Please can anyone help me with this!
I am knitting the firs size on Sirdar 5921 lace cardigan and cannot understand a part of the instructions.
I know I am trying to decrease, but feel that the increasing counts it out. This paragraph is probably the key, but I don’t quite understand it:
Note when increasing stitches within pattern, the increased stitches and the stitch used will count as one stitch when decreasing, casting off and when number of stitches are stated at end of row.
This is where I am up to in the pattern:
4 rows to the pattern
Row 1 starts with 94 stitches increases to 106 stitches
Row 2 starts with 106 stitches remains at 106 stitches
Row 3 starts with 106 stitches decreases to 94 stitches
Row 4 starts wit 94 stitches and remains at 94 stitches
Row 13 (Row 1 of pattern): Dec 1st at each end of 13th and every following 12th Row to 88 stitches (I believe this first row decreases the stitch count to 104 stitches).
Row 14 starts with 104 stitches and remains at 104 stitches (just with the pattern of Row 2)
Row 15 starts with 104 stitches and decreases to 92 stitches (just with the pattern of Row 3)
Row 16 (Row 4 of pattern): Inc 1 st at each end of 16th and every following 12th row to 94 stitches.
As far as I can see I am decreasing two st on row 13 and increasing two st on row 16, so they cancel eachother out.
Then reading the opening paragraph I wonder if Row 16 I count the increased stitch and the next one as one stitch instead of two, but why would you increase to knit two together on the next row?