Hi all, I am desperate for help! Can anyone help me figure out what I’ve done wrong in my knitting pattern?!
First pic of the blue top is what the side of this top is supposed to look like (ribbed up until the increases),
Second pic is what I did (accidentally all knit stitch).
Last pic is the bit of the pattern that this pertains to.
I can’t figure out where the ribbing would go?? I’ve created a long chunk of knit stitches where there should be ribbing, but it seems to me like in order for there to be ribbing, I would have to knit into purl stitches and purl into knit stitches?
I’ve already gone back and frogged and just can’t figure out how to “continue the rib” as pattern suggests given these M1s.
Welcome!
It’s going to be a lovely top. What you can do is make the increases as Make one knit or Make one purl sts. (Note the use of the Make one purl in the instructions.) Make sure to work a purl or knit if needed to keep the p2, k3 rib.
If that Make one purl is too difficult, work the increases as knit sts and on the next row, work a purl if necessary to keep the rib pattern.
Hi there, I did do the purl increases but after the first 6 rows, since the pattern says to repeat 1st and 2nd row (just knits) through the 6th row. Rows 1-6 were all knit increases, then 7-12 were the purl increases, right? Won’t these first six rows naturally create a long line of knit increases rather than the ribbing pattern? I’m so confused
When you make the increase consider where it will end up in the rib pattern. You can use the rib on the front or back as a guide. Use the pattern increase rows as written but look at your knitting to decide whether to work a knit or a purl.
Hello. I’m doing a similar rib increase on the top I’m making.
You’re right that the first 6 rows make a line of knits rather than k3 p3 but because of the direction of the increase (the lean) it creates a look where the strap curves around the armhole soap lthough this line of 6 knits has no purl to separate it the angle of the stitches makes a visual line/curve separating the rib pattern from the edging rib.
When you do the next 6 lines you need the increases to be purls (you have knits in yours so woll need to frog back to where the increases started - do you know how to put in a life line to help with this?). As you work these next 6 rows (rows 7 to 12) the pattern will first add a purl between the 3 knits of the body and the 3 knits of the edge rib, then it will add another purl making 2 purls between the knit stitches and finally it will have 3 purls and be back in the regular rib pattern.
I find it really helpful to have a marker on the needle where the increase occurs. For you this is 6 stitches from the beginning and 6 stitches from the end of the row. All increases take place inside the markers (on the body) and these new stitches need to follow the pattern established in the body - then the 6 stitches outside of the maker follow their own pattern for the edges. I see the marker as a stutter in the overall rib pattern ie the rib doesn’t work “across” the marker but instead it works before it, stutters at the marker but works again after it.
At the beginning of the row, work 6
Slip marker
Stop, look ahead at the body and consider what stitch needs to come before these next stitches to keep the pattern correct, make a knit or purl increase based on what now needs to appear as the new stitch.
Then work across to the end marker.
Stop, consider the stitches just worked, what needs to come after it to make the rib pattern correct?
Make one as a knit or purl as needed to keep the body correct.
Slip marker
Work last 6 as presented.
I hope this helps some and not add more confusion.
For what it’s worth I really love the style you’ve created with the wide panel of knits, it’s very sophisticated looking and you might want to just continue with what you have which is not the pattern but possibly even better than the pattern?
