Hi, I’m confused with this pattern: Keeping cont of pat, dec 1 st at neck edge on next 3 rows, then on following 2 alt rows. Does it mean the next 3 “neck edge” rows? That would mean alt rows too, wouldn’t it?
Obviously I’m a beginner and would appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.
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Hi yes, there’s a few people online, but you need to give it more than 5 minutes to answer you.
There aren’t ‘neck edge rows’, but the rows have edges at the neck. When you’re at the neck edge of the piece, dec there, every row for 3 rows. Then skip a row and dec every other row twice.
for all that help me…
sorry for the impatience, I was just having a little fun and learning the forums…cheers
so all the decreases are on the neck edge? Because it doesn’t say to skip a row. Thank you for all the help.
Usually they are unless there is a reason such as part of the design.
It would help answer your question if we knew what pattern you are using. A link is good, too. If you can’t do that then include a few lines of the part you are concerned with. (not the whole pattern)
Thank you Jan, I’ll post a few more lines!
It says " then on following 2 alt rows." The ‘alt’ rows means alternate rows which is the same as every other one. First you dec on 3 rows, then go to every other one. So like this…
1, dec
2, dec
3, dec
4, plain with no decrease
5, dec,
6, plain
7 dec
the pattern is not written like that…it’s more paragraph form…
[B]Shape Neck: Next row[/B]Cast off 10 sts. Pat. to end of row.
Work 1 row even in pat. Keeping cont. of pat, dec 1 st at neck edge on next 3 rows, then on following 2 alt rows. Thank you for your patience
ok, Thank you Jan. I think I got it
Thank you suzeeq for fixing that 
and the help. I’ll give it a go
ok, so when the pattern uses the word “following”, it means to knit a regular row? Referring to the pattern I posted.
I know it’s not written like that, I was just laying it out for you row by row.
Following means ‘after’; the clue to knit a plain row with no decs is in the words ‘following 2 alt rows’. Which translates into - after this, work the decs [I]every other row[/I] 2 times. So you do a dec row, then a plain row, a dec row, then a plain row.
Ok. Well I’ll work it that way. It just seemed weird that it would decrease both sides of the piece, then decide to decrease on one side… it makes it look sloppy and it doesn’t fit with the back piece because it never decreased on the back. Thanks again
Where does it say to decrease only one side?
From Sue’s text you can see rows 1, 2 and 3 are decreasing both sides, 5, 6 and 7 decrease only one side…
. It just seemed weird that it would decrease both sides of the piece, then decide to decrease on one side… it makes it look sloppy and it doesn’t fit with the back piece because it never decreased on the back.
When you say ‘sides’ do you mean RS and WS or right ‘edge’ and left ‘edge’? These are just the neck edge decreases, you may be doing something else completely at the sleeve/armhole edge. If you can give us a link to the pattern we can explain it to you easier.
Most patterns will do decreasing on only the RS of the piece, but sometimes you need a more rapid dec and you do them on both RS and WS for a couple rows, then go to just the RS rows.
it’s from my “I taught myself knitting book”…no link there…wow, I just googeld it and I found it on the web…here you go.http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=bernat%20softee%20baby%20jacket&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CHEQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.knitting-warehouse.com%2Ffree_knitting_patterns%2FBernat%2FSofteeBaby%2FBernat_SofteeBaby003_kn_hoodedbabyjacket.en_US.pdf&ei=cp8IUNG2GOTF2QXFrMi0Bw&usg=AFQjCNGLyonvDfENfv5rdtEsEBa1SVL7cg
Look at the shape neck section in the middle collumn
Oh - you mean both sides of the neck, the shoulders. Yes you do the same shaping on both shoulders at the neck edge. The directions are for doing them separately because you do the fronts separately; first the Right Front then the Left front, or whichever.