I offered to have a go at a Bergere De France pattern for MIL who bought the wool etc but couldn't do the pattern, it is driving me to distraction and I can't give up, I must beat it!
It's the tunic pattern here on page four.
I can't even start the bloody thing, it took me ages to figure out the odd cable thing, have got that now, but I can't get the laddering between each cabling section.
Pattern reads:
CO82
stst 2 rows
4sts st-st, 14sts cable A, YO (to be worked as reverse st-st) (this will form ladder), 1st reverse st-st, YO repeat 3times more, then 14sts cable A, 4sts st-st.
I am to end up with 90 sts, which adds up for four repeats of the two YO's.
Where I'm confused is the later rows, that instruction tells me what to do on the first row, the 14sts cable A, actually goes for 8 rows, the next 7 just being st-st anyway. so I do the 1st row with those instructions above, what do I put between the 14sts of cable pattern in the following 7 rows? All I can see is that the first YO is to later be worked as a reverse st-st. I have tried lots of times and I just end up with it all knitted across not a laddering like in the picture.
Am tearing my hair out!
Just for clarity the pattern next tells me what to do when work measures 13cm which is after the 8 rows of cable. So definitely nothing else about those rows.
Anyone shed any light?
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undertheboredwalk · 17/02/2013 14:31
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