The Knitters Thread

boultdj

thifty wrote: »

So square brackets mean to do something so many times and rounded brackets are actual instructions?
Thanks I will have another go - ripping back here I come !

Yes that's right,good luck with your patteren

meanmarie

Thify...if you look at initial pattern instructions, it should tell you that square brackets are for different sizes and curved ones followed by 'times' denotes the number of times you follow instructions inside curved brackets...so boultdj is correct

Marie

OrkneyStar

thifty wrote: »

Hi,
Could someone help me make sense of this pattern please? I have a problem with brackets!
I have 60 stitches and I am making the last size,and the row reads:
K6 [2:5:1:3], (yfwd, yrn, p1, p3tog, p1, yon, k2) 3 [5:5:7:7] times, yfwd, yrn, p1, p3tog, p1, yon, k6 [ 2:5:1:3].

So does this mean I k3, then do the first bit in brackets 7 times, then the last bit 3 times?
I think I have included the k3 at the start of each repeat and if I carry on like this I will run out of stitches won't I?

Hope someone can help please
Thrifty

The square brackets refer to the sizing, so you start by knitting how the amount of stitches for your size (eg 6 stitches for first size, 2 for second, 5 for third and so on), then you repeat the part in round brackets exactly as written for as many times as is written in the square brackets next to it (eg repeat the round bracket section beginning yfwd 3 times for the first size, 5 times for the second size, 5 times for the third size and so on), then knit the section not in brackets, beginning yfwd, then finally knit the amount of stitches for your size (as you did at the start).
So for your last size I would do:
K3, yfwd, yrn, p1, p3tog, p1, yon, k2, yfwd, yrn, p1, p3tog, p1, yon, k2, yfwd, yrn, p1, p3tog, p1, yon, k2, yfwd, yrn, p1, p3tog, p1, yon, k2, yfwd, yrn, p1, p3tog, p1, yon, k2, yfwd, yrn, p1, p3tog, p1, yon, k2, yfwd, yrn, p1, p3tog, p1, yon, k2, yfwd, yrn, p1, p3tog, p1, yon, k3.
HTH

janb5

Sorry for my misleading help and glad it`s been sorted now!

OrkneyStar

The scarf I really didn't enjoy knitting but love it now it is done!

thifty

Thanks for all your advice ladies. Jan - don't worry
I find I get better at a pattern the more times I rip it back and re-do it! In fact I have learnt so much from my many mistakes in my short knitting career, that I am very quick at unknitting!:rotfl:

cuddles123

Lovely yarn Orkney - is that Regia?

OrkneyStar

cuddles123 wrote: »

Lovely yarn Orkney - is that Regia?

Yep, but it is not the same as the other Regia sock yarns, it is much looser and not really plied. I think it suits items which don't need such hold as socks do. I have another 3 skeins to use, and I suspect it will be more scarves or shawls .
It is this.

prepareathome

Don't know if this is any help, but I came across it today. Its a calculator for working out how to increase evenly across a row when doing your own pattern - its nothing to buy just a web page. Very handy.

http://www.thedietdiary.com/knittingfiend/tools/IncreaseEvenlySpace.html

grannybroon

I am busy knitting baby things at the moment and the patterns vary as to preferred cast on method. Some specify thumb method, some don't specify so presumably the two needle method.

Any of you folk advise please as about to start a new cardigan and not sure what is the best method.

I knit a lot of toys and always use thumb method for them.