reading cable chart decrease?

[sweetpeaLee]

Dear wonderful members of KnittingHelp,

I am knitting a "Cabled Cape" pattern #19 of VogueKnitting Knit.1 Fall 2007 and it has a cable chart.

The pattern is knit from bottom up, decreasing to neck with cape knit flat.
Alternative even rows are purl. Normally there is a 10st repeat that ends the row with 10 st ending.
I have done alright until I came to a odd row that does "an indent" of 2 squares of graph paper, shifts the 10 st repeat by 2 st. inward from the otherwise right vertical margin of chart and ends with 8st at the left edge of chart.

So what is this? A decrease? Slip 2 st squares or not? I can do cables but I am new to reading cable charts. Sorry I can't scan the graph paper until later if you need it.

Thank you for any advice! Lee

[ArtLady1981]

When a chart "indents" on, let's say RS Row 9...this usually means that decreases are to be worked.


Here is a random chart I found in a knitting magazine. On Row 83, you were instructed to Bind Off 3 to begin the armhole shaping. The chart shows the absence of those 3 st. On WS Row 84, we were instructed to Bind Off 3 at the beginning of that row to correspond to Row 83.

As you can see by this chart, decreases will continue to be worked until the armhole is suitably shaped by Row 91! The chart reflects the absence of the decreased stitches by 'jogging' or 'indenting' as you work them out.

[ArtLady1981]

I've subscribed to VOGUE KNITTING for several years...my FALL 2007 issue was a SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S ISSUE. Pattern #19 isn't a Cabled Cape.

I'll keep looking.

Edited: ok, I found a CABLED CAPE in my issue, it is pattern #33...but the charts aren't indented, so I don't think I've found your pattern, have I?