Please Help Identify the Stitches/Pattern Used Here

#1

Hello! I’m new to this forum, and found it because I have some difficulty with a sweater pattern that I started knitting many years ago, and returned to complete it recently. Unfortunately, when I try to follow the pattern I believe I was using, it doesn’t knit up the same as it did before. So, I must be doing something wrong, but I can’t work out what. I’ve attached photos of the right side of the knitting that I’d completed, as well as the wrong side. Can anyone tell me what combination of stitches would give me the pictured result?

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Edited to add: These are the two rows that form the pattern:

  • First row (RS): P2, *yb, sl 1, yd, P2; repeat from * to
    end.
  • Second row: K2, *P1, K2; repeat from * to end.

I currently have 91 stitches on my needle, which means the pattern doesn’t work out evenly, but I’m not sure how I handled it. It does affect the appearance of the pattern quite a bit. I tried knitting a swatch that did work out evenly (ie. I could complete the pattern sequence without leftover stitches to deal with at the end of rows), but the result was that the reverse side looked like stocking stitch, which is different from the way the reverse of my knitting looks.

#2

Welcome to KH. It might be broken rib.
https://www.dontbesuchasquare.com/broken-rib-knitting-stitch/

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#3

Thank you. :slight_smile:
I had a look at the link you shared, but it is different. I’ve added more information to my question, in case that helps.

#4

Welcome to KnittingHelp!
What is the name of your pattern and designer? It’ll help us answer your post.

Nice knitting and pattern. The photos certainly look like half fisherman’s rib or brioche. Neither match to the rows you quote. Here’s a video for half fisherman’s rib.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf0h04GhVxg

Should the first row be “yd” or yf?
First row (RS): P2, *yb, sl 1, yd, P2; repeat from * to
end.

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#5

Thank you. There’s a list of abbreviations with the pattern, which has yd - yarn forward.

This is a very old pattern which I got from a 1991 South African magazine, called You. The yarn used in the pattern is Pingouin Memoires. I’m using Patons Diana Brushed Chunky.

I’ve attached the photo from the magazine here, in case that helps.

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Looking at it again, it does look different from what I’ve knitted. It seems very likely that I made a mistake in my interpretation of the pattern from the start, but if so, I do like the result. I just need to figure out what I did!

Edited to add:
I just watched that video, and it certainly looks very similar to what I have knitted! I’ll try knitting a sampler in half fisherman’s rib to see if it is, in fact, the same. If so, it’s a mystery to me where I would have got it from, as the pattern I’m trying to follow was with the pieces and yarn that I’m using. I had completed the back and was at the start of the v-neck on the front, although I’ve pulled out a number of rows in my attempts to get the stitches right. After knitting and pulling out the same rows 4 or 5 times I decided to knit a sampler instead.

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#6

On this page they have a yarn over alternative to the knit in the stitch below method used in the video:

Row 1 (RS): P1, (brk, p1) to end.
Row 2 (WS): K1, (sl1yo, k1) to end.

I’ll try this, first as is and if that doesn’t look right, with two stitches between the slip stitches, to see if that works. I’ve just got to figure out the brk stitch!

#7

Fisherman’s rib and Brioche produce the same result. The same is true for the half fisherman’s rib and half Brioche. It just depends on which technique you prefer, the knit into the stitch below or the yarn over.
https://www.interweave.com/article/knitting-feature/fishermans-rib-vs-brioche-stitch/
https://www.briochestitch.com/archives/onecolorbrioche/terminology-and-abbreviations

Good looking classic sweater. Thank you for the photo.

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#8

Thanks so much for the help. The Half Fisherman’s Rib is definitely what I was using for the pullover. I’m so glad that I can complete it now without any issues. :grinning:

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#9

It really looks lovely, and so worth finishing and wearing.

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#10

The horizontal break was caused by repeating the same row twice. Such as first row then first row again.

It seems like a modification of a p2,k1 rib. It makes me think of the Yarn Harlet’s one row scarf because of the one stitch offset of the RS verses WS rib pattern. The slip stitch causes the knit rib on the front to be extended to two rows as one lager stitch.

It also looks like you used a larger needle or looser tension for the newer section.

I hope you find my observations helpful.

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#11

Thanks for your feedback :). I actually think I was following a completely different pattern altogether as, sometime after posting my question, I realised that the back of the sweater, which I had completed many years ago, was actually knitted for a raglan sweater! Why this pattern was with the sweater pieces is beyond me! lol

Anyway, I no longer have the pattern I was using, so I plan to unpick the back to the start of the decrease point for the sleeves, and then follow the pattern I have with regard to the instructions for shaping, to complete it. But, I will do so in the Half Fisherman’s rib, which appears to be what the original pattern called for.

I do think you’re right about the needle size, though. While I’m using the size recommended for the yarn and in the pattern I have (size 6), the Half Fisherman’s rib appears to knit up bigger than the original pattern does (or, perhaps I just knit looser than average). :woman_shrugging:t2:

I’m rather curious to see how the end result fits. I’ve no idea which size I had been knitting, even, as the stitches on the needle didn’t match any of the sizes given. There’s been a fair amount of (somewhat) educated guesswork involved in trying to complete this sweater! lol

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