Does this look like it would be relatively easy?

"suzee" wrote in message
FarmI wrote:
"suzee" wrote in message
FarmI wrote:
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It's a lovely pattern, and I read through it with great interest.
Looks like it would be very simple to do once you got the hang of the
increasing/decreasing.
It is a lovely jumper but I couldn't understand the ribbon pattern at
all and that is after finishing just the neckline bask and I've been
knitting for at least 50 years!

Could you translate it for me please? The pattern says:
The Ribbon pattern stitch on the photo begins with the very first row
as follows:
1. Knit every stitch with color #1
2. Purl every stitch with color #1
3. Knit 2 sts of color #1, and 2 sts of color #2
4. Knit 2 sts of color #1, and PURL 2 sts of color #2
5. Knit every stitch with color #1
6. Purl every stitch with color #1

I can't figure out what she means by these instructions. I didn't even
bother getting to the sleeves when this first bit stumped me.
On those rows, you knit with different color yarns, sometimes an entire
row with one color, sometimes just 2 sts alternating color. That's what
gives it a `ribbon' effect. You could just leave it and use the color
scheme of the rest of the sweater, or knit all in one color.

Ah! Thank you. I now see that the instructions are written in a sloppy
way. It's 6 row pattern - simple when pointed out to me. I wonder why
it didn't say:
Row 1, Knit every stitch with colour #1,
Row 2 Purl every stitch with colour #1,
Row 3, Knit 2 sts of color #1, and 2 sts of color #2
etc.

confused That's what it does say.... at least that was what was posted
above...

Is it? That comment has actually just caused the penny to drop for me and
explains past experiences. Perhaps it's a case of what each of us is used
to?? I've tried a few times to follow American patterns and I gave up
before I actually got to knit them as I couldn't understand them. When I've
seen features I like in an American patttern, I've then gone off to the
library and found similar features in in an English/Aus or NZ book and used
those and changed them slightly as needed to match what I want to do.

"Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply" wrote in
message ...
It looks like that pattern is not so much a commercialized pattern to
follow as much as is it instructions on how to create the sweater. I
didn't think that part was confusing (but then again, I have been sewing
without patterns for about 10-15 years and have knitted without patterns
my entire life except for one brief but unsuccessful fling 10-15 years ago
that resulted in a lousy sock and my recent attempts to learn how to
follow a pattern). What part of it do you not understand?

You have me mixed up with Suzee. She isn't confused by the pattern. I am
the one who was confused by the pattern until Suzee clarified it for me.

suzee wrote:

Ah! Thank you. I now see that the instructions are written in a sloppy
way. It's 6 row pattern - simple when pointed out to me. I wonder why
it didn't say:
Row 1, Knit every stitch with colour #1,
Row 2 Purl every stitch with colour #1,
Row 3, Knit 2 sts of color #1, and 2 sts of color #2
etc.

confused That's what it does say.... at least that was what was posted
above...

Odd way of writing instructions. I might go back and now try to get to
the sleeves.



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"suzee" wrote in message
Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:
It looks like that pattern is not so much a commercialized pattern to
follow as much as is it instructions on how to create the sweater. I
didn't think that part was confusing (but then again, I have been sewing
without patterns for about 10-15 years and have knitted without patterns
my entire life except for one brief but unsuccessful fling 10-15 years
ago that resulted in a lousy sock and my recent attempts to learn how to
follow a pattern). What part of it do you not understand?

What I'm confused about is you... you said "I wonder why it didn't say..."

No, it wasn't Melinda who wrote that, I wrote that. Melinda is the one who
asked if was easy and Marg in Reno, and I then looked at it and responded to
Melinda. Marg in Reno thought the sleeves were confusing, I thought the
instructions were confusing from the start and asked for a translation which
is where you came to my aid.

FarmI wrote:
"suzee" wrote in message
Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:
It looks like that pattern is not so much a commercialized pattern to
follow as much as is it instructions on how to create the sweater. I
didn't think that part was confusing (but then again, I have been sewing
without patterns for about 10-15 years and have knitted without patterns
my entire life except for one brief but unsuccessful fling 10-15 years
ago that resulted in a lousy sock and my recent attempts to learn how to
follow a pattern). What part of it do you not understand?
What I'm confused about is you... you said "I wonder why it didn't say..."

No, it wasn't Melinda who wrote that, I wrote that. Melinda is the one who
asked if was easy and Marg in Reno, and I then looked at it and responded to
Melinda. Marg in Reno thought the sleeves were confusing, I thought the
instructions were confusing from the start and asked for a translation which
is where you came to my aid.

Oh, I think I get it....

sue

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suzee wrote:
FarmI wrote:
"suzee" wrote in message
FarmI wrote:

It is a lovely jumper but I couldn't understand the ribbon pattern at all
and that is after finishing just the neckline bask and I've been knitting
for at least 50 years!

Could you translate it for me please? The pattern says:
The Ribbon pattern stitch on the photo begins with the very
first row as follows:
1. Knit every stitch with color #1
2. Purl every stitch with color #1
3. Knit 2 sts of color #1, and 2 sts of color #2
4. Knit 2 sts of color #1, and PURL 2 sts of color #2
5. Knit every stitch with color #1
6. Purl every stitch with color #1

I can't figure out what she means by these instructions. I didn't
even bother getting to the sleeves when this first bit stumped me.

On those rows, you knit with different color yarns, sometimes an entire
row with one color, sometimes just 2 sts alternating color. That's what
gives it a `ribbon' effect. You could just leave it and use the color
scheme of the rest of the sweater, or knit all in one color.

Ah! Thank you. I now see that the instructions are written in a
sloppy way. It's a 6 row pattern - simple when pointed out to me.
I wonder why it didn't say:
Row 1, Knit every stitch with colour #1,
Row 2. Purl every stitch with colour #1,
Row 3, Knit 2 sts of colour #1, and 2 sts of colour #2
etc.

confused That's what it does say.... at least that was
what was posted above...

The original instructions didn't specify that "1." meant _Row_ 1.
So some people thought it meant all the instructions 1-6 were to be
done on the same row, at the same time. (I.e., in a multicolor row,
every color #1 stitch would be knitted and purled, maybe alternately,
but if there were two stitches of the same color together then
sometimes color 2 would be knitted and sometimes purled... maddening!)
Specifying that "1." was "Row 1." made it clear.

Though having looked at (but not knitted!) a Bohus pattern, now
I'm tempted to try that botched interpretation I came up with, just
to see how it turns out. :-p (I think it would need more instructions
to set up a color pattern.)

=Tamar