Knitting For Baby, What Does That Letter Mean?
August 24th, 2008 | 
Author: You may be concerned about making your newly chosen baby knitting pattern. You have a plan of knitting for baby. Whose baby? It doesn’t matter, yours or there’s, as long as it is a baby. You have chosen a knitting for baby pattern, after careful consideration you have finally decided on the color and texture, you even got the right size of needles. So go for it!
What is your hesitation? Aren’t you excited?
Oooooooh, the knitting for baby pattern is intimidating you. It is a strange language of letters without words, p, k, co, yo, k2, k2tog, what are you to think?
Well let me tell you. It is really a basic language that can be learned in a single setting. You can go over to About.com and learn tons of knitting stuff.
P = purl
K= knit
Co= Cast on
Yo= yarn over
K2= knit two stitches
K2 tog= knit two stitches together
These are all just shorthand for being able to instruct you as to what to next to make the baby knitting pattern come together without being so longwinded you couldn’t possible keep your place. And once you get used to reading it becomes second nature, I promise.
No matter what pattern you have chosen to knit for baby, the author of the pattern will give you all the abbreviations used in the pattern and they will be written out in longhand so you will know each one. Usually if the pattern stitch is less than common, the author will even given you a demonstration as to how to perform that particular stitch. They recognize that the baby knitting patterns can sometimes be intimidating. So they do all they can to make it as easy and understandable as possible.
If you are still uncertain, find out who your knitting friends are, and check with them. Or go to a yarn shop, they usually offer knitting classes. At the very least take your knitting for baby pattern with you with your yarn and needles and let the people at the yarn shop show you how to make whatever stitch is troubling you.
Knitting for baby is one of the most wonderful pastimes there are. Don’t let anything stand in your way. Enjoy!
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How do you increase if the number of stiches is 133 and you need to increase 8 sts evenly and the number is uneven. 16.625 stitches per row. Patter #458 Bernat5 Baby Sport Staggedred Squares
Hi Vilma, Well I would imagine you would simply increase by eight stitches spaced out across your existing 133 stitches (evenly) What they mean is that you don’t want the increases to be all together, you want them to be spaced out over the already made stitches. That is what they mean by evenly, not “even number of stitches” So you will end up with 141 stitches once you have all the increases made. I hope that helps. Susan