Baffled knitter - help!

[LivingSlowmo]

I’m in danger of giving up again as I don’t know what to do. I’m on the front section but don’t know how to continue after first decrease.

Pic 1 - current pattern stage
Pic 2 - decrease instruction
Pic 3 - Check stitch

What exactly do I do after ‘k2, ssk’? There’s no mention of the pattern!
😚

I can only see a picture of part of the pattern, but not the bit you are asking about.
The patterns usually have an abbreviations section which should help.

I’m not sure why other pics didn’t download. Here they are!

Not sure why the other pics didn’t download. Here they are.

Still not seeing the ssk instructions

I’ve added the pictures again as it seems to keep failing.

Ditto above. I can't see where you are being asked to SSK. Is this how you are decreasing?

You keep the continuity of the checked pattern going. So for example, if your next stitch after your decrease is a single knit stitch then knit it but then work the p2, k2 pattern until you get to your last 4 stitches. The important thing is to keep the checks consistent.

You knit 2 then ssk which decreases by one stitch then carry on that row as normal whatever the pattern is. Then 3 rows in pattern then decrease again and keep going like that till you have the right number of stitches for your size.

Oh I see what you mean now. Except the SSK and K2tog refers to when you decrease at both ends of the row. Your instruction only says decrease at one end, or have I read it wrong? Aren't you decreasing to make the v of the cardigan?

Thank you all for trying to help, but I’ve just realised that I put in the wrong stage of the pattern. I’ve added the correct photo now: ‘Mark Armhole and Shape V-Neck’.

Can you explain what I need to do please 😞?

a) Only on the RS row do ‘k2, ssk’ at the beginning of the row? Don’t do anything other than the pattern on the wrong side.

b) Do a) and also work the stitches as described at ‘ Dec 1 st for WS’?

c) Something else entirely.

To clarify: should I ‘k2, ssk’ at the beginning of the RS row (as it in ‘dec 1st’?) Or, do I ‘k2, ssk’ at the end of row (as it seems to say in pattern instruction 😥

i read it as the decreasing instructions in Pic2 tell you how to work the decreases whether they are at the beginning or end of a row. When you make the back you need to work at both ends. When you make each of the fronts then you only work the type of decrease that it relevant to the side you need to decrease on - so you work the k2 ssk if you are decreasing at the beginning of the row and work the other end straight and for the other front piece you work straight at the start of the row until you reach your final 4 stitches and then k2tog, k2.

Apologies if I have misunderstood (again) what you have asked and I am teaching my grandmother to suck eggs 😬

So kind of you and I think you are right re instructions (pic 2) being for beginning/end.
You are definitely not teaching me to suck eggs as I do need help.

I’m making the left front so I think what you’re saying is that I should decrease at the end of the row. Thanks again for helping!!

@LivingSlowmohow is it going?

Read your knitting. Look at what you are trying to achieve at that point and that should tell you where you are doing the decreases to make it the right shape. There should be a schematic included with the latter that you can compare with. It's also helpful to hold it up to yourself or a more appropriately sized person to visualise where everything is going.

So yes, for the left front knitted bottom up, you would be decreasing at the end of a right side row to make the v-neck shaping on the right hand side of that piece as it would be worn.