Hi Guys. I have just started sweater no 27 my favourite things knitwear and am having a problem with row no 7 of the first 10 rows. It says to sl1 pulwise with the yarn at back then knit 1 and slip stitch over but this means I am losing half my stitches. Am I reading it wrongly?
That’s indeed a decrease. Could you post the line, exactly as written in the pattern please.
Is this your pattern?
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Have you read the following row? Is there perhaps a series of increases which will balance out these decreases?
HI, I was hoping that was the case but it just says purl to end. I can’t see anything in ravelry projects that says there’s anything wrong which makes me think I’m reading it wrongly
Can you quote exactly the row with the decrease and maybe the row before and the row after? The garter stitch rows before and after the pattern stitch seem to be worked without increase or decrease so it’s probably the rows between that balance out the pass slipped stitch over.
It’s a very clever pattern stitch and a lovely sweater.
Perhaps this a “slip one purl wise, yarn over k1” i.e. a brioche stitch? Now I’ve read the pattern I can see this is a way to make a hole then on the next row you do a yarn over where the gap is which you knit as a stitch and work as pattern in the following row. Hope this helps