10 comments

  1. This explanation really helped a lot. I was still uncertain about it when I read the book but the light has dawned. I mapped the increase pattern from the formula with paper and pencil to show the 5 increases (one after each 5th stitch) and then 10 increases (one after each 6th stitch) and it came out fine. That led me to wonder if there is any reason why I could not distribute the increases across the 85 stitches so that I would increase after the 6th step twice and then after the 5th step once and repeat the sequence until all increases were done…sort of a 6,6,5,6,6,5,6,6,5,6,6,5,6,6,5 pattern. Your formula is pretty powerful and is going to be tremendously useful. Thanks again!

  2. Great and Yes! That’s how I do it, distribute the increases evenly across the row. The formula is really great for things like shortening or lengthening sleeves and recharting the increase intervals. You are so welcome and thanks for commenting.

  4. So glad you understand it now Ioanna! It is helpful to be able to read and to see things at times. Thank you for commenting.

  5. Hi Cheryl,
    I understand the more or less formula, applied it to the sweater in this class and it worked out great! Now I am looking over my next sweater pattern which is a raglan sleeve pullover and am checking the designers numbers on the raglan angle and the rate of sleeve increases/decreases and my numbers for the rate of increase/decrease comes out different than the ones the designer used. I used the correct number of decrease rows and the stitch counts from beginning to end are correct. What would be the reason for the difference in the rate of increase/decrease … and how much does it matter?
    Thank you,
    Sue

  6. Hmmmm. It could be that there’s an error in the pattern. That happens fairly frequently though not as much as it used to because it’s easier to correct nowadays. Another thing might be that you have a different row gauge? As to how much difference it makes, it depends on how different your figures are from those in the pattern. Maybe draw a little picture of both of them side by side and compare the numbers that way and see if it reveals an answer. I do that. Draw a picture and that helps me literally “see” where the discrepancy is.

  7. I understand the concept of increasing across the row, but, do you have a video of actually how you do this. Having come back to knitting after a very long hiatus, I fund I am having to actually see a stitch rather than just reading it. Thanks for this

  9. Hi Cheryl, I understand the math except for the “+1”. Why is 1 added to the quotient and the remainder? Thanks for any help.

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