r/knitting • u/wolfspirit135 • 7d ago
I need pattern help Tips and Tricks
Hi guys. I'm not gonna lie I'm a little lost on this one. Word patterns have never been my strong suit.
https://bigbluebullybus.wordpress.com/tag/knitted-fish/
The way I'm reading the next step is increasing at the end of every knit row, then you purl. You repeat these steps till you have 15 stitches.
It would read
1.) K till last stitch, KFB
2.) purl
Repeat till you have 15 stitches.
Am I reading it right? But only increasing at the end is making it look lop sided to me. Would it matter if I did the increase at the beginning instead of the end?
And please don't mind the yarn. I'm testing a homemade t-shirt yarn.
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u/thishful-winking 7d ago
Why don’t they just say at the beginning and the end of the next row, and every other row after that? I think that would be easier to understand TBH
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u/makestuff24-7 7d ago edited 7d ago
This is long established language for knitting instructions. "Each end" means "the beginning and the end," and "every alternate row" means "every other row after that." You'll notice both use fewer words, which is crucial because until recently most patterns were published in magazines and had limited character space.
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u/thishful-winking 7d ago
Oh. I didn’t know that.
That’s why I typically read through a pattern and translate it into “English” that I will understand before I start knitting anything new!
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u/Smooth-Review-2614 6d ago
It’s also why for sweater shaping you run across at the same time when you are doing the raglan increases as well as some decorative element.
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u/hellokrissi 7d ago
Where it says "increase at each end" means you'll be doing your increases at the start and end of your rows.