Hi, I’m knitting a hat for my son, and I don’t understand what patt4 means when I’m shaping the crown of the hat. It’s a ribbed hat,
2x1 rib. The first row of the shaping is: patt4, p2tog,(patt4, p2tog) 13 times, k1, p0, 71 sts.
Please help me put these instructions into context!!!
Thanks in advance!
Well written like that I’m not sure. Do you have a link to the pattern? (Don’t post the entire pattern)
Without seeing the instructions, I’d take a wild guess that it means pattern 4 or keep in the established pattern for 4 stiches.
It means to work in the 2x1 rib pattern for 4 sts, then p2 tog, then work the next 4 sts as they appear in the rib pattern and p2tog, etc, all the way to the last stitch which is a k1.
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I think the pattern author is a Mathematician or a software engineer. 
Did you notice the “p0” in the ending of the row?
k1, p0, 71 sts.
A Math person would read that as p naught or purl naught. 
In context, the pattern is 3 sts long so two repeats would be 6 stitches. Patt4: follow pattern for 4 sts then next 2 (of 6) are p together. The instructions give this decrease pattern twice before telling you to repeat 13 times. 13+1 = 14 and 14 *5 (p2tog reduces from 6 to 5 sts in the 14 repeats.
Then the follow the k1, p pattern for the end of row as k1, p0.
Total for dec row is 71 sts
Now, either they are a mathematician, programmer, engineer, or simply OCD with the k[COLOR=“Blue”]x[/COLOR],p[COLOR=“Blue”]y[/COLOR] pattern repetitions. [/COLOR]
[COLOR=#330099]Now, either they are a mathematician, programmer, engineer, or simply OCD with the k[COLOR=Blue]x[/COLOR],p[COLOR=Blue]y[/COLOR] pattern repetitions.[/COLOR]
No, I think you are, translating into a mathematical equation. Which I didn’t really understand (could be the headache) but I did understand the pattern as written.
Did I really do that math in Sept. '09?!
Ordinarily I like to revisit my old posts because I occasionally read one and ask myself, “what was I thinking?”
Here I also want to ask what is a 2x1rib and how does it add up to 4 stitches in a pattern repeat?
@suzeeq your headache has become contagious.
Hi there.
A 2x1 rib is knit 2, p1 and is not a 4 stitch repeat. What do the whole row read and why do think there’s 4 sts in the repeat?