Toe-Up Knee Socks - Afternoon Delight by Silvia Harding

Happy Easter, Everyone! Well, I finished my top down Knee socks the other day and started the above. I learned the Turkish Cast-on, THANKS TO YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!
This pattern is in the book called “The Joy of Sox”
Here goes: I had the 10 sts. on each of the tips of my needle = 20 sts.
The pattern reads -
Round 1: knit
Then it goes to Toe Increases - Round 1 (Increase):: *K1, LR, K8, LL, K1; repeat from * once more - 22 sts. I count 24 sts here
Next, the pattern reads: Round 2: Knit
Then, repeat last 2 rounds, working 2 additional stitches between increases on every round 2 until a total of 60 sts.

Maybe, since I am new to toe-up, I am looking at this incorrectly, but I have tried and tried to figure it out.

I did the Turkish Cast-on, then knitted one complete round on the tips of the needles and then started the increasing, but after the first row, I had 12 on the one tip and 12 on the bottom, but I didn’t know how to go from there, because it says only do the extra increases on the 2 round. It doesn’t mention Round 1 and how to do it.
Please help.

Are you working magic loop or on dpn or ??? For magic loop I increase 2 st on each needle every other round. The in between rounds are knit even (no increases). I don’t use dpn so don’t know which needles would get the increases but it’s knit a round even, knit an increase round no matter which method you’re using. HTH

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It looks to me like an error in the pattern.
I can’t make socks but the numbers don’t add up on the increase round and it looks like the rounds have been mis-named.

If you look on ravekry (link above) there is a link to errata which doesn’t work (althiugh worth a look if you have this book as there are 3 errata for patterrns available asmpdf download from the link). However there is a note on the ravekrynoage to see the comment tab for errata.
Someone has mentioned the incorrect count for the first increase round, as you have, and there are some more comments you can see and add a correction to your book.
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/afternoon-delight-2/comments

As GrumpyGramma has said, alternate between a knit round and increase round and it should work out
Round 1 knit
Round 2 increase
Repeat last two rows until 60 stitches

Hope this helps.
There may be a way to contact the designer /publisher if there are lots of errors but you might get by with the ravelry notes as it seems others have managed.
Of course you can ask here too.

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Settled I think! I kept the single circular needle for this and now I got it. I will be changing to dpns, though as the circular needle is too short to continue with magic loop (if that is indeed what I was doing). Pattern wants a total of 59 sts. And that is what I have now, yeah!

Now to get on the dpns and start the 2nd toe.

Someone said to check for errata and ai did do that and found 2 one of which was already corrected on Row 5 of the lace pattern and another regarding a word error on the written directions and the Chart.

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YAY!!! There’s nothing like getting things figured out. Are you using beads?

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Decided against knitting these because the yarn (knitpicks Capretta) is very fuzzy and as such won’t show much even with lace. Tried a different pattern using cables and frogged that one as well. Now just working plain stocking stitch knee sock following the Winwick Mom Knee sock 4-ply only having a 1 ½” cuff instead of 3 inch.
I plan on doing the Afternoon Delight with some other yarn, but not going to use beads.

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