Problem with Lace Scarf pattern

#1

I’m trying to knit the Shimmering Lace Scarf from the 2005 Knitting Pattern A Day calendar (Friday, May 27). I checked their web site and I don’t find any corrections for this pattern but the way I read it–which may very well be wrong as I’m not that experienced–it won’t work.

The first row is as follows:
k1, (k1, k2tog x3, yo, k1 x5, yo, k2tog x3) repeat ( ) two more times, k1.

I’m not familiar with the “x3” and “x5”. I guessed that they mean to repeat the stitch immediately preceding by that number of times (eg. k2tog three times). If that’s right then I’m losing stitches on each row 1 and since the remaining rows of the pattern are just basically knit and purl rows I’m going to end up with a triangle rather than a 12" x 64" scarf.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

#2

How many stitches do you start with?

#3

If you punctuated it differently, you would balance out the inc and dec, but I don’t know how it would look, but the pattern would be balanced:

k1 (k2tog)x3, (yo, k1)x5, yo, (k2tog)x3

#4

Hi Ingrid,

Thank you for replying.

After I posted I thought I probably should have included the number of stitches–oops. It starts with 56 stitches.

I’ve attached a file showing what the pattern looks like. Does this seem reasonable for your suggested correction?

Thanks again!

#5

I believe it does! The way I drew it out I put a line like / for k stitches, an X for the k2togs, and an O for yo’s and the drawing of one repeat looked like this

/XXXO/O/O/O/O/OXXX/XXXO/O/O/O/O/OXXX/XXXO/O/O/O/O/OXXX/

That kind of looks like it, do you think? But it only comes to 55 :thinking:

#6

You did it! There should be an additional “/” (knit stitch) at the beginning of the row.

Thank you so much. I’m off to frog a few rows and proceed with my friends new scarf!!

Guess I’d better let Accord Publishing know they need another correction page.

Thanks again, Ingrid.

#7

Guess I’d better let Accord Publishing know they need another correction page.

I’ll say! Hope it works out for you!

#8

Maybe you should change your tag to “Trust the pattern–NOT!” :wink:

#9

Or at least “usually”!