Does this look like it would be relatively easy?

I am trying to figure out what kind of sweater to put on my list to make, and typical for my "if it's just a normal/typical thing, it's not my bag" personality, I found a sweater that I would like to try:

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look at the Ribbon Stitch Pullover at the bottom of the page. It looks like something that I would wear, you can make it to fit whatever size you are, and I think the diagonal line would be flattering.Does this look like a complicated project that I might be best off trying after a first pass at an easier project? (I do okay with knitting corner-to-corner dishcloths, and I have made two items before that use increases at markers for shaping, so this sweater looks like the same type of thing and also something that I might be easier able to get to fit my unconventional dimensions better than your average random sweater, but I am having an awful time making this one unprintable adjective of a tessellated fish that has repeats or increases at random spots because I keep forgetting where I'm at.)

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS
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It's a lovely pattern, and I read through it with great interest. Looks like it would be very simple to do once you got the hang of the increasing/decreasing. To me, any project is worth trying. ;-) I'd pick out the part of the pattern that stumps me or looks a bit confusing and get that down pat first. The sleeves are what made me 'blink' in the pattern.

MargeInReno

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mkdesigner2

It looks fairly easy to me too - but I'm in the throes of knitting a very complicated shawl in cobweb :-)

Mary

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Mary Fisher

It is a lovely jumper but I couldn't understand the ribbon pattern at all and that is after finishing just the neckline bask and I've been knitting for at least 50 years!

Could you translate it for me please? The pattern says: The Ribbon pattern stitch on the photo begins with the very first row as follows:

  1. Knit every stitch with color #1
  2. Purl every stitch with color #1
  3. Knit 2 sts of color #1, and 2 sts of color #2
  4. Knit 2 sts of color #1, and PURL 2 sts of color #2
  5. Knit every stitch with color #1
  6. Purl every stitch with color #1

I can't figure out what she means by these instructions. I didn't even bother getting to the sleeves when this first bit stumped me.

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FarmI

On those rows, you knit with different color yarns, sometimes an entire row with one color, sometimes just 2 sts alternating color. That's what gives it a `ribbon' effect. You could just leave it and use the color scheme of the rest of the sweater, or knit all in one color.

sue

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suzee

Ah! Thank you. I now see that the instructions are written in a sloppy way. It's 6 row pattern - simple when pointed out to me. I wonder why it didn't say: Row 1, Knit every stitch with colour #1, Row 2 Purl every stitch with colour #1, Row 3, Knit 2 sts of color #1, and 2 sts of color #2 etc. Odd way of writing instructions. I might go back and now try to get to the sleeves.

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FarmI

That's what it does say.... at least that was what was posted above...

sue

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suzee

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

I think you have to purl the color 2 stitches so they stand out.

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

What I'm confused about is you... you said "I wonder why it didn't say..." When that's exactly what it did say! Unless there was a real subtle difference in the way the 2 instructions were written out in your posts that I missed...

sue

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suzee

Is it? That comment has actually just caused the penny to drop for me and explains past experiences. Perhaps it's a case of what each of us is used to?? I've tried a few times to follow American patterns and I gave up before I actually got to knit them as I couldn't understand them. When I've seen features I like in an American patttern, I've then gone off to the library and found similar features in in an English/Aus or NZ book and used those and changed them slightly as needed to match what I want to do.

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FarmI

"Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply" wrote in message news:4734bcf9$0$79863$ snipped-for-privacy@news.sonic.net...

You have me mixed up with Suzee. She isn't confused by the pattern. I am the one who was confused by the pattern until Suzee clarified it for me.

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FarmI

No, it wasn't Melinda who wrote that, I wrote that. Melinda is the one who asked if was easy and Marg in Reno, and I then looked at it and responded to Melinda. Marg in Reno thought the sleeves were confusing, I thought the instructions were confusing from the start and asked for a translation which is where you came to my aid.

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FarmI

Oh, I think I get it....

sue

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suzee

The original instructions didn't specify that "1." meant _Row_ 1. So some people thought it meant all the instructions 1-6 were to be done on the same row, at the same time. (I.e., in a multicolor row, every color #1 stitch would be knitted and purled, maybe alternately, but if there were two stitches of the same color together then sometimes color 2 would be knitted and sometimes purled... maddening!) Specifying that "1." was "Row 1." made it clear.

Though having looked at (but not knitted!) a Bohus pattern, now I'm tempted to try that botched interpretation I came up with, just to see how it turns out. :-p (I think it would need more instructions to set up a color pattern.)

=Tamar

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Richard Eney

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