Hi,
I’m not sure how to interpret the instructions written in paragraph form. I’m making a sweater that buttons in the front and am working on one side of the front. The instructions switched from listing instructions by row to the following:
Bind off 2 sts at beg of next row. Dec 1 st every 2 rows, 2 times, then dec 1st every 4 rows, 2 times. At the same time at neck edge dec 1st every 2 rows 8 times, then 1 st every 4 rows, 4 times.
I thought I understood, but when I got done the shoulder piece on the front of the sweater didn’t meet with the shoulder piece on the back of the sweater…it was about 1 ½” short.
I’m guessing I’m not knitting enough rows in between the “# times” statements. I hope this isn’t too confusing, but this is how I wrote out each row on a piece of paper before I started knitting:
Row 1 – Bind off 2 sts, ……
Row 2 – Dec 1, ………….Dec1
Row 3 – ……………………
Row 4 – Dec1, ……………Dec1
Row 5 – Dec1, ……………
Row 6 - ………………….Dec 1
Row 7 - ………………….
Row 8 - ………………….Dec 1
Row 9 – Dec1, ……………
Row 10 - ………………….Dec 1
Row 11 - ………………….
Row 12 - ………………….Dec 1
Row 13 - ………………….
Row 14 - ………………….Dec 1
Row 15 - ………………….
Row 16 - ………………….Dec 1 [end 8 times]
Row 17 - ………………….Dec 1 [start 4 times]
Row 18 - ………………….
Row 19 - ………………….
Row 20 - ………………….Dec 1
Row 21 - ………………….
Row 22 - ………………….
Row 23 - ………………….Dec 1
Row 24 - ………………….
Row 25 - ………………….
Row 26 - ………………….Dec 1
Should I have added 7 knit rows after the [end 8 times] and before the [start 4 times].
The way I interpret it, I don’t think that I would have made the decrease on the first row of the every two or every four. I would have knitted a row then decreased on the second row, and knitted 3 rows and decreased on the fourth row.
