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Wow, forgot how bad my math skills are, is there an easy way to calculate when increasing evenly - for instance how would you calculate increasing 56 stitches by 20 and space them evenly?
Thanks again.
Candee
Are you supposed to increase by 20 stitches all in one row? Or spread out over several rows? In other words, is the piece supposed to look like a T, where you have the base that's 56 stitches, then all of a sudden the next row you extend out by 10 on each side? Or is the increase supposed to look more angled, where you start with 56, then each row you add one or two stitches to the beginning and end for 5-10 rows and eventually get to 76? Or are they telling you to add all twenty evenly spaced across one row? I think that would make your piece wrinkly and puckery, but maybe that's the point? If that's what you're supposed to be doing though I'm surprised your directions aren't more explicit, usually they would tell you K3, add one, K3, add one, etc so you know where to put the added stitches. Can you post exactly what the directions for the pattern are saying?
Ok, it does sound like they want you to do it all in one row then. If you don't want to do math to figure it out, you could get a piece of graph paper, mark off 56 squares, then play around with making 20 marks across until you're happy with the spacing. Or if you're OK with math, the easiest way to do this one would be round up the 56 to 60 since you can divide that by 20 easily. 60/20 = 3, so every 3 stitches you would add one. However, since you only have 56 stitches instead of 60, you'll end up putting in only 18 stitches, so I would add one on at the beginning and one at the end too, then you'll have your 20.
Thanks for the rescue! LOL, me knitting, probably easier to send you the pattern and pay you to make it! and less aggravation for you in answering my dumb questions.
Just kidding, am loving the practice and have actually begun the pattern thanks to your help.
Honestly, I mostly knit scarves and have done practice pieces to learn some other patterns/stitches. But I've never tackled clothing (except for a few very simple baby clothes for a friend) so you'll probably pass me up before too long as far as knitting skills!
