Pattern Help

Good Morning, I have started a pattern and one of the abbreviations is Casting on a ‘Seam St’, never seen this before. I did google it but didn’t help me with the pattern.
It reads ‘When casting on a ‘seam st’ do not inc by knitting into front and back of stitch. Cast on stitch, place on left hand needle, then work as first st of row as indicated.
LEFT FRONT
Next Row: Knit to last 6 sts, place rem 6 sts onto a stitch holder
Next Row: Cast on one st (seam st) purl to end

I did what I thought was right until I got to the end where I had done all the decreasing, then it read:
Cast off one st (seam st) slip back onto left hand needle and K2tog.
Fasten off.

I couldn’t do that as I didn’t have the seam st as I had included it in with the rest of the rows. I do hope all this makes sense!

I’ve included a photo, it may help to see what I e knitted.

What is the name of your pattern and designer?
The seam stitch is probably meant to help with the attachement of the button or buttonhole band (those 6sts at the end of row that are on hold for now). The pattern should have told you to decrease between the seam stitch and the body of the left front. But it didn’t.

You can still work this by using the edge stitch at the left front on the decrease section for seaming the band. Keep good notes so you can work the right front in the same way.
The alternative is to take the knitting out down to the beginning of the decreases at the front edge and then rework the decreases one stitch in from the edge. That one stitch will be the seam stitch.

This isn’t a critical mistake and can be left as is or reworked. In any case, your knitting looks lovely and even for this cardigan.

I’m also unsure how to do the seam st, don’t really understand it that well.

It’s from ‘little babies including premature sizes’ and it is design six. I’m unsure what to do, I feel inclined to undo it all to where I start on the pattern with the seam stitch, I always like to follow the pattern correctly and as I have the other side to do it may be best to start again. I’ll keep you posted if I finally finish it!

The seam stitch is just that, a stitch that will be used as part of the seam or join. In this case, it’ll be part of the join of the button band to the body of the sweater.
If you want to reknit part of the sweater that would be a fine choice. You don’t have to start from the beginning however. If you maintained the extra stitch up until the decreases at the front edge, then you only need take the knitting out to that point. When you reknit keep the decreases one stitch in from that edge. So on the left front knit side you would knit to 3sts from the front edge, k2tog then knit the seam stitch (the extra stitch).
If it helps you could place a marker between the seam stitch and the body as a reminder.

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The seam stitch is just a normal stitch that will be used later on for seaming. The pattern is telling you what the stitch is for, not how to do it, if you know what I mean.

So you are not “doing a seam stitch”, you are casting on a normal stitch that will be used later for seaming.

As salmonmac said, a marker will be very helpful.

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