern.

#5

Do you also think I should do the ribs as the appear rather than going back to the k2, p2? This has me so confused…sorry to seem so dense!
Ginny

#6

Definitely keep the rib pattern going, regardless of whether that means starting with the k2 or the p2. :slight_smile:

#7

Since you are continuing the rib pattern as you already established, just continue to knit the knits and purl the purls. P2, K2 is still a rib pattern and your instructions don’t indicate that you change that. Besides, if you look at your pattern before it says rib 10 there is a k2 – then afterwards when you start the progression again, it’s another k2 – so it reads like this:

{K2, p1, K2tog, skpo,p1, [B]k2[/B], rib 10 (p2, k2, p2, k2, p2)} and then when you start again you go back to the k2 at the beginning of the brackets.

Make sense now?

#8

Again, thank you! I learn so much on here!
Ginny

#9

Sometimes it just takes following the pattern stitch by stitch instead of trying to figure out how it works in your head. Very often, it works itself out.