I'm trying to swatch a knit pattern. There's a detail picture of what the pattern looks like on this page:
http://www.berroco.com/exclusives/lali/lali.html
The instructions include something that doesn't make sense to me. (Highlighted below.)
http://www.berroco.com/exclusives/lali/lali.html
The instructions include something that doesn't make sense to me. (Highlighted below.)
PATTERN STITCH (Multiple of 2 + 3)What I don't understand is - if I insert the needle back to front to knit, the needle is pointing out the front of the fabric, but the yarn is behind the fabric. I can't figure out how to get a loop onto the needle that way. Should I bring the yarn to the front? Do they mean something by "insert from back to front" that I don't understand? I don't think they mean "through the back loop" because other patterns on the site use "through the back loop" for that.
Row 1 (RS): K2, * insert needle from back to front between the next 2 sts and knit the 2nd st, then knit the 1st st slipping both sts off LH needle; rep from * across, end k1.
Row 2: P2, * skip next st and p the next st, then p the skipped st slipping both sts off LH needle; rep from * across, end p1.
Rep these 2 rows for Pat St.
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Your needle will poke out between the two stitches, aiming at you, then keep turning it into the second stitch, go into the stitch and get the yarn from the back and bring it back out through the front of the second stitch and to the back between the two stitches. You will now have a knitted stitch on your right needle and the unknitted stitch that you skipped still on the left needle. So you go around to the front of the stitch that you skipped and knit it.
HOH
Your right needle will poke out between the two stitches on your left needle, aiming at you, then keep turning it into the second stitch, go into the stitch and get the yarn from the back and bring it back out through the front of the second stitch and to the back between the two stitches. You will now have a knitted stitch on your right needle and the unknitted stitch that you skipped still on the left needle. So you go around to the front of the stitch that you skipped and knit it.
HOH
Oh and by the way, this is me.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~coolhoun/patterns/symabb.html
See Twist 2 back and Twist 2 front on that page for a description of making the stitch with the aid of a cable needle. I don't know if it's the same as the pattern for the purse, but I think it might be. And making the stitch with a cable needle should be a lot easier.
And this reminded me of Barbara Walker's A Treasury of Knitting Patterns series, which may have something similar to that.
Have you picked up _Big Girl Knits_ yet?
I have Barbara Walker's treasuries in my wish list but I haven't gotten around to buying them yet.
I have bought Big Girl Knits. I like it and have learned a lot just from reading it. For one of my next tricks I'm going to try to make a tank with side panels somewhat like the Sandy has.
I've started the booblicious tank 6 times, and each time I get utterly confused when I get to the waist shaping. I suppose it's time to chart it out, but geeze, I should know how to follow a pattern by now.
I'm currently knitting the Best Friend Coat out of Sally Melville's _The Knitting Experience: The Knit Stitch_. What a wonderful book! I love her clarity in pattern writing, and her treatment of caston/castoff and seaming.
ta!
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