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traveling vines pattern

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Ms.toosh says:

hi all
I'm trying to knit the traveling vine pattern from Barbara walker's treasury of knitting, but I'm having trouble with the number of stitches.
it says multiple of 8sts + 4 (16+4=20) so if i want to make it twice the size it should be 40sts?...
every time i try knitting this pattern i get it wrong :(

your help will be appreciated!

reut
Posted at 6:10PM, 3 October 2007 PDT (permalink)

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KarenP  Pro User  says:

No, it would be 32 + 4 = 36
Posted 57 months ago. (permalink)

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Ms.toosh says:

thanks a lot!
just how did u come to that?
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KarenP  Pro User  says:

You said it's a pattern that is a multiple of 8 stitches, +4. So since you want 4 repeats instead of 2, that would be 4x8 plus the extra 4 stitches. 36 all together.
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Ms.toosh says:

thanks a lot! you saved me a big headache :)
thanks for the quick response
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KarenP  Pro User  says:

I don't have the book, so I hope I'm right! :-)
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Ms.toosh says:

sorry, that didn't work either..
i don't know what i'm doing wrong. is this a hard pattern to knit?...
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Dixie and Trixie  Pro User  says:

If it is the one that I am thinking of, it is confusing in that you start out with 8 + 4 stitches (total of 12) but on the second row you have a total of 13 stitches with which to work, and you don't go back to just total of 12 until the 12th row. If that made any sense!!
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Ms.toosh says:

so what do i do if i want to double the pattern?...
im talking about this
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Dixie and Trixie  Pro User  says:

How many repeats do you want to end up with? as in how many stitches wide is the piece you're knitting?
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Dixie and Trixie  Pro User  says:

Here's a sample of the traveling vine I've used, from Mon Tricot:

cast on 12 stitches
row one - k2 *yo, k1tbl, yo, sl 1 k1 psso, k5* end with k2 (you will have 13 stitches)

row 2 k2 *p4 p2 tog tbl, p3* k2 (you will be back to 12 stitches)

row 3 k2 *yo, k1 tbl, yo, k2, s1 k1 psso, k3* k2 (you will be back to 13 stitches)
and so on for a total of 12 rows for the pattern
If you want to increase, just multiply 8 stitches by the number of vines you want -- so to make three vines, you would need 28 stitches

2 side stitches, 8 X 3 for the vines, and 2 side stitches
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Ms.toosh says:

thank you very much i will try it :)
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little_stitcher says:

Yikes!
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