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help with reading a pattern
This is for a crochet sweater but the confusion isn't in the crochet
technique, it is in the pattern so you knitters may be able to answer my question too. I'm crocheting a lovely cable cardigan. A Leisure Arts pattern (Classic Crocheted Cardigans). As with most patterns, there are instructions for three sizes. I'm doing the largest size. It will be easier if I give the instructions for the first three rows: "CH 74 {79-84} loosly. ROW 1: DC in fourth ch from hook and in each ch across: 72 {77-82} sts. ROW 2: (right side): Ch 3 (counts as first dc, now and throughout), turn; dc in next dc, work Cable *dc in next 4 {5-6} dc, work cable; repeat from * across to last 2 sts, dc in last 2 sts: 6 cables. Row 3: Ch 3, turn: dc in next dc, work BPdc around next 8 FPtr, *dc in next 4 {5-6} dc, work BPdc around next 8 FPtr; repeat from * acros to last dc, dc in last dc." Now with the extra stitches I chained at the beginning I do have 6 cables but I have 8 dc after the last cable. This seemed fine while working row 2 because I did my 6 dc and dc in the last two. Now row 3 has neglected the extra dc I put in for the size change. Do I just dc over them and work the BPdc around the FPtr as directed? Will the cables look off center because they start 2 stitches from one side and 8 stitches from the other side? It seems like an oops but this is the most complicated sweater I have crocheted yet. Thanks, Laurie Washougal, WA |
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Hi!
I had to read through that several times before I figured where they were putting the extra stitches from the other sizes (I kept missing it)! OK - your cables should stay centered, no matter what size you do - the trick is that in each larger size the cables get 1 stitch further apart. .. . the trick is in the repeat part, after * see you work 2 'extra' stitches on the largest size inbetween each cable - there's where your 10 extra stitches should disappear to. For all sizes there are 2 dc on each side. Let me know if this doesn't make sense, I can try to resay it another way. Good luck - looks like a fun sweater. Sonya Laurie wrote: This is for a crochet sweater but the confusion isn't in the crochet technique, it is in the pattern so you knitters may be able to answer my question too. I'm crocheting a lovely cable cardigan. A Leisure Arts pattern (Classic Crocheted Cardigans). As with most patterns, there are instructions for three sizes. I'm doing the largest size. It will be easier if I give the instructions for the first three rows: "CH 74 {79-84} loosly. ROW 1: DC in fourth ch from hook and in each ch across: 72 {77-82} sts. ROW 2: (right side): Ch 3 (counts as first dc, now and throughout), turn; dc in next dc, work Cable *dc in next 4 {5-6} dc, work cable; repeat from * across to last 2 sts, dc in last 2 sts: 6 cables. Row 3: Ch 3, turn: dc in next dc, work BPdc around next 8 FPtr, *dc in next 4 {5-6} dc, work BPdc around next 8 FPtr; repeat from * acros to last dc, dc in last dc." Now with the extra stitches I chained at the beginning I do have 6 cables but I have 8 dc after the last cable. This seemed fine while working row 2 because I did my 6 dc and dc in the last two. Now row 3 has neglected the extra dc I put in for the size change. Do I just dc over them and work the BPdc around the FPtr as directed? Will the cables look off center because they start 2 stitches from one side and 8 stitches from the other side? It seems like an oops but this is the most complicated sweater I have crocheted yet. Thanks, Laurie Washougal, WA |
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