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Puzzling Through
Sep. 20th, 2024 09:19 amI sat down to look at the pattern for the 1919 sweater cape I want to make this week. That one was a bit of a puzzler. For awhile I thought that their stitch counts and row counts were all messed up, but then I finally figured out that they had just written it differently from any other pattern I've ever followed. I finally got my head wrapped around it so I think after I make it, I may put my translation up on Ravelry so that if anyone else is interested in making it, they can read what I came up with. I think it's right...
Usually when a pattern says to increase one stitch every sixth row six times, they're saying that you should knit thirty-six rows before the next instruction in the pattern (or sometimes they mean to knit 31 rows). Here it's more like start increasing one stitch every sixth row while you're knitting the number of rows in the next instruction, which is neither 36 nor 31.
That being said, I think there are two errors in the pattern, but one of them is a substitution of "rows" for "ridges," and the other is to pick up 640 stitches along the hem, which doesn't quite mesh with the number of rows that you're picking up stitches on.
Usually when a pattern says to increase one stitch every sixth row six times, they're saying that you should knit thirty-six rows before the next instruction in the pattern (or sometimes they mean to knit 31 rows). Here it's more like start increasing one stitch every sixth row while you're knitting the number of rows in the next instruction, which is neither 36 nor 31.
That being said, I think there are two errors in the pattern, but one of them is a substitution of "rows" for "ridges," and the other is to pick up 640 stitches along the hem, which doesn't quite mesh with the number of rows that you're picking up stitches on.
