Hi all, I’m new here. I am a barely-intermediate knitter who has taken on the ENORMOUS task of knitting the VK Fall 06 cover sweater. I have the back completed (FINALLY) and have started on the sleeves, but now I am a little bit stumped. I could fudge through it, but I thought I might as well register here (since I’ve been lurking so long anyway) and see if any of you might be able to help me figure this out.
After completing the twisted rib for the cuffs of the sleeve, there is an increase row to set up the cable section. In this increase row, it says “[p1, inc p in next stitch] 3 times”. (There is also some instruction for doing the same type of thing with knit stitches, like “k1, inc k in next stitch”.)
What does it mean to “inc p in next stitch”?
Is it a make 1 but purling instead of knitting? Is it purling the next stitch twice? It just doesn’t seem that straightforward to me, because if I [p1, inc p in next stitch] then I am doing an increase that will affect the next stitch on the needle. So confused.
Has anyone else worked this pattern? If not, do any of you know what exactly those directions mean?
Thanks in advance!
I have not done this pattern, but I would interpret ‘inc p into next stitch’ as being the same as purl into front and back of same stitch. So you purl the stitch, don’t slip the original stitch off the left needle, then purl into the back of the same stitch, now slip the original stitch off the needle.
So the entire rows instructions: “[p1, inc p in next stitch] 3 times” means that you will (purl 1, then purl into front and back of next stitch) and you will repeat everything inside the brackets three times total.
Thanks for the reply, knitqueen, especially since it is totally not what I was picturing. I was confused because the concept of “inc p in next stitch” seemed odd to me if the next stitch was a knit, not a purl. If it did in fact mean I should pfb in the next stitch, I wish it would have just SAID pfb.
What I will do to be sure is to write it all out, and see if doing a pfb (or kfb where it says “inc k in next stitch”) will net me the correct number of stitches when I finish the row. I think I was just way too tired to do any sort of math when I was trying to decipher the pattern.
This is the first VK pattern I’ve knit… are they all “vague” like this? Or am I just not advanced enough to know that the instructions aren’t vague at all?
