Good Morning
I haven’t knitted for years and just decided to start again but am a little confused when I get to a certain part in the row🙄I have high lighted in green where I get confused.
Could someone explain.
Thank you😄
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Welcome to the forum and welcome back to knitting!
The highlighted section is part of the previous direction in parentheses.
(k2tog) twice,
(k1,yfwd, k1, yfwd, k1) into the next st
then (k2tog) twice.
The increase in the next stitch increases 4sts and balances our the k2tog decreases.
Here’s a video for the (k1,yfwd, k1, yfwd, k1) into the next st:
What is the name of your pattern and designer?
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Good afternoon
And thank you for your reply.
I have tried to follow your instructions but for some reason at the end of the row I have six stitches left when I should have four.
So obviously I am doing something wrong.
I have high lighted the part again.
So I am doing K4,*(K2tog) twice,(K1,yfwd K1,yfwd k1. *(K2tog) twice (k1, yfwd, K1)
Yfwd. Until the end of the row and left with six but should be four.
The pattern is Hayfield baby blossom chunky 4676.
Thank you for you help.
I am confused. 
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Hayfield Baby Blossom Chunky is the yarn, Blanket 4676 is the pattern. You’re doing the garter stitch one?
Are you sure you cast on the correct number? 143 stitches minus the 4 at each end = 135, which divided by the 9 stitches of the pattern is 15 pattern repeats, so the numbers in the pattern are correct.
All I can think of is that you miss one set of (k2tog) twice, which would account for the 2 extra stitches. Maybe the very last one? It would be easy to think you’re finished after the yarn fwd section.
If that’s not where you missed a k2tog, maybe go through and put markers after the first 4 stitches, then every 9 stitches until the end. The markers will represent the * in the pattern, and you’ll work the pattern stitches between each set of markers.
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If this is what you are doing then it’s not quite right.
After the initial k4 the repeat starts:
There is a k2tog done twice , 4 sts used
Then sts worked into a single stitch, 1 st used
Then a k2tog done twice again , 4 sts used
Total for the repeat 9 sts
In your written repeat you’ve missed out the second lot of k2tog twice so if this is what you’ve been working then this is where it has gone astray.
The markers placed as colocro decribes will help.
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