Selvedge and stitch increase in 1*1 rib Help!

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Hi,

I am currently making my first sweater (Erika Knight Kemp Town Sweater).

I am working the ribbing on the bottom of the front and am having some trouble with the pattern instructions. I am fine until I reach the 5 st selvedge bit (See bold below). I cannot find information anywhere online outlining how to do a 5 stitch selvedge. Would this just mean I do the selvedge in a knit stich? And also how on earth do I increases stitches whilst ribbing? Wont this mess up my patterning? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

The pattern states:

Front
Cast on 91(99:109:117) sts and work in rib as foll:
Next row: [K1, P1] to last st, K1.
Next row: [P1, K1] to last st, P1.
Next row (inc): Rib 5, M1, rib as set to last 5 sts, M1,
rib to end.
Cont in rib as set, working a 5 st selvedge edge at either
end and inc one st at both ends inside the selvedge edge,
as above, on every foll 4th row until 101(109:119:127) sts.
Work 3 rows straight.

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Welcome to the forum!


You can just about see the way to work this in the 3rd photo down on the Ravelry page.
Keep the 5 stitch edges in the rib pattern. Work the increase stitch at each end as a knit stitch when you do the M1. On the following row, work that increase stitch as either a knit or a purl depending on the rib.

Make sure that the increase stitch does not change the body of the rib. That may mean that you will have 2 knit sts next to each other at the M1 until the next row but that’s ok. Just be sure to keep the columns of knits and purls across the ribbing.

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Thank you so much ! I will give this a try.

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Unfortunately I’m still confused ! I’m sorry I’m sure it’s quite simple.

So… once I do the first lot of m1s as knit stitches, I end up with 2 knit stitches together just inside the selvedge. Do I just continue to work those as 2 knit stitches (2 purl on the wrong side) next to each other until the following 4th row where I increase again ?

This is what I tried but then I just ended up with multiple knit stitches together just inside the selvedge which looked odd. I’m just not sure I’m getting it.

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OK, great as far as working the increases as knit sts on the first row. On the next row however, work the increase as either a knit or a purl stitch, whichever will continue the ribbing. Figure out what that stitch should be on the WS row. That way the k1p1 rib will seem to grow out of the selvage sts.