Wonderful Wallaby vague pattern instructions Hell...HELP!

#1

I’m knitting my first real sweater for my first real grandchild due December of this year – I REALLY want to finish it! I started with the sleeves and finished the rib section when I came across the next instruction and started to hyperventilate: “Next row: Begin St st and inc evenly arnd to 42 sts; change to larger dp or circular needles.”

So…does this next row (currently 30 sts) JUMP to 42 every “even” numbered stitch? Or, is this a gradual increase every even numbered row (24 rows) until I hit 42 stitches on the needle? (WTH?!)

This kind of stuff is so incredibly frustrating to a “barely intermediate” knitter such as myself.

ANY INSIGHTS YOU VETERAN KNITTERS FAMILIAR WITH THIS PATTERN (“WONDERFUL WALLABY HOODED SWEATER”) CAN OFFER WOULD BE IMMENSELY APPRECIATED.

Thanks ever so – Tawny :knitting:

#2

On the next round, increase from 30 to 42 sts. Evenly means the the increases are approximately equally spaced along the round and not all bunched in one area. So it would be increasing every 2 or 3 sts. You could do a knit front and back for this increase.

#3

Put the incs evenly [I]spaced[/I] on the next row only, then ‘continue’ on the 42 sts.