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Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: ellied on September 14, 2014, 09:22:57 am
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Can someone tell me what k1tbl means? I'm looking at a new pattern and it's the in stitch I don't know. I get the k1 bit but it goes k1, k1tbl, k to ..etc
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Tbl means through back of look. So knit 1 through back of look. If you think about your usual knitting you do a knit stitch by knitting through the from of the stitch. K1tbl is just a knit stitch with a twist to it.
I hope this helps.
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Tbl means through back of look. So knit 1 through back of look. If you think about your usual knitting you do a knit stitch by knitting through the from of the stitch. K1tbl is just a knit stitch with a twist to it.
I hope this helps.
Hi Sally .... you been on that Gin again? for 'look' read ' loop' and for 'from' read 'front'!
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Sorry everyone. It's that b@&&Ły predictive text again ;D
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That's your excuse, Sally. ;D
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Thanks will have a go and see what happens. Can't be at knit group this week and want to get started while I'm taking a break from the physical work. Getting frustrated doing nothing!
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I'm gonna hijack this and ask what skpo means to people.
I had been doing it as s1 knit pass slipped stitch over, but I'm having trouble with the pattern and wondering if it is this bit I'm doing wrong.
Dans
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Dans, you are doing exactly as I would have done. Maybe we are both wrong ;D
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That's what I would do to. Does the pattern not have abbreviations explained?
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It is definitely slip one, knit one, pass slipped stitch over the knitted one. You are doing it right.
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Thought I'd check with you guys before digging out the magazine the pattern was in. The mag says the same. Gah I wish I knew what I was doing wrong with this jumper.
Dans
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Can you give us an idea of what is going wrong to see if the combined knitting brains can help solve the problem?
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I think I'm just getting confused in the row, which isn't like me at all. I keep ending up with more stitches on the needle at the end of the row and the pattern is skewing. I'm normally a competent knitter but this pattern seems to get me each time. I've just ripped it back and am starting again as the pattern was too skewed to fix. This time will only knit it at times where I focus 100% on it, no TV in the background, see if it helps.
My ravelry project for it is here:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Danscrazycatlady/lace-sweater (http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Danscrazycatlady/lace-sweater)
Dans
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It looks a lovely pattern Dans. You have obviously done a fair bit of the pattern and yet are getting stuck now. Has anything changed?
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If you look at the pattern notes I seem to have stumbled into problems with the repeat from the start. It was fine for my tension square, but as soon as I started to do more than one repeat it all went haywire. It's not even that hard a pattern, I've done more complicated ones before. ???
The 2nd attempt is still on the ribbing so once I get to the pattern I'll work on it with no distractions and see how it goes. :knit:
Dans
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Is the pattern repeat right? If you count the number of stitches used in each repeat, take off any stitches outside repeat at either end, then divide remainder of stitches by repeat, does it give you a whole number? Does that make sense?!
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Is the pattern repeat right? If you count the number of stitches used in each repeat, take off any stitches outside repeat at either end, then divide remainder of stitches by repeat, does it give you a whole number? Does that make sense?!
Not sure I'm good enough with patterns to understand that. The bit I'm stuck on is a 4 row repeat
R1 (WS): Purl
R2: K3 (yfwd, k2, skpo, k2tog, k2, yfwd, k1) to last st, k1
R3: Purl
R4: K2 (yfwd, k2, skpo, k2tog, k2, yfwd, k1) to last 2 sts, k2
So simple and somehow I kept messing it up, which is why I thought I might be interpreting skpo wrong.
Dans
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R4: K2 (yfwd, k2, skpo, k2tog, k2, yfwd, k1) to last 2 sts, k2
So simple and somehow I kept messing it up, which is why I thought I might be interpreting skpo wrong.
Dans
yfwd makes a stitch and skpo gets rid of a stitch, k2tog gets rid of another stitch and yfwd makes another stitch so you should end up with the same amount of stitches. Yes, it just sounds like a bit of concentration is needed. Good luck :fc: :knit:
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Sally's right, it should work out. I think you're right in saying that 100% concentration is called for. Let us know how it goes.