[ SOA Project Index ] [ Esther's Knitting Page ]

Son Of A.R.A.N. Project

Part 6b: Instructions for Sports Weight Saddles

Copyright 1999 Janet Szabo. All rights reserved.

Here are the instructions for knitting the saddles in the sport weight yarn. The patterns are: Off-Center Trellis in the middle, and Right Twist on either side. I also have a chart for this.

Cast on 35 stitches.

Row 1:  P3, k2, p2, k6, p4, [k1, p1] three times, p4, k5, p3

Row 2:  K1, knit 2nd st, then first st, then slip both from needle, p4, 2/1 RPC,
        2/1 LPC, (k1, p1) twice, 2/1 RPC, 2/1 LC, p4, 2/1 RPC, p2, knit 2nd st,
        then first st, then slip both from needle, k1

Row 3 and all wrong-side rows:  Work the stitches as they present themselves
        (knit the knits and purl the purls).  

Row 4:  K1, knit 2nd st, then first st, then slip both from needle, p3, 2/1 RPC,
        p2, 2/1 LPC, k1, p1, 2/1 RPC, k1, p1, 2/1 LC, p2, 2/1 RPC, p3, knit 2nd
        st, then first st, then slip both from needle, k1

Row 6:  K1, knit 2nd st, then first st, then slip both from needle, p2, 2/1 RPC,
        p4, 2/1 LPC, 2/1 RPC, (k1, p1) twice, 2/1 LC, 2/1 RPC, p4, knit 2nd st,
        then first st, then slip both from needle, k1

Row 8:  K1, knit 2nd st, then first st, then slip both from needle, p2, k2, p6,
        2/2 RC, (k1, p1) 3 times, 2/2 BC, p5, knit 2nd st, then first st, then
        slip both from needle, k1

Row 10: K1, knit 2nd st, then first st, then slip both from needle, p2, 2/1 LPC,
        p4, 2/1 RPC, 2/1 LC, (k1, p1) twice, 2/1 RPC, 2/1 LPC, p4, knit 2nd st,
        then first st, then slip both from needle, k1

Row 12: K1, knit 2nd st, then first st, then slip both from needle, p3, 2/1 LPC,
        p2, 2/1 RC, k1, p1, 2/1 LPC, k1, p1, 2/1 RPC, p2, 2/1 LPC, p3, knit 2nd 
        st, then first st, then slip both from needle, k1

Row 14: K1, knit 2nd st, then first st, then slip both from needle, p4, 2/1 LPC,
        2/1 RC, (k1, p1) twice, 2/1 LPC, 2/1 RPC, p4, 2/1 LPC, p2, knit 2nd st,
        then first st, then slip both from needle, k1

Row 16: K1, knit 2nd st, then first st, then slip both from needle, p5, 2/2 LC,
        (k1, p1) 3 times, 2/2 LC, p6, k2, p2, knit 2nd st, then first st, then
        slip both from needle, p1

Repeat rows 1-16 until saddle is necessary length. Do not bind off, but place stitches on holder.


Last Updated: April 14, 1999
Page maintained by: Esther S. Bozak, ebozak@cs.oswego.edu
URL: http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~ebozak/knit/soa/part6b.html