Thank you for this. I haven’t gotten there yet but would also have been puzzled.
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Love the color. Loving this project. 
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This just doesn’t look correct. I completed 8 Rows of the FL and started Row 1 again.
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It’s hard for me to see if there is something wrong. Maybe a larger view of piece would help. Had an error in mine early on and ripped out some rows, but I couldn’t figure out which row it was when I restarted. I had to start all over. But now the back is done and working on front. I also found Carol Feller will help if you send her a question.
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I am just frustrated at not being able to understand what I am doing wrong if I am doing something wrong. I have looked at the pictures so many times. I was going to rip out through Rowe 5, but this morning I decided I would try Row 7 again and continue through Row 3 of the next repeat and see what it looks like. I will try for a better picture. Thanks.
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Thank you so much for this. I was also confused about this step and can now proceed with confidence.
I have completed through Row 4. It doesn’t look correct. I think I need to rip to the second set up row. But some of that section looks correct to me. I don’t know!
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I see what you mean. Where I’ve circled on the picture looks like the trellis is going straight up. Below the line they look perfectly fine. Not sure if it has something to do when you go to stockinette and the stitches around them. I’m not experienced enough to know where it goes off. However, I probably would go back to a swatch to make sure I was getting the trellis down with the stockinette and practice that instead of the whole wide piece. On row 7, are you shifting everything over 3 stitches. So k1 (edge), k3, *1/1LC, k2, 1/1RC, k2, repeat after asterisk ,but you do not repeat the k3. That is outside of *repeat.
On Row 7 of the Second Set-up Row I am K 1(edge stitch) then LC K2 RC K2. I just eliminated the K3. I am knitting the 49, so my second set-up row begins an ends with 24 pattern stitches. I did K3 the first two times I completed the FL pattern.
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That’s the problem. On row 7 you need to k1for edge, knit 3 then start the LC repeat. If you moved your markers by that knit 3. You will have 5 stitches before the knit 1 edge. Those last 5 are LC then knit 3. So in essence, you have a knit 1, knit 3 at beginning and end of row 7. I think when you do this it will form your trellis better. I know I’m probably confusing you. But you do need to work the knit 3 at beginning and end, but not through the repeats.
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Not to state the obvious, but being a chart reader, I was also not understanding how row 7 worked with the whole shift until I finally read the written directions for the pattern and that cleared up all the mystery of row 7 for me.
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I haven’t learned how to use a chart yet to knit a pattern and have only used written out patterns. Earlier in a post we had a chart user post the chart and the dark lines in row 7 shift to the left. The knit 3 are the 3 squares before. This really helped me as well to understand. And of course outside the chart and on page 20 we have the one stockinette stitch always at beginning and end.
Just hoping we are all doing and reading it correctly. Thanks for your response.
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I started Row 7 again with the first four stitches being knits. On this row the eight stitch pattern extends beyond the maker indicating 24 stitches. So do I complete the RC in the stockinette section and then only Knit 7 in that section and start the LC in the next 16 Stitch section.
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You continue the eight stitch pattern exactly as written. Yes it goes into the stockinette section but you will see it comes out. I think that must be what makes that one trellis section to angle instead of going straight up. So once you complete that first 4 stitches you will follow the pattern in the yellow highlights. Do the 8 stitch stockinette where the pattern calls for it in your size. When you get to the end of row, you will have 6 stitches left. Follow the green highlight and do 1 LC, knit 3 and then knit the last stitch. Let me know if you want to email or text me and I can help you through.
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For row 7 I chose to knit each 16 stitch trellis section Beginning And ending with knit 3 and not doing the last r/c, then I knit the 8 knit section and Continued starting over each section. This has worked for me and I’m loving the results. Carol Feller had added under notes that if there weren’t enough stitches to do the cross, treat it as stockingnet stitch. That being said, one of the first things I was taught was keep it consistent as long as you like the results. I don’t think it matters either way.
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Glad it works and as you said being consistent is key. I can’t wait to see all of these finished projects.
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Good for you! It doesn’t matter one bit! Nobody is going to walk up to you when you are wearing it and say, “Oh, you made a mistake there on your row 7,( or 6 or whatever!)”. What matters is that your knitting is consistent.
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First—thank you so much for your help and patience during my frustration I just couldn’t work on it yesterday. I think I finally “got it.” I am not a new knitter which mentally made things worse for me. I should just trust the pattern. But I looked at the pictures, and it did seem to me that none of the LC or RC stitches extended into the eight stitch portions.
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I think too like was said earlier, as long as you are following the same pattern throughout and being consistent , it’s fine. Looks like you are on a roll now. Can’t wait to see them finished.
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The image that brings up has me laughing. Actually, the ladies at my lys would do that, but then they’d say, in unison mind you, ‘design element’.
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