Is there is a mistake in my pattern?

[margaritasbythesea]

I am a new knitter and I am not very confident but it seems to me there is a mistake in this pattern. Could I be correct?

It's a straight shawl in a lace stitch, with every third line being the 'lace' line.

It says to cast on 126 stitiches and work a lace repeat which takes up 12 stitches over this. There is no border. This means I have six stitches left over on this line with no instructions what to do with them.

Should I in fact cast on 120 stitches and work the repeat 10 times? Or have I misunderstood something?

Row 1 (RS): knit.
Row 2: purl.
Row 3: (p2tog) 3 times, (yo, k1) 6 times, (p2tog) 3 times; rep from to end.
Row 4: knit. These 4 rows repeated form wavy lace st.

Thanks for your help. It's my first 'big' project and I was so excited to get started.

I don't know why the formatting has taken out the repeat markers but is goes

Row 3: (p2tog) 3 times, (yo, k1) 6 times, (p2tog) 3 times; rep from to end.

again! sorry.
It's from (p2tog) to (p2tog) 3 times

No, the pattern is correct. The yo instruction creates 6 new stitches, replacing the ones you have "lost" when purling two together. So once you have have knitted the full repeat you will have 18 stitches, which repeated 7 times is your 126. Hope that helps, enjoy!!

Looks like feather and fan to me?

The 126 is right, but it is a bit confusing. Each 12 stitch repeat is a set of decreases (the p2tog) and a set of increases (the yo, k1).

So at the beginning of the row, you start with the decreases then move to the increases (and repeat).

To finish, you need a set of decreases, or you'd end on the increases. So this is your extra 6 stitches.

As an aside, when I knit things like this, I normally add a least one stitch to each end. Also slip the first stitch of each row as it gives you a neater edge.

Hopefully this helps!

Thanks for your help. I chose it as it seemed simple - and I have done more complicated lace before ok. But now it seems there´s something about it that hasn´t clicked for me. I am going to start again.

Perhaps I just lost count in the heat!

The author calls it ´Chevron wave´but it does look like a fan, yes.

Trackydacks - do you cast on an extra stitch to do that?

Thinking about the slip stitch suggestion more, would you just do it in the rows that don't begin with a decrease?

@margaritasbythesea I'd add 2 stitches on - so cast on 128. Then you always slip the first stitch of every row and just knit/purl the last stitch.

Thank you. I'm going to start again today. Cross your fingers for me!