Need help with pattern from January Crochet! Magazine

[goldi316]

I posted the below message last night in the publications area but I'm thinking I may have better luck with my request here (I'll get up to speed, eventually). Rather than retyping the whole durn thing, I'm doing a copy-dump, to save the extra work. Can anyone help with this? It has me stalled on this project...

 

(posted under "January Crochet! Magazine") thread:)

 

I started working on the "Soft Winter Set" (pg 16) this weekend, and ran into some problems that I think may be errors in the pattern as written. One I am certain of after doing a search online, but I'm not as sure about the rest.

 

I started with the mitten pattern, crocheted up the cuff no problem, slip-stitched it together (I'm making the large version) and began the row of sc along the edge. I thought it a bit strange to have 32 rows for the cuff and have to "evenly space" 42 sc around that edge but no matter, I did as instructed, and everything seemed fine until I got to the section where the thumb is, Rnd 9, where I'm told to place a marker on the previous row and then to "sk 9 sts for thumb, [sc in next st, ch 1, sk next st] around to last st. I couldn't figure out how I was supposed to leapfrog across those 9 stitches with my yarn... Obviously something had to be missing there, and from browsing other mitten patterns online, I guessed it was a chain across the opening. But now my count is totally screwed up, and after looking at those other mitten patterns, I'm wondering (again) about that 42 sc evenly spaced around a 32 row cuff.

 

It could be my imagination is playing tricks with me now, but the hand part of my mitten seems like it's far larger than it should be for a child's mitten. This is the first mitten I've ever attempted, so I'm not real sure of myself here. I checked the magazine's website to see if any corrections had been posted for the pattern, but there were none. I really liked the way the pattern looked, but I've kind of lost confidence in it now. Can anyone help? I don't want to go any farther with this project, especially if frogging is in it's future. I've had to do enough of that lately with most all of my projects, it seems, for various reasons.

 

TIA!

 

goldi

[kylee21]

what's the website to crochet magazine. i know that the instructions may not be there, but they may have a pic that i can see.

[NancyCA]

Here's a link to the mag online with pics..

 

Crochet Magazine

 

They are VERY cute!!

[goldi316]

Okay, after a whole lotta fooling around trying to find a way to get my pics into a shareable format (still working on it), I found this nifty little temporary solution to use to post a pic of my wip. If I get a chance before bedtime, I will try to get a better shot of my mitten-in-progress so those with more experience with these can tell me if it looks like I'm headed in the right direction in spite of my messed up stitch count.

 

Okay, let's see if this will work...

 

Okay again, for some reason it just doesn't seem to want to do what I want here, and I'm seriously running out of time, so here's the link instead:

 

http://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=1qk8bk

 

And I will have to wait until tomorrow night to set up another photo shoot, if need be. My weeknights always fly by too quickly and the "to-do" list never shrinks! <img border=0 src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/help.gif" />

 

goldi

[bythehook]

OK, I'll take a stab at this. I think you sc'd 42 around 32 sts because the cuff needs to be smaller than the hand part of the mitten. When you get to the skip 9 sts, you will just skip the 9 stitches, do not chain, and continue around as the pattern instructs. This will "pinch" the round together and leave a small hole 9 sts around, and a large hole with the remaining sts. I don't know what the pattern says next, but you will probably leave those 9 sts unworked and just work over the stitches in the larger part of the mitten. After the hand is complete, you will come back to the 9 sts and work them for the thumb.

 

Hope this helps. :f-1

[goldi316]

By golly I think she's got it! After reading what you wrote, Dot, and then reading carefully over the remaining part of the mitten pattern and studying the picture, it makes sense now.

 

Thanks to my extremely limited amount of time on the weeknights, I probably won't be able to get back to this until the weekend, but I feel much more confident in continuing with it now. <img border=0 src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/artist.gif" /> Thank you! <img border=0 src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/cheer.gif" />

 

goldi

[bythehook]

Great! I can't wait to see your finished mittens.