Hi! My name is Savanna. I’m what I would call “a just-below-intermediate” level knitter. I’m knitting a baby sweater for a friend of mine and I’m really struggling with the wording of the pattern I’m following. It works from the bottom up, so I garter-stitched until the piece was 6”, and then moved on to the sleeves step. It says the following:
“Make two sleeves the same:
With spare #11 needles, cast on 17 sts with Color A, knit 2 rows
With color B, knit 2 rows, with color A knit 2 rows
AT THE SAME TIME starting on the 6th row, increase 1 stitch on either end of last row of color A, 4 times every 4 rows.
25 sts.
Work until sleeve measures 6” ending with row 2 of color A.
With color B, bind off 2 sts at the beginning of the next 2 rows.
Join color A to the right side of the body, knit 13 sts.”
It then has a long list of slip stitching which I think I understand.
I’ve never knitted a sweater bottom up before, but am I wrong to be confused by this? Should I knit individual sleeves separate from the body and then join them onto the body? Or am I knitting the sleeves directly from the body? And a potential problem: I’m using 4 colors instead of 2. Might that cause trouble with me reading the pattern? It hasn’t so far, but the sleeves seem more complicated.
Please help! I’ll try to include photos for reference but it’s been years since I used a forum!
