Knitting help needed please

[BishopBrennansArse]

I'm quite an experienced knitter but can't figure this out...

Trying to knit this chevron pattern. Going great guns until the top of the right hand column. With yarn A it says only to do row 1 of the pattern then with yarn b Work both rows.

If I do this I will be working a row 1 on the WS not the RS is that right? Then a row 2 on the RS? It looks so messy doing it this way, you get the bumps of the WS in the RS and it doesn't look right.

It has to be something like that as you end up reducing from 147 to 123 sts but it makes no sense to me...

First pic is the pattern, second how it's supposed to look

I think it may be a printing error as it makes no sense. I would do rows 1 & 2 in yarn A, then continue to follow the pattern. I have only ever knit baby & child stuff but some times I have found mistakes in the patterns.

It looks much better that way (I've frogged 3 times trying to sort it out!) would you reduce the sts at the end of the pattern to 123 or keep at 147? It doesn't look Ike it's had a reduction row does it?

Thanks, by the way

Ok ignore what I said last time I do think that there is an error what I think you need to do is Row 1 & 2 in yarn A, then Row 1& 2 in yarn B. Then do row 1 of the chevron pattern in yarn A this will give you 123 stitches. Then do 1 row knit as stated in the pattern. Then starting on the right side starting with a knit row st st till 45 cm long ending on a knit row (RS) then do row 2 of the chevron pattern and this will take you back up to 147 stitches. You then do the chevron pattern at the top.

Thank you sooo much!

So it's a way of reducing the stitches towards the end of the chevron piece, probably because that is at a narrower gauge than you would get from the same number of stitches in stockinette, otherwise it would bulge out above the chevron section in a very unflattering way!

However, (a) the pattern writer has been very lazy not to explain that more clearly in the instructions as it really comes across like a typo, and (b) I'm also confused about how you are meant to do two row 1s right after each other, with the yarn being at the wrong end for starters, and it coming out wrong as you say.

One possibility is that you're meant to slip all the stitches back to the other end so that you can do the row 1 again in colour B, but if you did that, surely colour A would now be at the wrong end when it's time to pick that up??

However, it is a mostly garter stitch pattern so maybe the designer thought it would be alright for one row 1 to happen on the other side of the work from all the others?

I think Furbabies is right, that makes more sense. But I would have a look on the publisher's website for errata for the pattern.

I get that magazine too

I just checked and they haven't posted any corrections for this issue on their website yet