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Can someone help me understand these knitting instructions?

June 16, 2010 - 5:45 am 3 Comments

Question by pineapplepower: Can someone help me understand these knitting instructions?
The book says Row 1: K4, (P4, K4) twice

So what does that mean? I knit 4 times, then Purl four times, then knit 4 again?

Thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by Donya
knit 4 st , purl 4, knit 4 , purl 4 knit 4.
When brackets are around the st followed by a number ex: (P4 K4) twice, you repeat the st 2x

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3 Responses to “Can someone help me understand these knitting instructions?”

  1. hairbender Says:
    June 16th, 2010 at 6:12 am

    Yes, it’s very clear. What is within the brackets gets repeated the nulmber of times indicated. The K4 is done only once, then the brackets are repeated twice. Sometimes asterisks are used *…*, or square brackets [...]. Means the same thing.

  2. ••kicky• •chicky•• Says:
    June 16th, 2010 at 7:09 am

    K4, THEN p4, k4, p4, k4

    when instructions are in (), [], etc., that means you do whatever’s inside those brackets x number of times that the pattern tells you.

  3. Kristen Says:
    December 19th, 2010 at 9:38 pm

    Thanks kicky chicky! That actually helped me out a whole bunch..

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