I’m at the point of my knitting to where I am about to knit the right front of a vest. I have completed the left front and the pattern calls for reversing all shapings. Can I assume that this means that where the left front is saying in shaping the armhole, ( P25, then P2tog,P2tog, P1)that for the right front, I start with P2tog,P2tog,P1, and then P25?
Any clarification would be welcome!
Thanks a bunch,Barbara:knitting:
You generally reverse the shaping by doing it on the other side. So if your left front - P25, then P2tog,P2tog, P1 - is done on the RS, you do the same thing on the WS, possibly doing the sts as knits.
I would do what you described, because I am simple minded, with one change: p2tog slants to the right on the knit side. If you are trying to mirror you need to have the decreases slant the other way on the other side. (On the purl side: Slip two stitches knitwise, one at a time, return them to the left needle keeping them twisted. Purl these two stitches together through the back loops.)
Have a thoroughly confused you?
OMG! This is bringing me back to my first vest! My pattern actually said to do the left (and right) front the same as for the back so, duuhhh, I decreased on BOTH SIDES!! I was in way over my head as it was, I had to frog back miles! I actually didn’t pick it up again for a year!
It’s done now and I love it! With all the help from these wonderful knitters you will be much better off than I was!!
Good luck!