Raglan increase help

Hi all,

I’m knitting a top-down sweater with a raglan increase, increasing every other row by 8 sts for 18 rows. I’m supposed to end up with 188 sts before continuing to knit the yoke in pattern with no more increases until the sleeves. I have 8 sts more than I’m supposed to, so I seem to have done an extra increase row, but have NO idea where. I’m only two rows past the increase section, so it’s not an obvious mistake yet.

Could I decrease on the next row to fix this? I know ripping back until I have the right amount of stitches is the ACTUAL way to fix this, but it’s just not gonna happen.

Thanks!

Welcome to KH!
What is the name of your pattern?
You might start the first round of the pattern and decrease the 8sts at the same time. There’s likely to be places is the pattern where a k2tog will be disguised in the overall pattern (colorwork or a pattern stitch). I wouldn’t place the decreases at the raglan lines however as they might be more noticeable there.

Thanks!

It’s called Crossing Games Baby Sweater, found on Ravelry. Unfortunately I don’t see any k2tog anywhere in the pattern. It’s seed stitch on the top half and cables of the bottom, so there doesn’t seem to be an opportunity to naturally work a decrease in.

Any good advise on a less visible decrease style other than k2tog?


That’s adorable.
No, there won’t be any decreases in the yoke. What I mean is work in seed stitch across the first pattern row. K1,p1, and then work a k2tog followed by p1,k1,p1 etc. You would effectively substitute a k2tog for a k1 stitch in the seed stitch pattern. Scatter these k2togs around the yoke, maybe 2 in front and 2 in back and 2 each in the sleeves.
This will only work easily in the first seed stitch round as you would need double decreases to keep the succeeding rounds in seed stitch.

If you’re already in the seed stitch pattern and because it’s a baby sweater, you could continue with the 8 extra sts until the separation of the sleeves and then use some of the extra sts as part of the sleeves. Since it’s a baby sweater size isn’t so critical and a little bigger (~1 inch) is better than smaller.

Ah, okay that makes sense. Thank you so much! This is my first raglan increase sweater and WOW I am learning a lot.

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