[COLOR=“Red”]SQUARE 3:
Cast on 38 sts on needle size 5 mm / US 8 with Nepal. K 1 row from RS, K 1 row from WS, K 1 row RS and P 1 row from WS. [B]Now continue in M.3 with 1 garter st each side[/B] until square measures approx 1 cm / 3/8’’ less than square 1 (adjust to a half or full repeat). Now K 1 row from RS, K 1 row from WS, K 1 row RS and bind off from WS in K sts. [/COLOR]
Each row is 38 stitches, and the pattern is 8, so where are they talking about a garter stitch on each side?
OK that makes sense, but the pattern has 8 stitches in it, and if I do that 4 times it makes 32 stitches. Plus the one garter each, is 34. What do I do with the other 4 stitches, there are 38 across each row.
Think of your pattern as a 4 stitch repeat and repeat it 9 times. That gives you 36sts plus 2 edge sts for 38sts. So you would knit 4, purl 4 and repeat accross ending with knit 4.
Sorry, but won’t this affect the pattern as I go left to right? If I’m only doing 4, I have to alter that for the next row, as the pattern starts with 8.
This is way to intricate, for what I thought would be the easiest square.
Row 1 looks like k4, p4, k4 … ending with k4. When you turn to work row 2 it should be p4, k4, p4… ending the even row with p4.
If you start the first set of 4 rows with a row 1: k4, p4, k4 …ending with k4 then the second set row 1 will just start with p4, k4, p4 …ending with p4. Just watch the stitches and let them tell you what you should be doing. You want a checkerboard pattern here and it will shift every 4 rows.
