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I’m stuck on a pattern. I’m working Daisy<\/a> for a friend’s upcoming baby and have hit a snag in my understanding of the pattern.<\/p>\n

It’s a raglan cardigan and I’ve knit it successfully up until the neck shaping on the second (left) front side, where the pattern directs me to:<\/p>\n

“Work neck shaping to match right front, reversing all shaping.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The right front neck shaping directs me to:<\/p>\n

Row 1:BO 6 sts, k to last 3 sts, k2tog, k1.
\nRow 2 [and all wrong side rows]: Purl.
\nRow 3: BO 2 sts, k to last 3 sts, k2tog, k1.
\nRow 5: BO 1 st, k to last 3 sts, k2tog, k1.
\nContinue purling WS rows, and repeat Row 5 1[ 2, 3] times– 4 sts remain [all sizes].
\nNext row: K1, k2tog, k1.
\nNext row: Purl.
\nNext row: Sl 1, k2tog, psso, fasten off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since I want to reverse that, I imagined what I should knit should be something like:<\/p>\n

Row 1: K1, ssk, k to last 6 stitches, bind off last six stitches. etc. etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But that doesn’t work because then I have knitted stitches, a gap of six bound off stitches and then one final stitch way over at the left end on the button band. Which is clearly wrong.<\/p>\n

So should I instead knit across a row and start my work on the wrong side and reverse all the decreases to the purl side? That would allow me to bind off the stitches along the button band first and continue increasing up to the shoulder seam on the other side.<\/p>\n

And if so, do I want to purl 2 stitches together to get what should be a left-leaning decrease on the right side of the garment?<\/p>\n

Or is there some other way that I’m not seeing? I’ve googled the question and no one else seems to have had difficulty understanding this part of the pattern but me.<\/p>\n

Can anyone help?<\/p>\n

(If not, I’ll wait for Stephanie<\/a> to submit her book proposal before I harass her about what she meant in her pattern, herself.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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